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The Wonderful Country is a 1959 American Technicolor Western film based (with substantial changes) on Tom Lea's 1952 novel of the same name that was produced by Robert Mitchum's DRM Production company in Mexico. Mitchum stars along with Julie London. Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige plays a soldier in the film, and Lea has a cameo as a barber.
The review added: "Neither Brady nor anyone else in the book is a successfully developed character, but with all its weaknesses 'The Wonderful Country' is still a western plus. What is extra comes in author Lea's fine descriptive writing, a love for the West that is conveyed with grace and dignity, an authentic sense of place." [2]
In 1959, Mitchum appeared in Robert Aldrich's thriller The Angry Hills as an American war correspondent entrusted with a list of Greek resistance leaders during World War II, [240] before starring in his third DRM production, The Wonderful Country.
The Wonderful Country Robert Parrish Robert Mitchum , Julie London , Gary Merrill , Albert Dekker , Charles McGraw , Satchel Paige , Anthony Caruso , Mike Kellin , Víctor Manuel Mendoza , Jay Novello , John Banner
Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) was an American actor who appeared in over 110 films and television series over the course of his career. He is ranked 23rd on the American Film Institute 's list of the 50 greatest American screen legends of all time . [ 1 ]
London's 35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the female lead in numerous Westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in The Fat Man (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in Saddle the Wind (1958), with Gary Cooper in Man of the West (1958) and with Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (1959).
It's a Wonderful Life had a big budget for the time ($3.7 million), so it's no wonder that the crew put a lot of time and effort into constructing the town of Bedford Falls. The set took two ...
The Wonderful Country, starring Robert Mitchum and Julie London; The World, the Flesh and the Devil, starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens; The World of Apu (Apur Sansar), directed by Satyajit Ray – The Wreck of the Mary Deare, starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston – (Britain/U.S.)