The Stalking Moon

directed by Robert Mulligan
Category: "Western"
Year of Release:1968
Date Added:02/12/2009
Date Watched:02/11/2009
Description:Gregory Peck is Sam Varner, a retiring army scout. His troop rescues a white woman (Eva Marie Saint) who had been captured by Indians years before and who now has a son by the feared warrior Salvaje. Varner agrees to escort the woman and her son back to civilization, but when he realizes that she has nowhere to go and that Salvaje is pursuing, he asks her to come with him to his ranch to be the cook. The Indian follows, and the final half of the film shows Varner and a small group of people holed up in a cabin while Salvaje stalks them and picks them off one by one. In the end, Varner faces off against the warrior one-on-one and comes away wounded but alive. Only he, the woman and her son survive.
My Rating:8

Reviews for The Stalking Moon

Review - Stalking Moon, The

It had some plot issues — no man could be as invincible as Salvaje was portrayed. But the device of only showing him in fleeting glances as he moved though the brush was effective. The suspense kept building and although I knew Peck would win, still I was on the edge of my seat, figuratively.

I generally like Peck, but he wasn't entirely convincing as a scout.

Reviewed by Roger on 2009-02-12 07:00:44

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