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© DR -L'HOMME SAUVAGE de Robert Mulligan-1968
07/02/2013 08:30
External Reviews
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Résumé
Après avoir passé vingt ans dans la cavalerie comme éclaireur, Sam Varner accomplit sa dernière mission avant de quitter l'armée.Il participe à la poursuite d'un groupe d'Apaches qui viennent de quitter leur réserve Parmi les indiens capturés, les soldats découvrent une femme blanche, Sarah Carver, traînant à ses côtés son fils métis de huit ans.Elle est trop effrayée pour en dire plus que son nom, mais les militaires se souviennent que neuf ans plus tôt,la famille Carver était tombée dans une embuscade et avait été massacrée.
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© DR -L'HOMME SAUVAGE de Robert Mulligan-1968 (p2)
07/02/2013 08:36
Nolan Clay et Eva Marie Saint
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L'Homme sauvage (The Stalking Moon)
est un film américain réalisé en 1968 par Robert Mulligan,
avec Gregory Peck et Eva Marie Saint
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Arizona 1881. Sam Varner a passé vingt ans de sa vie comme éclaireur d'un détachement militaire chargé de maintenir les Apaches dans leurs réserves. Sa dernière mission consiste à rattraper une bande d'Indiens qui a franchi la frontière.Parmi eux, il découvre une jeune femme blanche, Sarah, et son fils, un métis de huit ans. Sarah, prostrée, terrorisée, est la seule survivante d'une embuscade dans laquelle sa famille est tombée neuf ans auparavant.
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© DR -L'HOMME SAUVAGE de Robert Mulligan-1968 (p3)
07/02/2013 08:50
Fiche technique
Titre original : The Stalking Moon
Réalisation : Robert Mulligan
Scénario : Alvin Sargent et Wendell Mayes, d'après
le roman de Thoedore V. Olsen
Production : National General Pictures -
Alan J. Pakula/Mulligan production
Directeur de la photographie : Charles Lang
Direction artistique : Roland Anderson et Jack Poplin
Décors de plateau : Frank Tuttle
Musique : Fred Karlin
Genre : western
Durée : 104 minutes
Sortie aux États-Unis le 25 déc 1968
Sortie en France : 1969
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Cast
Gregory Peck : Sam Varner
Eva Marie Saint : Sarah Carver
Robert Forster : Nick Tana
Noland Clay : le garçon
Nathaniel Narcisco : Salvaje
Russell Thorson : Ned
Frank Silvera : major
Lonny Chapman : Purdue
Lou Frizzell : le chef de gare
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© DR -L'HOMME SAUVAGE de Robert Mulligan-1968 (p4)
07/02/2013 08:57
Robert Forster (le prêteur sur caution dans JACKY BROWN)
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Outstanding Western.
Author: jack.hunter
8 March 2000
I found this to be a taut and exciting western. The film builds scene by scene to give the characters depth and to instill a sense of unknown dread. The music soundtrack is superb in enhancing this sense of dread. The film puts to good use the concept that what cannot be seen is sometimes more frightening than what can be seen. This concept is used for terrific effect with the psychotic Indian who is the stalker. Peck, Saint and Forster give outstanding performances and create realistic characters that we can care about. I believe this to be one of the finest westerns made and consider it be a very underappreciated film by critics.
Dark shadows and unseen danger
Author: NewEnglandPat from Virginia
2 April 2003
This western was released when Hollywood was about finished with the genre and the film went largely unnoticed. However, the movie is well photographed, with good work by Gregory Peck, although Eva Marie Saint doesn't have much to do in the way of dialogue.Peck is a cavalry scout who quits the military to ranch in New Mexico and takes Saint and her half-breed son with him. Peck and Saint eventually turn up the romantic flames, but her boy is the object of a deadly game of search and destroy. The lad's father, a murderous Apache warrior, wants to reclaim him, and perhaps kill the woman for deserting him. The film has plenty of suspense, creepy shadows, and eerie noises in the dark and at times seems more like a mystery than a western. Most of the action occurs at picture's end, and Fred Karlin's plaintive yet thrilling score builds up the tension as Peck and Salvaje edge towards their showdown.
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© DR -L'HOMME SAUVAGE de Robert Mulligan-1968 (p5)
08/02/2013 04:33
Half Western , Half Thriller, Sparse Dialogue and Spectacular Scenery
Author: annesaso from Canada
5 January 2006
Not even listed as one of Gregory Peck's better films, I consider this to be one of the most exciting Westerns I have ever seen. The Stalking Moon, Jeremiah Johnson, High Noon,.. all three are Western Classics.
The movie begins slowly but the sense of foreboding builds throughout the film as Sam and his adopted family wait for the inevitable. Eva Marie Saint portrays an abused woman with spare dignity and understated grace, the little boy is great and Gregory Peck is a formidable presence, growing stronger in character and determination as his feelings for the woman and her son develop. Nathaniel Narsisco, as the Stalker is realistically and excruciatingly frightening as he silently tracks his prey.
Although almost 40 years old the movie holds up well even when compared to films like Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.I have just read Roger Ebert's condemnation of this film and cannot believe that he and I differ so greatly as to its relative merits. How ever this is the man who loved "over the top" Donald Pleasance in "Will Penny" so one should not be surprised.
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