The Wild and the Innocent
6.3 / 10
84 minutes
1959-05-27
English
US
Actors :
Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Jim Backus, Sandra Dee, George Mitchell, Peter Breck, Strother Martin, Wesley Marie Tackitt, Betty Harford, Mel Leonard, Lillian Adams, Val Benedict, Jim Sheppard, Ed Stroll
Description
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all manner of trouble in town, and Murphy has to shoot the sheriff to rescue Dee from her job as a dancehall girl.
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Reviews
John Chard
5/16/2024, 3:22:24 PM
The young, the old and the restless! The Wild and the Innocent is directed by Jack Sher and Sher co-writes the screenplay with Sy Gomberg. It stars Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Sandra Dee, Jim Backus, George Mitchell and Strother Martin. A CinemaScope/Eastman Color production, the music is by Hans J. Salter and cinematography by Harold Lipstein. Plot has Murphy as young mountain...
drystyx
4/3/2023, 4:45:21 PM
This is a different sort of Western than what we usually get. We often get "non credible character in incredible situations" or "credible characters in incredible situations". What we get here is "credible characters in CREDIBLE situations", and yet we still get adventure and excitement out of the every day events that escalate into life and death struggles. This movie has a lot of charm, and s...