Home from the Hill

1960

Action / Drama / Romance / Western

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 4208 4.2K

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Plot summary

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

Director

Vincente Minnelli Photo
Vincente Minnelli

Top cast

Everett Sloane Photo
Everett Sloane as Albert Halstead
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams Photo
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Hugh Macauley
Anne Seymour Photo
Anne Seymour as Sarah Halstead
Chuck Hamilton Photo
Chuck Hamilton as Party Guest
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.27 GB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 30 min
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2.43 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 30 min
Seeds 3

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by planktonrules 8 / 10

Enjoyable...and a bit trashy. And this isn't necessarily a complaint.

Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 8 / 10

Real good solid movie.

This is a well made typical genre movie that features some solid emotions and characters and offers some well written plot elements.It's a coming of age movie but it also is a (melodramatic) family drama. These type of movies really had been popular in the past and most of them also are really great ones to watch. Too bad they just don't make movies such as these anymore. This movie might not be the best in its genre but it has more than anything other elements in it to compensate for this.One of them most definitely is the cast. Robert Mitchum once again gives away one fine performance. The movie also features a great and still young looking George Hamilton and George Peppard, though Mitchum on the other hand still looks the way he did 20 years before this movie.The movie handles all of the genre elements really well and know to bring it in a good and original way. Definitely a surprising movie from Vincente Minnelli, who got his fame for directing other type of- and less serious movies. I especially like the way George Hamilton's character gets developed and changes throughout the movie, from a mothers-child to a real adult. It was also great how they handled the Robert Mitchum character. They make him not-likable but at the same time also intriguing and interesting enough to not hate him. It's sort of too bad that they made the mistake to let his character slowly disappear out of the movie for most of the last third of the movie, while he starts off as the main character. The movie does a good job at portraying the relationships between the characters, which is an essential part for movies such as these.Despite the fact that the movie its story definitely has soap-opera like dramatic developments in it, you still get drawn in to it, which is I think due to the interesting characters and actors that portray them. It keeps the movie real.The movie is set in the South of the United States, which gives the movie that special kind of- and warm atmosphere. Its sets, costumes and props all add to this. The time period the movie is set in also definitely benefits the movie. The movie also has a surprising good and likable musical score, by Bronislau Kaper.Worth seeing if you get the chance to.8/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
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