The Wonderful Country (film)

The Wonderful Country
Directed byRobert Parrish
Written byWalter Bernstein (uncredited)
Screenplay byRobert Ardrey
Based onThe Wonderful Country
1952 novel
by Tom Lea
Produced byChester Erskine
StarringRobert Mitchum
Julie London
Pedro Armendáriz
CinematographyFloyd Crosby
Alex Phillips
Edited byMichael Luciano
Music byAlex North
Production
company
D.R.M. Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • October 21, 1959 (1959-10-21)
Running time
98 minutes
CountriesUnited States
(production)
Mexico
(filming)
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1 million (US/Canada rentals)[1]

The Wonderful Country is a 1959 American Technicolor Western film based (with substantial changes) on Tom Lea's 1952 novel of the same name that was produced by Robert Mitchum's DRM Production company in Mexico. Mitchum stars along with Julie London.

Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige plays a soldier in the film, and Lea has a cameo as a barber.

  1. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34

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