6/10
Warm-Hearted 1950s Family Film
14 March 2024
Although this one (20th CF) was obviously made for a double bill, I class it as an "A" given the production contributors, viz.: Delmer Daves, Dudley Nichols, Sol Kaplan, Lucien Ballard, Lionel Newman, Ray Kellogg; and the cast inc. Dale Robertson (who inexplicably resists initially the gorgeous and very ripe Joanne Dru!), Robert Horton, Richard Boone, Walter Brennan (in his usual Gramps role as an increasingly annoying ol' coot persisting in poaching, but he has a very moving death scene)...

Few anxious moments, despite the presence of the always ambivalently menacing Boone; a nice little "family" film reminiscent of those gentler 1950s TV series that those of us of a certain age grew up with. I enjoyed it a lot.

Once again, I must credit UK's Talking Pictures channel for finding this virtually "lost" movie.
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