Excellent, a Must See

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

This script is as exciting as watching paint dry. I'm glad I didn't sit through it in a movie theater in '68. It's as slow as a story can be. Then there is the illogic. I reckon they are called plot holes. The characters don't behave as one would expect. For example, why would Salvaje stalk the party alone and not bring his braves?

I thought that the song goes it's only a paper moon. Just kidding, but this disappointing film may have very well needed paper added to it.The dialogue is limited. I can understand that because the Eva Marie Saint part calls for a woman who had been kidnapped by the Indians years before and had a child with the chief.Found by the army and it's scout, Gregory Peck, the wife knows that her husband shall be on her tail and immediately flees with Peck. They are pursued all over and the bodies begin piling up wherever the Indian goes in his pursuit of the Saint character.The picture eventually comes as a cat and mouse venture between the Indian and Peck. With all that shooting occurring between them in the forest, I thought I was back in "Duel in the Sun."

It's supposed to be slow initially, this is the Old West in the 1880s. But the climax and ending are very exciting, the Indian moves through the brush with such speed and determination. First time I saw this in the 70s I was on the edge of my seat. Indian renegades were vengeful at losing their homeland and families to the Whites, they used stealth and native wisdom of plants, the terrain to stay alive whilst the U.S. Army chased them down relentlessly into oblivion. The movie is now on DVD since Aug 26, 2008 and fans can buy it in the DVD format, I am happy to say. Greg Peck, in one of his best, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster all have credible roles in this adaptation of the story by Theodore Olsen, I have the book too. In a similar vein, Burt Lancaster played a renegade in the movie Apache,surviving the long journey to Florida and back after the surrender of Geronimo at Skeleton Canyon in 1886. Yes, there was a renegade Apache called Massai, and Massai Point is an area within the Chiricahua National Monument, southeast of Tucson AZ. Check it out for authentic feeling of the Apache environment. Terribly Disappointing writes one reviewer, yet he enthuses over his 10 paragraphs of highlights in the movie. So, viewers can disregard any negatives, this is a first rate Western movie, very memorable, now in my Western collection at the front. Comment from Malcolm in Toronto 5th September 2008

From the same folks who brought you To Kill a Mockingbird, a good western thriller The Stalking Moon blends old west action with Alfred Hitchcock type suspense.Gregory Peck is an old army scout who helped rescue captive white woman Eva Marie Saint and her son Noland Clay by one of the Apache chiefs. The father isn't about to give up his son and he pursues Peck all the way to his ranch after he quit the cavalry. The last 40% of the film deals with Peck and his ranch guests being stalked by a clever and dangerous Indian opponent.The film itself touches on themes used in both The Searchers and Two Rode Together by John Ford and the fine Joel McCrea-Barbara Stanwyck western, Trooper Hook. But director Robert J. Mulligan took his style cues from Alfred Hitchcock. We don't ever see the opponent except in long shot right up to the very end. We only know him from what is said about Nathaniel Narciso from what is said and the death and destruction in his wake. The anticipation is all the more terrifying.Western and suspense, The Stalking Moon is a nice blend of film genres and fans of Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint will be pleased.