Track of the Cat
Track of the Cat

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A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous panther with seemingly mythical qualities which is killing cattle. An arrogant, pitiless son (Robert Mitchum) and a rigid pharisaic mother side against a moral eldest son and and a defeated alcoholic father while the youngest son tries to lay low, hoping against hope to persuade his fami... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Track of the Cat:

Robert Mitchum
Diana Lynn
Tab Hunter
Teresa Wright
Beulah Bondi
Philip Tonge

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A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous panther with seemingly mythical qualities which is killing cattle. An arrogant, pitiless son (Robert Mitchum) and a rigid pharisaic mother side against a moral eldest son and and a defeated alcoholic father while the youngest son tries to lay low, hoping against hope to persuade his family to allow him to marry a girl he has brought to visit. The girl however draws venomous condemnation and the two elder brothers set out in the midst of a violent snowstorm on a dangerous mission to kill the deadly panther.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzIt's one of those overlooked great films that somehow slips under the radar, in this case probably because it's unique as a Western.
New York Times - 4/10 by Bosley CrowtherIt has no psychological pattern, no dramatic point. There's a lot of pretty snow scenery in it and a lot of talk about deep emotional things. But it gets lost in following some sort of pretense.
MetroActive - 4/10 by Richard von BusackTrack of the Cat (1954) a late period William Wellman picture in fine CinemaScope, exemplifies the 1950s Westerns that were trying to muscle in on Eugene O'Neill's turf.
User Review - 8/10 by Cole MGreat western movie classic. Heart throb, Tab Hunter plays Harold, low esteem, youngest son of the Bridges family. Harold's love for Gwen (Diana Lynn) meets disapproval of matriarch, Ma Bridges (Beulah Bondi). His older brother, Curt, wants Gwen for himself, and sets out to show Gwen what she's missing. Arthur (William Hopper) eldest son, tries to keep the peace. A panther has other ideas;moreover, so does Gwen.
User Review - 8/10 by Tom HThis is one the most curious, peculiar Westerns of the classic studio era. Its tone is largely bleak and claustrophobic, though there a few light romantic moments that brighten the tone. The plot is minimal and follows the life of a bickering frontier family. Robert Mitchum plays the oldest brother, who during a brutal winter storm, goes on a journey to find the snow cat the killed his younger brother. The film's color scheme is largely expressionistic, and unlike in most Westerns, the landscape seems menacing and devoid of any potential for its frontier settlers, except of course death. The funeral scene seems more out of an Ingmar Bergman film than anything done from a Hollywood film from that time.
User Review - 6/10 by Walter MAt first, Joe Sam(Carl Switzwer), an elderly Indian, is the only one to hear it. After he wakes up the Bridges brothers, Curt(Robwert Mitchum), Harold(Tab Hunter) and Arthur(William Hopper), they also hear what might be a big cat threatening the family's cattle and is maybe even the mythical black panther that Joe Sam has alluded to on occasion over the years. At the very least, Curt and Arthur go out into the snow to see what they can find which gives their mother(Beulah Bondi) plenty of time to harangue Harold on his upcoming engagement to Gwen(Diana Lynn), the paid companion to Grace(Teresa Wright), who like her brothers is also unmarried. First, "Track of the Cat" is something of an odd duck in trying to turn its typical western premise of man versus nature on its head. And I would agree with anybody who says that this movie is meant mostly to be allegorical about the closing of the frontier in favor of settling down into a life of domesticity. But ignoring the hunt in favor of the household squabbles is a mistake, as anything Robert Mitchum does in general, much less in the stark white landscape, is much more interesting than anything going on inside the house where the primary lesson is to always find plenty of places to hide your booze.
User Review - 6/10 by James HLow key western drama, interesting cast, and they do well. Some of the art direction was a little phony looking. Nice score, cinematography. Interesting but a little slow moving at times.
User Review - 6/10 by Ben GAnn ambitious but flawed experiment. William Clothier's Scope "black and white" color cinematography is largely successful, especially in the surprisingly few location scenes, but the art direction on the all-too obviously artificial studio sets makes it feel like two distinctly different movies: a stagebound pseudo Eugene O'Neill drama about a house of secrets torn apart by a long day's journey into light and an assembly of footage of Robert Mitchum adrift in a snowy landscape as his bravado and ego break down in the face of an unseen enemy Unfortunately we get far more of the homestead theatrics than the tracking, and there's far too little menace and dripping dread.
User Review - 6/10 by Chris .Could've been better. Mitchum attempts to hunt down a panther that killed his brother while the rest of his family fight with each other at home. Nice scenery and the cast is pretty good, especially Mitchum's bitch of a mother. Still, it just didn't go anywhere in the end and dragged a lot.
User Review - 4/10 by Private UFor a movie titled "Track of the Cat", there are surprisingly few scenes of anyone actually tracking the cougar in question. Most of the time we're treated to the cast (minus Mitchum, who's actually tracking the cat) overacting (the major offender being Philip Tonge as the drunken father), their characters bickering over things that are never really explained at length (oh, and you also have Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as a 100-year-old Indian. Yeah, that's right. Alfalfa from the Little Rascals). It's like Wellman (William Wellman? Really?) didn't have confidence in the scenes where Mitchum is alone, simultaneously looking for the cat who killed his brother and trying not to freeze to death in a vast expanse of forest and snow. Which is unfortunate, because that probably would have been a much more interesting film. As it is, you never really learn about the inner workings of any of the characters, and a certain character's fate is so absurdly brusque that you spend the rest of the movie wondering what the hell was up with it. I wouldn't be surprised if the movie's sole reason in being was simply to tout Cinemascope, and the location shots are admittedly impressive. But all in all, it's a waste of Robert Mitchum. And that's just criminal.

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