The read
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 85% of the 157 1960s western movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start developing a deep love for one another.
Ratings
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
121 audience votes
Key crew
- David RaksinOriginal Music Composer
- Tom GriesDirector
- Tom GriesWriter
Cast
- Charlton HestonWill Penny
- Joan HackettCatherine Allen
- Donald PleasencePreacher Quint
- Lee MajorsBlue
- Bruce DernRafe Quint
- Ben JohnsonAlex
- Slim PickensIke Wallerstein
- Clifton JamesCatron
- Anthony ZerbeDutchy
- Roy JensonBoetius Sullivan
- G.D. SpradlinAnse Howard
- Quentin DeanJennie
Stills
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Themes
The Best Movies of 1967
Will Penny is #32 of 60
