Fourth in the series of westerns director Anthony Mann made with James
Stewart, "The Far Country", while not the best of them, is still hugely
entertaining. Stewart's cattleman is something of a walk in the park for
him, (there's nothing here to tax him as an actor despite the taciturn
nature of his character), but he's backed by an excellent supporting
cast that includes Ruth Roman and Corinne Calvet as the two women vying
for Stewart's affection, Walter Brennan and Jay C. Flippen as sidekicks
and John McIntire, (excellent) and Robert J. Wilke principal among the
villains. The always reliable Borden Chase did the first-rate screenplay
and William Daniels was the DoP while the Canadian locations are as
much the star of the picture as Mr Stewart.
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