Highly Overrated But Still Good

Absolutely the worst movie.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"The Red Fury" is the kind of family movie that is not made anymore. In a way that's a shame, because family movies like this often teach good values and are lacking in negative stuff found in modern family movies such as toilet humor. On the other hand, family movies from this period do often come across as dated in several important manners. The main way this movie is dated is with its pacing. The film moves extremely slowly, at such a slow pace that I think even audiences at the time were shuffling in their seats. Possibly due to the slow pace comes the second problem, that there isn't any big conflict. There's stuff like prejudice that's tackled, but its treatment comes across as very soft instead of more hard-hitting. The movie has wholesome good ingredients, but the end result is lacking in bite and deep feelings.

The Red Fury is presented as a family film, and it sort of is. Frankie (the Indian boy) faces prejudice in a small town, with only a drunk (John) and a schoolteacher (Amelia) on his side. He fell off a train, so he's staying with John until his father comes for him.I didn't like this movie at all. There are many problems with this film: it's very slow-paced and yet it rushes everything (how it managed that I don't know), it takes on more than it can handle, and it never really follows through on any of the threads it begins. The title horse is tamed within the first half hour, so there's no suspense there. Frank is very annoying for the first twenty minutes because he refuses to speak. John keeps asking him questions and getting no answer--it's very rude. What's worse is that the first thing the boy does when he opens his mouth is demand John give him his stallion. That only becomes less rude when Frank saves John from being kicked & trampled to death by Fury a few minutes later.And here's the spoiler--the horse dies. That's what makes it *not* a family film, in my opinion. If you liked Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows, that might be okay with you, but tread carefully if you have small, horse-loving children.

The Red Fury refers both to an unnamed stallion that rancher Will Jordan owns and a young Indian boy played by Juan Gonzalez works to tame. The kid is a passenger on a train with his father and falls off the train and on to the Jordan ranch. Jordan's a crusty old cuss who's lost his wife and family years ago and lives alone and miserable on his ranch. The boy and the rancher don't take to each other right away, but when the kid saves the old man during a fire, they bond completely.Bonding with the rest of the people in the neighborhood's another proposition all together. They've got typical western prejudice against Indians, led by rival rancher Cal Bartlett who also sees Jordan's Red Fury as a rival to his own horse that he's breeding to race. His daughter Wendy Lynne leads the kids in school into not accepting young Mr. Gonzalez.There are two prominent female roles in the cast, former Warner Brothers television starlet Diane McBain, now a forty something storekeeper and Katherine Cannon as the schoolteacher from the east who tries to help the young Indian lad. In a small role is the skipper, Alan Hale, Jr. who plays the town doctor.The Red Fury is not a bad family film, it's got some decent moral values in it, but the pace is way too slow, it drags considerably in the telling of its tale.

An young Indian boy falls off of a train and winds up in the care of a drunkard man. The boy shows the man his talent with horses and the man takes to him. The local people do not like the boy (because he is Native American) and they try their best to get rid of him, but the drunkard man decides to give up his booze and stand up for the boy! Very much like "Little house on the Prairie" (and you can take that as a compliment)!This is a very slow moving movie, but well worth watching! In fact, very good Christian value worth watching!!!!!!!!!