If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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.

Was surprised to view this Robert Mitchum film where he stars as a Mexican who was raised in Mexico named Martin Brady. Martin meets up with Julie London, (Helen Colton) who is married to Gary Merrill,(Major Stark Colton) and has a hot affair with Helen. There is a murder and Martin Brady kills this man and has a bounty on his head for two-hundred dollars and runs back to Mexico to escape the law. Albert Dekker, (Texas Ranger Capt. Rucker) along with Jackie Oakie, (Travis Hyte) give an outstanding performance. There is a very romantic relationship between Martin Brady and Helen Colton and they both meet together when Helen Colton's husband, Major Stark Colton is wounded and Martin tries to bring him to safety. Excellent film from 1959, great photography and a great story. Gary Merrill was married to Betty Davis in the real world. Great film, Enjoy!

This movie was more accurate then I think people know. There was a troop of black army cavalry in Arizona and they did comport them selves very well. The film was filmed in Arizona which is breath taking and not in Texas which is OK. Robert Mitchem was at his best in this type of roll. I loved him when he played a roll of the under played good guy. Julie London should have sung a song in it but of course she couldn't. The film had a very good story line and moved along which I find films in this day and age don't. I'm wondering if the film had any historic background to it. It would seem that back in the day when it should have taken place there would have been a person like Mr. Brady.

The Wonderful Country, the Big Land, the Young Land, The Big Country . . . there were so many westerns during the late 1950s with strikingly similar titles that you needed a score card to keep them all straight. One of the least remembered - though that's a shame - is director Robert Parrish's (from a fine novel by Tom Lea, himself a forgotten figure but a western novelist worth rediscovering by buffs) yarn about a rangy American (Robert Mitchum) who has been hiding out in Mexico, returns to U.S. soil, and discovers that he's virtually a man without a country - he doesn't really belong anywhere. This had to be one of the films that influenced Sergio Leone, and his Man With No Name character played by Clint Eastwood, in that I'm not sure there was an anti-hero wrapped in a serape before Mitchum in this movie. No mule for him, though - he rides a magnificent horse, and his relationship to it - symbolic as well as realistic - will remind you of a later, greater western, Lonely Are the Brave (1962) with Kirk Douglas and 'Whiskey.' Here, the metaphor is kept more subtle. Julie London appears as the sexually frustrated wife of an army commander (Gary Merrill), and while she's certainly beautiful enough for the role, her acting is slightly more stilted and wooden than that of Kim Novak. One neat bit of trivia: This is the only film to co-star the great athlete Satchel Paige, as a 'buffalo soldier' - and here's yet another innovation, for you'd have to search hard and long to find an earlier Hollywood film that depicted members of the black army of the west. Overall, a very good show - not too much action, but gorgeous color and music,, characterizations, and overall atmosphere.