The Rare Breed (1966)

Director:

Andrew V. McLaglen

Writer:

Ric Hardman (written by)

Release Date:

25 February 1966 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Romance | Western

Plot:

When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out...

Plot Keywords:

Bull | Cattle | Texas | Shot In The Back | Tea

Cast

James Stewart	...	Sam Burnett
Maureen O'Hara	...	Martha Price
Brian Keith	...	Alexander Bowen
Juliet Mills	...	Hilary Price
Don Galloway	...	Jamie Bowen
David Brian	...	Charles Ellsworth
Jack Elam	...	Deke Simons
Ben Johnson	...	Jeff Harter
Harry Carey Jr.	...	Ed Mabry
Perry Lopez	...	Juan
Larry Domasin	...	Alberto
Silvia Marino	...	Conchita
Alan Caillou	...	John Taylor
Gregg Palmer	...	Rodenbush
Barbara Werle	...	Gert

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:Approved (Certificate #21023) | USA:Not Rated (DVD) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

Universal Pictures

Trivia:

Maureen O'Hara adored Jimmy Stewart, but Jimmy was not "perfect." She said "Jimmy - bless his heart - pulled another ... well, Jimmy. Jimmy was never one to happily share a scene. One day on the shoot, Maureen poured everything she had into the scene they were doing and knew, Maureen had stolen it from Jimmy. We broke, and between takes, Jimmy went to his dressing room while my new makeup man, Whitey Snyder, within a few minutes, the assistant director came to the set and announced that they were wrapping for the day. Mr. Stewart had suddenly come down with a mysterious illness and was unable to return to the set.They showed up for work the next day to finish shooting the scene, new pages of script were handed out. The scene had been completely rewritten overnight and was now impossible for Maureen to steal" Maureen was more amused then mad; there was no friction or anything.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Martha Evans: What on earth are they doing?
Charles Ellsworth: It's called bulldogging, ma'am. That's Bulldog Burnett. He works for my outfit.
Hilary Price: Well, it's a perfectly silly way to handle cattle if you ask me.

Michener must have like it!

I just saw bits of this film for the first time today and kept at it because all of the leads were some of my all time favorite actors. I can't speak for the quality of the film since I didn't see it all, but it seems apparent that no lesser light than James A. Michener not only saw it, but liked it a lot since the basic plot line about the great British bull being brought to America by an English widow and then dying in a record blizzard after leaving his stamp on a new generation of crossbreeds is used almost verbatim in "Centennial" which was published nine years after this film was released.

Anyway, what I saw I enjoyed. I can't not enjoy O'Hara, Stewart and Keith!!!