THE STALKING MOON
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 4:46 pm
I saw a write up on this recently but can't find it in search or on TCM. Anyway, I DVR'd it around 2:30 this a.m. on The Western Channel, and thoroughly enjoyed it this morning around 8:00 before my neighborhood woke up.
That other writeup compared it to Trooper Hook with Joel McCrae and Barbara Stanwyck. It is very similar in some ways, but different in others. In The Stalking Moon, the Indian is chasing them to get his son back, but in . . . Hook, her husband was unaware she was alive. In Hook, McCrae is his usual lovable, talkative self and Stanwyck finally comes around and explains her predicament. In . . . Moon not until nearly the end of the movie does Eva Marie Saint give any explanation.
Big, quiet, but sensitive Gregory Peck senses something is off kilter, but knows better than to question this poor woman who has been a captive for a little more than 10 years. It's obvious to him that she has endured a lot, besides having the little boy. Also he cannot bond with the boy at all, although he does try, as McCrae was able to do.
There is quite a bit of shooting, killing and dying, but this was from the 50's and nothing is in your face - just enough sound and facial expression for you to guess what is happening off screen.
This is a good action film with a lot of great scenery, and as I said, you have to think while watching. If I ever learn how to get movies off my permanent DVR tape and onto a DVD disk, I will revisit it probably some time next year.
Besides Peck, Eva Marie Saint, and Robert Forster, the other participants have very few lines (including the lead actors), it is a very quiet movie with limited dialog, but because of that, you are happy to watch the movie to learn what will happen next.
Anne
That other writeup compared it to Trooper Hook with Joel McCrae and Barbara Stanwyck. It is very similar in some ways, but different in others. In The Stalking Moon, the Indian is chasing them to get his son back, but in . . . Hook, her husband was unaware she was alive. In Hook, McCrae is his usual lovable, talkative self and Stanwyck finally comes around and explains her predicament. In . . . Moon not until nearly the end of the movie does Eva Marie Saint give any explanation.
Big, quiet, but sensitive Gregory Peck senses something is off kilter, but knows better than to question this poor woman who has been a captive for a little more than 10 years. It's obvious to him that she has endured a lot, besides having the little boy. Also he cannot bond with the boy at all, although he does try, as McCrae was able to do.
There is quite a bit of shooting, killing and dying, but this was from the 50's and nothing is in your face - just enough sound and facial expression for you to guess what is happening off screen.
This is a good action film with a lot of great scenery, and as I said, you have to think while watching. If I ever learn how to get movies off my permanent DVR tape and onto a DVD disk, I will revisit it probably some time next year.
Besides Peck, Eva Marie Saint, and Robert Forster, the other participants have very few lines (including the lead actors), it is a very quiet movie with limited dialog, but because of that, you are happy to watch the movie to learn what will happen next.
Anne