Watched: 03/08/2025
Format: TCM
Viewing; First
Director: Andrew V. McClagen
A western-comedy-adventure movie fantasy about something weirdly specific - The Rare Breed (1966) is about the introduction of the Hereford steer to Texas. Is this how it happened? Most assuredly not. Do I care? I do not.
Because what the movie is about is really about dreams - who has them, how they can die or be put on ice, how we can find new ones, and how good does Maureen O'Hara look in green?*
Maureen O'Hara plays a British woman who was widowed en route to America, bringing a prize Hereford steer she plans to breed. She and her husband planned to prove this type of steer could thrive in the US, and crossbreed well with local steer - but as he died she's now left to do it on her own. So, O'Hara and her young-adult daughter, played by Juliet Mills (sister of Hayley), do what you did in the 19th century if you'd wound up here - they persevere.
