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A 70-year-old Joel McCrea emerged from retirement to make one last film - a simple unpretentious western about a hunt for a lone black stallion on the Montana-Alberta border in 1925. Ironically, McCrea was in Hollywood just two years after the setting of this film starting out in a series of uncredited modern dress roles.
A family Western set in 1925, Montana, Canada border, about a veteran cowboy : Joel McCrea's final movie at his 69 year-old , and an Indian little boy : teen Mina, dealing with their relationships and the hunt for a valuable horse. Along the way they confront a feared Grizzly Bear that is causing wreak havoc.
Joel McCrea came out of retirement to do this, and one can only wonder why. It seems likely it was either the chance to spend a lot of time on horseback in astonishing mountain countryside (which one would imagine he'd done plenty of times before this), or he was too nice to turn down a friend.
I can't get over it. I thought "The Earthling" would never receive a decent competitor, but here it is.
My daughter loves horses and is 6 years old. She and I watched this movie and were delighted the entire time.
This has been described as a Western but I tend to disagree feeling it has more of an affinity with the "wilderness"movies and TV series that were being made around the same time ,such as Adventures of the Wilderness Family and Grizzly Adams.It is a simple tale of an ex-rodeo star turned rancher (Joel McCrea)who ,joined by a young native American boy (Nika Mina)sets out to capture the last wild mustang in Montana ,during the 1920's .
After watching Mustang Country, I'm convinced that Joel McCrea came out of retirement to do this film because he didn't want his last work on cinema to be Cry Blood Apache. This was a western done six years before in which Joel McCrea made a small appearance as an older version of the character that star Jody McCrea played.
I did not know that this movie existed until happening upon it on AMC. It was very pleasant to see Joel McCrea back in action.
I had accidentally seen this movie at about the same time of the day--very early morning getting ready to run all day errands and dreading it.I owned horses for many years and know when a man is riding and when he is just filling the saddle.
