Directed by Robert Mulligan, The Stalking Moon (1968) is a rough-hewn Western wherein a white woman (Eva Marie Saint) kidnapped long ago by the Apaches, and now rescued, struggles to keep the Indian father of her half-Indian son from taking the boy away. Helping her in this effort is a retiring army man (Gregory Peck) voluntarily serving as her escort. The likable action scenes hardly redeem this picture once it starts failing to make sense—perhaps the novel from which it is adapted is more illuminating—and since it too quickly and casually ends. As it happens, Moon is one of the weakest Westerns of the past few decades.
Cover of The Stalking Moon
