The Wild and the Innocent

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The Wild and the Innocent (1959)

NR 05/27/1959 (US) Western 1h 24m

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Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all manner of trouble in town, and Murphy has to shoot the sheriff to rescue Dee from her job as a dancehall girl.

Jack Sher

Director, Screenplay
Sy Gomberg

Screenplay, Story

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Audie Murphy

Yancey
Joanne Dru

Marcy
Gilbert Roland

Paul
Jim Backus

Mr. Forbes
Sandra Dee

Rosalie
George Mitchell

Uncle Lije
Peter Breck

Chip
Strother Martin

Ben Stocker
Wesley Marie Tackitt

Ma Ransome
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A review by John Chard

60%

Written by John Chard on September 14, 2019

The young, the old and the restless!

The Wild and the Innocent is directed by Jack Sher and Sher co-writes the screenplay with Sy Gomberg. It stars Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Sandra Dee, Jim Backus, George Mitchell and Strother Martin. A CinemaScope/Eastman Color production, the music is by Hans J. Salter and cinematography by Harold Lipstein.

Plot has Murphy as young mountain man Yancy Hawks who experiences big city life for the first time. Reluctantly on his journey into town he has acquired a companion, young Rosalie Stocker (Dee), whose father tried to trade her for som... read the rest.

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