The Wild Country

The Wild Country

100 mins | Adventure, Family, Western | Dec. 16, 1970

Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.

The Wild Country

100 mins | Adventure, Family, Western | Dec. 16, 1970

The Wild Country
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Walt Disney Productions
Original title The Wild Country
Directors Robert Totten
Writers Paul Savage, Calvin Clements Jr., Ralph Moody

Cast

Steve Forrest

as Jim Tanner

Vera Miles

as Kate Tanner

Ron Howard

as Virgil Tanner

Clint Howard

as Andrew Tanner

Jack Elam

as Thompson

Frank De Kova

as Two Dog

Morgan Woodward

as Ab Cross

Dub Taylor

as Phil

Woody Chambliss

as Dakota

Karl Swenson

as Jensen

Mills Watson

as Feathers

Rance Howard

as Cleve

Larry D. Mann

as United States Marshall

F. Ben Miller

as Shelby