Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

A Brilliant Conflict

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

I wanted to like this movie, but it was awful! It was poorly written and poorly acted. Probably the only reason it got made was that Charleton Heston agreed to act in it. And probably the only reason he agreed to act in it, was because his son wrote it. There are some historical accuracies since it was drawn from the book of the same name which is considered an accurate account of that time.If you want a historically accurate story from that time, read the book called Morning River and its sequel, Coyote Summer by W. Michael Gear. Too bad those books have not been made into a movie.This movie was embarrassingly bad!!!

I had to review this, if only for the summary.Joking aside, a peculiar movie, don't really know what to make of it. Plays for the most part as harmless family fun accompanied by a playful soundtrack. Very nice scenery to look at, cinematography is pretty good all the way, except lighting on some scenes felt a bit unnatural.Even tho it feels like a family comedy, there are a lot of strong scenes and brutal, bloody violence. May not be that extreme on today's standards, but back in the 80's a scene where a man get's his head chopped off was quite a lot to stomach.The movie has a some real old school stunts, might not be a good idea to watch this if you're easily shocked by western style stunts involving horses. Or dogs, as there is a scene where Heston battles with wolves, nothing dramatic, but the wolves/dogs get hit with a few thrown objects. There's also a couple of stunt scenes where it looks as if the stuntman really gets hurt.Old fashioned, light hearted fun, which sadly is ruined by too much violence. Don't know how accurate it is historically, but as a European, I don't think the movie makes everything quite as black and white as it could. "White men" are not portrayed all flawless. Disagreements seem to be more about horses and women this time.To justify the summary, there is a lot of old men fooling around with young Indian women, which does feel a bit awkward and corny at times. The men also hunt beaver, so there you have it. Pun intended.

An offbeat "western",with very crude language,a scene of sodomy ,much violence .The reason why you would watch this Heston project is the splendor of the Wyoming landscapes ;the director almost make us believe his heroes have found their Eldorado ,their "Beavers Valley".Much more eventful than "Jeremiah Johnson" ,"Mountain men" came too late ,at a time westerns were overshadowed by sci-fi.The squaw displays woman's lib before its time .Her character is not very plausible though.It's hard to believe she speaks "their" language so well;and anyway her (Indian) husband does speak English too .There's a good use of Brian Keith's character and the last picture is really original and moving.

This movie is extremely enjoyable if you don't take it too seriously. From the beautiful scenery of the opening to the wondrous musical score at the finish (and throughout), I had a highly enjoyable viewing experience. One of my favorite movies, mostly because of Kieth's(Frapp) and Heston's(Tyler's) comical relationship and dialouge. Yes, the plot is simple and unoriginal, the indians are white actors and drop like flies in battle, but the cinematography is glorious in nearly every scene, the movie works quite well as a "period piece" and the relationships between the characters are fun and believable. I found it strange that in what seems like half the scenes the characters are walking or running through freezing mountain streams and rivers. Without a warm fire nearby they would have suffered from frostbite, and yet Tyler runs through a mountain stream in the winter!A high point is the scene where Frapp and Tyler are reunited unexpectedly in a snowy meadow after Tyler thought he saw Frapp killed. Pure joy! The movie weaves drama and comedy together into a fine fun time. How can anyone not enjoy Brian Kieth's performance? If you like the outdoors and action, by all means you'll love this fun romp. Just don't take it too seriously!