The Stalking Moon | 
 enlarge | Director: Robert Mulligan
Actors: Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Forster
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 2954
Format: Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 109
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1000036296
UPC: 883929005079
EAN: 0883929005079
ASIN: B000QRI1GW
Theatrical Release Date: 1968
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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Product Description
A veteran U.S. cavalry man retires then runs across a woman and her catatonic son escaping enslavement. He cares for them but must still face their captors.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating: G UPC: 883929005079 Manufacturer No: 1000036296
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A scout in the old Southwest (Gregory Peck) undertakes to protect a white woman (Eva Marie Saint) and her half-breed son from the Apache warrior--the woman's captor-husband of 10 years--who wants them back. The scout is a man of estimable courage and resources (again, Gregory Peck), but the mostly unseen Apache is a veritable monster of determination, cunning, and bloodthirstiness: Peck and his two charges doom entire communities to extermination just by passing through the neighborhood. This fierce amalgam of Western and horror movie was the last of seven collaborations between director Robert Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula, of which To Kill a Mockingbird was the peak. The Stalking Moon isn't peak material, but it's a demonically effective palm-sweater, and fascinating as a prelude to Pakula's own breakout as director of the great paranoid trilogy Klute, The Parallax View, and All the President's Men. Robert Forster has an early role as a fellow, part-Indian scout. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Salking Moon September 30, 2008
Finally a dvd of one of Gregory Pecks best westerns. It's sharp, crisp & great scenery.
The Stalking Moon September 28, 2008
This is a cracking litle Western. I sat through it twice when it first came out in 1968/9. You can feel yourself digging deeper into your seat in scenes where Salvaje is either immenent or on screen. Peck unplays the scout who reluctantly takes on the woman and her son unkowing of their true situation. Scenes involving him and the lovely Eva Marie Saint are played low key yet are suffused with emotion. There's no sham heroics - Peck as Sam Varner is thoroughly professional in his approach to snaring the deadly Apache who always seems two moves ahead of the game. The music by Fred Karlin underscores the tension without tipping you off to what may come next. 10/10
"Gregory Peck Series ... The Stalking Moon (1968) ... Warner Bros." September 22, 2008
Warner Bros. presents "THE STALKING MOON" (25 December 1968) (109 mins/Colo) (Dolby digitally remastered) -- Our story line and plot, "The Stalking Moon", adapted from a novel by Theodore V. Olsen, opens in the Arizona of the Old West, as the U.S. calvary is in the process of relocating Native Americans to reservations --- As army scout Sam Varner (Gregory Peck) is mustering out and retire to a farm in New Mexico --- Varner takes pity on a white woman Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint) and her half-breed son recently rescued from indians, and invites them to join him. He does this even knowing the child's father is a feared and murderous Apache and that sooner or later a showdown is almost inevitable --- Gregory Peck is still a screen presence in middle age and impressive as the army scout --- 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 --- Nick Tana (Robert Forster) is good as a member of Peck's party that he raised from childhood, who comes to his aid in fending off his enemy --- Most of the fighting and gun play occur at the film's end, and although the story takes its time getting there, the final scenes are exciting and would please any wrangler riding the trail to any good western --- One final word, this is Peck at his best.
Under the production staff of:
Robert Mulligan - Director
Alan J. Pakula - Producer
Wendell Mayes - Screenwriter
Theodore V. Olsen - Book Author
Alvin Sargent - Screenwriter
Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer
Fred Karlin - Composer (Music Score)
Aaron Stell - Editor
Roland Anderson - Art Director
Jack Poplin - Art Director
John S. Poplin - Art Director
Frank A. Tuttle - Set Designer
Seth Banks - Costume Designer
Grace Harris - Costume Designer
Dorothy Jeakins - Costume Designer
Jack Solomon - Sound/Sound Designer
Del Armstrong - Makeup
Frank Prehoda - Makeup
Don Kranze - First Assistant Director
SPECIAL FEATURES:
BIOS:
1. Gregory Peck:
Date of Birth 5 April 1916 - La Jolla, California
Date of Death: 12 June 2003 - Los Angeles, California
the cast includes:
Gregory Peck ... Sam Varner
Eva Marie Saint ... Sarah Carver
Robert Forster ... Nick Tana
Noland Clay ... Boy
Russell Thorson ... Ned
Frank Silvera ... Major
Lonny Chapman ... Purdue
Lou Frizzell ... Stationmaster (as Lou Firzell)
Henry Beckman ... Sgt. Rudabaugh
Charles Tyner ... Dace
Richard Bull ... Doctor
Sandy Brown Wyeth ... Rachel (as Sandy Wyeth)
Joaquin Martinez ... Julio
Boyd 'Red' Morgan ... Stage Driver Shelby (as Red Morgan)
Nathaniel Narcisco ... Salvaje
Richard Farnsworth
James Olson ... Cavalry Officer
Hats off and thanks to Les Adams (collector/guideslines for character identification), Chuck Anderson (Webmaster: The Old Corral/B-Westerns.Com), Boyd Magers (Western Clippings), Bobby J. Copeland (author of "Trail Talk"), Rhonda Lemons (Empire Publishing Inc) and Bob Nareau (author of "The Real Bob Steele") as they have rekindled my interest once again for B-Westerns and Serials --- If you're into the memories of B-Westerns with high drama, this is the one you've been anxiously waiting for --- please stand up and take a bow Western Classics --- all my heroes have been cowboys!
Total Time: 109 mins on DVD ~ Warner Home Video ~ (8/26/2008)
 How can you make a flat fullscreen DVD? September 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not really a review, since I'm not buying it. I already bought a Spanish DVD more than a year ago of "The Stalking Moon", but the ratio was 1.33, not 2.35 as it should, since this is a movie filmed in Panavision. So I'm not paying to have a third of the film. Which seems to be what is being offered now in the US. And it quite a pity, since it is a very good, underrated movie, by a great underrated American filmmaker, Robert Mulligan.
Miguel Marias
Great movie--DVD missing scene selection August 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wonderful movie! I loved the way the silence brooding over the Southwest landscape is reflected in the film: in Varner's strong, stoic character; in the taciturn scowl of the Indian boy; in the silent menace of Salvaje (correct spelling?)Two things, though, about the DVD. First, if you've seen the movie on TV, the first and last parts are usually shown in widescreen, but the majority of the movie is shown full-screen. Not here! The whole movie is shown in widescreen--making for a sharp, luscious picture. That's the good news (the very good news!). The bad news is . . . there's no scene selection option on the DVD menu! (Why did they leave that out? I do not know.) So,great movie--good (but not great) DVD.
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