Sick Product of a Sick System

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fantastic!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

I give this movie an E for effort - Mitchum plays an American who had escaped to Mexico in his youth after a violent episode and has grown up working for the local bandits controlling that part of the country. When sent to a US border town to negotiate a weapons deal, he breaks his leg and spends enough time in he US to realize he could make a life for himself with a brighter future - of course things go wrong. Based on a novel by Tom Lea, a forgotten writer of westerns, and staring along with Robert Mitchum in the romantic triangle is Gary Merrill as the local cavalry boss and Julie London as his unhappy wife. What makes it all interesting is the fact that the movie never quite "jells"- Mitchum tries his best against a cast of grade B actors and his performance mostly works. The worst performance is from Julie London who not only is dressed incongruously but looks and acts like a robot. The scenery is spectacular and is the winner in this movie. Add the use of over the top music, and this movie presages the Spaghetti Western.

This is a decent if not great Western the ploughs the familiar western fields of redemption. Robert Mitchum is Martin Brady an American who has grown up in Mexico but whom is now back. We witness Brady getting used to his new surroundings and the unexpected knowledge that comes with them, yet we also see him come to terms with the fact that the Americans are just as scheming as the Mexicans they think themselves superior to. Mitchum does reasonably well in this part though he does have a rather strange accent. He gives a good account of a brooding man coming to terms with him self and the political machinery of life. Unfortunately the supporting cast do not fare so well but some of this may well be to do with the sparse two dimensional characters. Again the story or the script does nothing to particularly lift this movie but they are not terrible either. So at the end of the day would I watch this movie again? Probably not unless there really was no alternative viewing. If you're a fan of the western give the movie an additional star.

The two main interests of this passable western: Mitchum is very cool (and almost blonde!), while his female pair is attractive and nice. Mitchum has a large and quite compact role, picturesque, and not a badly written one. He looked unusually ,unexpectedly well as gunman and smuggler that trades guns and silver for the Mexicans.The plot is in itself quite interesting. The Wonderful Country (1959) is a drama, an action drama set in a western dimension. The director obviously didn't find the fittest approach; while the film's name tells nothing about its content, though it's probably meant to be acidly ironic and disillusioned. For once at the westerns, I was interested in seeing a love story; but not much happens this way. The movie looks like an interesting exercise—like something much better could of been made with this content. But then again, most westerns may give this impression. The directing is, as I said, _uninventive, yet competent on its level. I mean, it keeps the film from looking ridiculous, involuntarily funny or something.Mitchum's part is certainly very likable, very well performed, and eminently enjoyable. It's almost like a study of Mitchum's aptitudes.A certain very virile and mysterious (i.e., rich in intuitive content and cognition) aspect of Mitchum's role reminded me of the Rourke of the '80s. In this western, Mitchum is as interesting, in the same way I mean, as was Rourke in the '80s.What the film needed were action and a pace.But, notwithstanding, interesting western.

Hi. I remember watching this movie (The Wonderful Country) when I was a young man. I have always wanted to buy it on DVD or VHS. It's like it never existed. Has anybody seen this movie anywhere? Robert Mitchum was great. The movie was filmed in Mexico and the scenery was fantastic. The music soundtrack is very good. If you have not seen it, you should. I am not sure who directed the movie, but it was well done. Good acting through out the movie. This movie must have been forgotten by everybody, since I cannot find anybody who knows about it. Robert Mitchum was one of the great actors who made many great movies. This one has been left out for DVD or VHS. Come on.