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In Wyoming a mountain man goes to the nearest town to sell his pelts, across the way he meets an innocent, runaway girl : Sandra Dee and both of whom join to go his destination . There he attempts to save her from the claws of the Saloon owner who at the same time results to be the nasty sheriff : Gilbert Roland of the little town . Along the way, Murphy falls in love for a Saloon Girl : Joanne Dru who is alienated by the townspeople . The wild and wonderful story of the exciting young frontier !

A decent and attractive Western about two innocent people who become involved in problem when they go to a noisy town to trade pelts and where inhabitants attempt to take advantage of them . It contains thrills, emotion, fights , duels, though no much action. Audie Murphy as a mountain trapper gives a nice interpretation in his usual style, though this time he plays an innocent as well as tough man. Murphy, who died early due to a plane accident plane, had a short life but a prolific cinematic career, outstanding in Western genre, starring a lot of them , such as : Sierra, Ride a crooked trail, Billy the Kid, Red Badge of Valor, Duel at Silver Crek, Cimarron Kid , but being his two biggest successes : the drama titled The Quiet Man and the warlike movie To Hell and Back. His partenaire is the famous teen of the 50s : Sandra Dee as the girl in distress who Murphy wants to save from her shameful job as a Saloon girl. Alongside the always beautiful Joanne Dru as woman isolated by the local citizens, Jim Backus as the hardware seller , Strother Martin in a sympathetic role , Peter Breck, George Mitchell and of course the veteran secondary Gilbert Roland as a corrupt sheriff.

It packs a colorful and evocative cinematography by Harald Lipstein. As well as thrilling and moving musical score by Hans J Salter. The motion picture originally titled The Wild Innocents was professionally made by Jack Sher, though it has some flaws and gaps. Sher was usually a writer, and produced some films and directed a few movies , such as : Kathy O, Love in a Goldfish Bowl, Four girls in Town, and his greatest hit : The 3 worlds of Gulliver. Rating : 6/10. Acceptable and passable. The movie will appeal to Audie Murphy and Sandra Dee fans.

Anything with Audie Murphy in it is worth a look-see so right there and then it is worth watching for that. We get a glimpse of the Wild West only more tamed but still a ways to go with people in town consisting of two factions; the respectable and the not so respectable. True to life depicting the hard ship and the rewards of living on the frontier in the later stages of its development toward becoming more civilized. Murphy plays a character that is peaceful, has virtue and wants to do right and hurt no one and it works but we are also pleased to find out he has boundaries too. As usual, we got horses, mules, trappers, Indians, gun-play, good guys, bad guys and a love interest. Some tender scenes with some mild violence and of course a happy ending to make it all go down just right. As Westerns go, this is not a stand-out or even a good word of mouth movie but an okay time spent if you do watch. Get a sandwich, a drink and settle in.

This is a good example of why older Westerns, pretty much before 1965, were grittier and more credible than the ones that showed modern day dorks in the old West.

The movie seems light hearted, yet mixes in the grit just the way it fits in real life, in ways uncomfortable. Audie Murphy plays a very real character, a backwoods nineteenth century trapper who ventures into the big city. His "good eyesight" becomes critical as the film continues. Indeed, good eyesight is something of great value in the old West, and it makes the two main male characters what they are.

The supporting characters are also very believable for nineteenth century characters. A great diversion from the usual garbage that made you think more that the actors were playing video games off set. Fortunately, there has been a resurgence of the reality and grit that made the fifties great.

The "mood" comes across very clear and works great. The old West city struggles between civilization and savagery, as we see in the way the store owner played by Jim Backus behaves. The store owner depicts pretty much the status quo of the town.

This film has a lot going for it, particularly in believable character motivation.

Audie Murphy stretched his youthful appearance once too often in doing The Wild and The Innocent. Neither he or Sandra Dee are all that wild, but brother are they innocent enough. If this were done today, both probably would have had sex scenes with Joanne Dru and Gilbert Roland.

It's hard to believe such folks exist, but Murphy plays a mountain trapper, probably one of the last of his kind in the rugged Wyoming Rockies. Normally he goes to a trading post to sell his furs, but as he gets there the trading post has been burned down because some peckerwood played by Strother Martin sold some moonshine to the Indians with predictable results.

Murphy's got to take his furs to Casper and this is first time in the big city. God only knows what he would have thought of Chicago or New York if Casper, Wyoming is defined as a city. Strother Martin leaves his daughter, young Sandra Dee with Murphy and both go to Casper.

Which is having a Fourth of July celebration. Let's say that both Murphy and Dee get a big city education from Dru and Roland.

The characters are a bit too much to swallow. Murphy's education may be lacking, but I can't believe he didn't learn a bit about the birds and the bees living in the wild. In fact country folk probably have a far more relaxed attitude about sex as they see it in the livestock they raise.

Gilbert Roland is one of my favorite character actors, I love him in anything and another good performance here is Peter Breck as a cowboy tough who Murphy deals with quite expeditiously.

Still Murphy and Dee look like one very odd couple.

Write something about Audie Murphy is a pleasure, a have almost all your pictures at a very special spot in my collection, he made a fortune on those B-westerns, earned much more money that some many famous actors, his charisma brought to him countless followers like myself, in another fantastic performance Audie plays a jerk trapper who is charge from his priceless uncle to sell all furs, in the middle he gets almost a gift a young blonde girl, trying out find a job to her on the crowed town, there he stays enchanted by a woman which shall see has an "Easy Life", a matter of fact that he actually wasn't civilized enough to understand how works a modern city on west, he has funniest moments to share us, Sandra Dee was gorgeous in this role, plays a perfect young innocent girl from the countryside, the chemistry is quite noticed, all viewers stayed anxious practically the entire movie for the best endind!!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.25