IMDb plot summary: A sympathetic retired army scout takes-in a white woman and her half-Apache son, not knowing that the boy's father, a murderous renegade Apache, is after them.
Directed by Robert Mulligan. Starring Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster, and Noland Clay.
This was more engaging than a lot of westerns I've seen (and 1968 especially seems to have just an endless supply of them), but, like all of them, their focus is always on the least interesting characters. Gregory Peck saving the day isn't even half as interesting to me as the interaction between the two Apache/white mixed characters, or the story of Eva Marie Saint's survival after being captured. But I did appreciate the oddly quiet tone for the story, given how much danger the characters were in -- it helped put the emphasis on them as people rather than archetypes.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Stalking Moon > Blow Out
The Stalking Moon < Thor
The Stalking Moon < State and Main
The Stalking Moon < Letters from Iwo Jima
The Stalking Moon > The Tourist
The Stalking Moon < A Foreign Affair
The Stalking Moon > Along Came a Spider
The Stalking Moon > Neighbors
The Stalking Moon > L.A. Confidential
The Stalking Moon > Kung Fury
The Stalking Moon > No eres tu, soy yo
Final spot: #1376 out of 3033.
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