The Rare Breed
|
List Price: Our Price: $5.36 You Save: $4.63 (46%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $3.97 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of The Rare Breed
Movie Review: Fair but not Good
Summary: 3 Stars
This film has some first rate talent. Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O'Hara are first rate stars and they made first rate westerns but this is not one of them. It is merely passable.
Maureen O'Hara plays a British widow whose husband was a cattle breeder in Herefordshire. They have brought their prize Hereford bull to the American west in an effort to both make money and improve the wild longhorn cattle being raised in the American west. The two women are about the only ones who have faith in the breed. Everyone else seems to think they cannot survive the harsh conditions in America.
Jimmy Stewart plays a cowboy hired to get the bull to its purchaser. He is also hired to steal the bull for someone else. When he is unexpectedly accompanied by women his plans go awry because they are very strong willed and because he is beginning to fall in love with Maureen.
In time, even the women lose faith in the bull but Jimmy Stewart does have faith. Good triumphs over evil and faithfulness pays off. That is the old western formula. The part of the formula that is missing is excitement and interest. All in all, it is just barely passable.
Movie Review: The Rare Breed
Summary: 3 Stars
This is not the usual "shoot 'em up" type of western. It is very entertaining if one goes into it understanding that. Stewart does a good job of balancing between the comedy and the cowboy.
Maureen O'Hara good as the somewhat stuffy English owner of the "Rare Breed". Light and fun, enough suspense to keep the viewers attention
Movie Review: Too cosy by far
Summary: 2 Stars
The Rare Breed is one of those lukewarm westerns from James Stewart's sixties' `loveable' phase when he abandoned the dark determination of the Anthony Mann films to go for a more Disneyfied comic approach. Indeed, the film feels more like a typical Disney family comedy of the 60s than a Western, an impression not dispelled by Jack Elam's comedy villain, Juliet Mills' and Don Galloway's juvenile leads and, most terrifying of all, Brian Keith in bushy red wig and beard with outrageous `Scottish' accent wooing Maureen O'Hara. Throw in the standard John (then still billed as Johnny) Williams Western score, and you've got an inoffensively bland but utterly unmemorable Sunday afternoon movie.
The 2.35:1 widescreen transfer is more than acceptable, but the fullframe trailer has clearly seen better days.
Movie Review: Don't Waste Your Time
Summary: 1 Stars
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.