Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

gkhege I have watched this movie many times over the years and it gets no better or worse. The scenery stills the show while no one believes for one moment these two old men could run over fifty yards and then fight someone half their age. The language is not for children or in my case, old people. This movie, like most westerns, raises one my pet peeves,how can everyone have such perfect teeth!

kelkeg-42763 I have watched this movie so many times I can pretty much recite it. The mountains and other scenery are fantastic. So many funny comments - Black Feet god Dammit. Ya pork eatin frog turd.

dworldeater The Mountain Men was a western vehicle for acclaimed actor and legend Charlton Heston . Also starring Brian Keith, a talented actor in his own right . Heston and Keith wander the great American landscape , drink a lot of liquor , murder various critters, Blackfoot Indians and the English language . In a skirmish with said Blackfoot Indians , Heston gets a squaw and her husband and chief is not happy the white man stole his source of poon tang. Running Moon much prefers the company of the bearded Heston and conflict and action ensues. Heston and Keith are trappers that chase beaver and are real gnarly dudes that is much missed in modern Hollywood cinema . The Mountain Men is beautifully shot and ( for the most part) well acted .My only complainant is the casting of white actors for the Indian characters, which is acceptable for a western in 1950. (but not for 1980) Even so this is a very enjoyable and manly western adventure.

bkoganbing It's always good to have a movie star father and young Fraser Clarke Heston was able to get father Charlton to star in a film adaptation of his script about The Mountain Men. Of course Dad was able to get friend Brian Keith into the film as well, they had worked together previously on a western called Arrowhead back in the salad days of both of them.Charlton Heston has always been generous with praise of his colleagues so I don't think he begrudged Brian Keith a bit for totally stealing this film away from the Heston clan. Keith's portrayal of the rollicking, hard drinking, hard cussing, mountain man pal of Charlton Heston is the highlight of the film. It's the main reason to see The Mountain Men.Another reason is the grand location cinematography in the Grand Teton mountains in Wyoming where this was filmed. This in fact is where the Kit Carsons, Jim Bridgers, Thomas Fitzpatricks and the rest of that hardy breed of men worked at their lonely occupation of trapping beaver pelts for sale.They were indeed a hardy bunch. Unlike the post Civil War west these guys were in fact outnumbered by the Indians who with their bows and arrows were actually possessing weapon superiority to the muzzle loading single shot muskets the trappers had. You learned Indian ways and skills of all kinds or you did not survive.The plot of this film has Heston rescuing an Indian princess, Victoria Racimo, a Crow away from her Blackfeet captors and earning the undying hatred of Stephen Macht, a chief among the Blackfeet. Very similar to the plot of Robert Redford's Jeremiah Johnson where Redford was also an object of Indian vengeance.This film marked the farewell performance of that grand character actor Victor Jory. Jory plays a Crow chief who may look old but seems to have found Viagara long before the FDA approved it.Unfortunately for The Mountain Men it got caught up in the wake of the approval for Jeremiah Johnson. It suffers unfairly in comparison to the Robert Redford film.Yet The Mountain Men can definitely stand on its own critically and every other way. And Jeremiah does not have the fabulous Brian Keith in it.