Backbencher

When I realized that I could watch The Man From Snowy River and do a review on it I jumped at the chance. When I was younger my Mom would sit down with my brothers and I and watch this movie. Watching this brought back memories. Anyways, this movie is about an eventual mountain man named Jim Craig. Jim lives far up the mountains, no distance can lessen the love for his girl, Jess Harrison. There is one big problem though, her father hates Jim. I’m going to skip over the boring part of the movie and get to the good part. One night, some of Harrison’s hired men are drunk and they let Patton’s prize colt out of its stable. Towards the end of the movie, Harrison puts together a posse to round up the colt who is running with a group of wild horses up in the mountains. Guess who shows up at the Harrison ranch, when he is not welcome, to help round up the horses. Yep, Jim Craig. All the people chasing the horses don’t know what they are doing, and while they are trying to round up the horses people get hurt and killed. In the end, Jim Craig ends up rounding up the entire group of wild horses, and brings them right down from the high country to the Harrison’s ranch. Old man Harrison tries to give Craig money for the cold, but Craig refuses to take the money and says that he will be back for the other horses he rounded up, and also for Jess, Harrison’s daughter. This movie is pretty cool because it shows the life of someone living in the high country. Jim Craig is rejected by people in the low lands because they say he has lost his mind by living up there so long, but really, Craig is smarter, and a better rancher than all these people could ever be. This is the best movie I watched by far. Kind of reminds me of Jeremiah Johnson, at least a little bit.