One of those colour widescreen fifties dramas we're so fond of (actually debuted in March 1960), written by Harriet Frank and Irving Ravetch from a novel (of course) by William Humphrey.
Robert Mitchum is the big man around the Texas place, Eleanor Parker (Detective Story) his unloving wife, George Hamilton their impressionable son and George Peppard a sort of loyal family retainer. Hamilton falls for Luana Patten and hunts a wild boar (not necessarily in that order) and there's a dangerous place full of yellow smoke and quicksand, which you think will play a part in the finale but doesn't. Milton Krasner's crew are happy driving around in jeeps in the woods performing lateral tracking shots and catching that yellow smoke.
Everett Sloane is the girl's offended father, and there's a particularly good score from Bronislau Kaper. Edited by Howard Kress. MGM.
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