The Wild Country

The Wild Country (1970)

A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.

Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.

Date of release
1970-12-16
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Adventure, Family, Western
Director
Robert Totten

Casting

Interesting facts

The Wild Country is a 1970 American Western adventure film directed by Robert Totten and starring Steve Forrest and Vera Miles. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions. The screenplay is based on the Ralph Moody book Little Britches.

Production

Walt Disney Productions originally bought the rights to Ralph Moody's autobiography Little Britches in the late 1950s, but questions of casting delayed production by ten years. The working title was The Newcomers. It was shot on three working ranches at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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