kelkeg-42763 I have watched this movie so many times I can pretty much recite it. The mountains and other scenery are fantastic. So many funny comments - Black Feet god Dammit. Ya pork eatin frog turd.

breyboa This movie is extremely enjoyable if you don't take it too seriously. From the beautiful scenery of the opening to the wondrous musical score at the finish (and throughout), I had a highly enjoyable viewing experience. One of my favorite movies, mostly because of Kieth's(Frapp) and Heston's(Tyler's) comical relationship and dialouge. Yes, the plot is simple and unoriginal, the indians are white actors and drop like flies in battle, but the cinematography is glorious in nearly every scene, the movie works quite well as a "period piece" and the relationships between the characters are fun and believable. I found it strange that in what seems like half the scenes the characters are walking or running through freezing mountain streams and rivers. Without a warm fire nearby they would have suffered from frostbite, and yet Tyler runs through a mountain stream in the winter!A high point is the scene where Frapp and Tyler are reunited unexpectedly in a snowy meadow after Tyler thought he saw Frapp killed. Pure joy! The movie weaves drama and comedy together into a fine fun time. How can anyone not enjoy Brian Kieth's performance? If you like the outdoors and action, by all means you'll love this fun romp. Just don't take it too seriously!

bkoganbing It's always good to have a movie star father and young Fraser Clarke Heston was able to get father Charlton to star in a film adaptation of his script about The Mountain Men. Of course Dad was able to get friend Brian Keith into the film as well, they had worked together previously on a western called Arrowhead back in the salad days of both of them.Charlton Heston has always been generous with praise of his colleagues so I don't think he begrudged Brian Keith a bit for totally stealing this film away from the Heston clan. Keith's portrayal of the rollicking, hard drinking, hard cussing, mountain man pal of Charlton Heston is the highlight of the film. It's the main reason to see The Mountain Men.Another reason is the grand location cinematography in the Grand Teton mountains in Wyoming where this was filmed. This in fact is where the Kit Carsons, Jim Bridgers, Thomas Fitzpatricks and the rest of that hardy breed of men worked at their lonely occupation of trapping beaver pelts for sale.They were indeed a hardy bunch. Unlike the post Civil War west these guys were in fact outnumbered by the Indians who with their bows and arrows were actually possessing weapon superiority to the muzzle loading single shot muskets the trappers had. You learned Indian ways and skills of all kinds or you did not survive.The plot of this film has Heston rescuing an Indian princess, Victoria Racimo, a Crow away from her Blackfeet captors and earning the undying hatred of Stephen Macht, a chief among the Blackfeet. Very similar to the plot of Robert Redford's Jeremiah Johnson where Redford was also an object of Indian vengeance.This film marked the farewell performance of that grand character actor Victor Jory. Jory plays a Crow chief who may look old but seems to have found Viagara long before the FDA approved it.Unfortunately for The Mountain Men it got caught up in the wake of the approval for Jeremiah Johnson. It suffers unfairly in comparison to the Robert Redford film.Yet The Mountain Men can definitely stand on its own critically and every other way. And Jeremiah does not have the fabulous Brian Keith in it.

piratecat-2 One of my favorite movies. A movie set around 1830 when trapping in the Rockies was slowly dying out. Charlton Heston and Brian Keith are pair of spirited old codgers who are liven past dreams gone by but manage to eick out a liven in the forsaken rugged frontier of Wyoming. Their adventure is far from over when a dispute with an Indian warrior puts them on a head to head collision. The warrior's woman who escapes to be with Bill Tyler the trapper put not only him but all his friends in harms way. A must see movie. An enjoyable entertaining tale of the ole frontier. Keith the undying loyal sidekick of Heston till the end loves to hear his friend spin tales of the valley of the beaver. So abundant are the beaver they stand on logs and call out take me Bill Tyler take me. To the amusement of Brian Keith but the irritation of Charlton Heston. A fun, action, humor, drama, and suspenseful performance.