New Movies: Abe Lincoln in New Mexico

The wild Apaches have taken to the hills, and after them clops the cavalry including a bony scout named Sam Varner (Gregory Peck). In the ensuing roundup, one face is out of place: a blonde woman, Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint), prisoner of the Indians for some ten years. Out of pity—and maybe a pinch of desire—Varner takes Sarah and her half-breed son to live on his New Mexico ranch.

Such situations were once the end of Westerns; in The Stalking Moon it is only the beginning. Sarah's "husband" is Salvaje (Nathaniel...

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