Fourth in the series of westerns director Anthony Mann made with James Stewart, "The Far Country", while not the best of them, is still hugely entertaining. Stewart's cattleman is something of a walk in the park for him, (there's nothing here to tax him as an actor despite the taciturn nature of his character), but he's backed by an excellent supporting cast that includes Ruth Roman and Corinne Calvet as the two women vying for Stewart's affection, Walter Brennan and Jay C. Flippen as sidekicks and John McIntire, (excellent) and Robert J. Wilke principal among the villains. The always reliable Borden Chase did the first-rate screenplay and William Daniels was the DoP while the Canadian locations are as much the star of the picture as Mr Stewart.
Review of The Far Country
