The Stalking Moon is a 1968 western film in Technicolor starring Gregory Peck and Eva Marie Saint. It is directed by Robert Mulligan and based on the novel of the same name by T.V. Olsen. U.S. Army soldiers round up a group of Indians, mostly women and children. Surprisingly, they find among them a white woman and her half-Indian son. Sam Varner is a scout retiring from the Army to his ranch in New Mexico. He agrees to escort Sarah Carver and her son after she begs him. She wants to leave immediately rather than wait five days for a military escort. Varner takes them to a stage coach stop... called Hennessy. The boy runs away during the night. Varner and Sarah go looking for him as a dust storm begins. They find the boy and then hole up to wait out the storm. When they return to the station, everyone there is dead, killed by the boy's Indian warrior father, Salvaje . Salvaje is greatly feared even among his own people - and with good reason: he is known to be a silent and ruthless killer. Salvaje means "Ghost" in Apache, or in their own tongue: "He Who Is Not Here", meaning a dead man.
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| Release date: | December 25, 1968 |
| Directed by: | Robert Mulligan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 109 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alan J. Pakula |
| Music by: | Fred Karlin |
| Cinematography: | Charles Lang |
| Genre: | Western, Action |