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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 exerciselike 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.
score 7/10
Cristi_Ciopron 21 December 2007
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