Amazon.com: A very offbeat subject gives this Western its beefy flavor: English lady Maureen O'Hara brings a prize Hereford bull to the Wild West, where she plans to introduce its hardy bloodline into longhorn country. Cattle puncher James Stewart finds the idea suspect, but he likes this redhead, so he manages to tag along through stampede, gunfight, and blizzard. Director Andrew V. McLaglen generally steers a pleasing course, although the movie occasionally stumbles between brawling comedy and western drama. One stunt sequence, a run of longhorns through a desert canyon, qualifies as a hair-raiser. Brian Keith, wearing a gigantic red beard, does a Scots accent as a cattle baron, and veteran cowhands Ben Johnson and Jack Elam are around to lend atmosphere. The big bull's name is Vindicator, and he obeys whenever Juliet Mills whistles "God Save the Queen"--did we mention this is a very offbeat subject for a Western? --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good Story
I enjoyed this movie a lot. If you like the actors James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara, you will like this movie as well. It is a heartwarming western that I truly enjoyed.
Rating: - rare breed
excellent condition, thought it was a vcr though, and took forever to get...maybe I was just anxious.. would shop there again AAA+++
Rating: - Far Country
I bought 6 movies all westerns with Jimmy Stuart. In my opinion the best actor over all in any type of movie. You can't go wrong getting anything with jimmy in it. Also you get many other great actors supporting him, GO for it, I did and loved them all.
Rating: - Don't Waste Your Time
I don't know where to start with this miserable piece of dreck. You have to be, HAVE TO BE , a diehard Jimmie Stewart or Maureen O'Hara fan to sit through this. Brian Keith's performance / Scottish accent is so laughable, I'm surprised he ever showed his face again after making this movie. The whole film feels like it was made without benefit of a script or a director. We'll just stick Stewart and O'Hara in this, wink at the camera and that will be enough to make everybody happy. HAHAHAHAHA, don't waste your time on this.
Rating: - Maureen O'Hara in a very different type of western
THE RARE BREED certainly lives up to it's title. A western drama with the emphasis on character and not the typical mix of "guns and cowboys". Maureen O'Hara reunited with her "McLintock!" director Andrew V. McLaglen and her "Parent Trap" co-star Brian Keith for this oddball combination of western thrills and human drama.
Martha Price (Maureen O'Hara) and her teenaged daughter Hilary (Juliet Mills) have arrived in America with their prized Hereford bull, in an attempt to cross-breed it with the traditional long-horn. She is met with resistance by bulldogger Sam Burnett (James Stewart), ... Read More
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