I love this movie! The landscape pics are just so beautiful!!! Thanks for posting this. This is indeed one of the best Westerns. And I love Chuck Connors!

One of the best scenes in one of my favorite movies, Wale doggies that's some of the best fancy riding I've ever seen !

Loved the movie, loved the music. It has always been one of favorite films!

Superb Chuck Connors!

No Stunt Double: Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston did their fight scene themselves and per William Wyler's instructions, they were really hitting each other. Real-Life Relative: Gregory Peck's sons are in the film. Scully Box: Gregory Peck wore lifts in the film so he would look taller than Charlton Heston and more in line with Chuck Connors. Which is pretty funny considering that Peck was already a pretty tall guy himself (he's widely considered one of the classic examples of tall, dark and handsome). Stunt Double: Slim Pickens' daughter later revealed that he doubled for Gregory Peck in the scene where James McKay gets bucked off the horse. Pickens owned the horse and didn't want anyone else riding it. Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Jean Simmons was so traumatized by her experience making the film that she refused to talk about it for years until an interview in the late '80s, when she revealed: We'd have our lines learned, then receive a rewrite, stay up all night learning the new version, then receive yet another rewrite the following morning. It made the acting damned near impossible.

I use to have horses and rode almost every day. I was good but never anything like this! Amazing!!

Just the best piece of music for an opening western ever!!! the directing is great and the stunts mind blowing . thanks for posting pduck7

Great trick riding

god those horses are wonderful!

The stunt riding is amazing. I think one of the reasons there are so few westerns made anymore is that you can't find actors and stunt men who can ride anything like the actors you see in this scene. Connors was great in this movie. It's his best role by far.

One hell of a way to say good morning ! the guy spacewalking behind the horse risked such a kick in the #~*s , I hope they paid him well .

I think that's Sheb Wooley doing the trick riding.

Magnificent!

fantastic movie!...

Adoro i film western, in questo film mi è piaciuto tutto, la scenografia, le musiche, la trama intrigante e avvincente fino all' ultimo ma soprattutto........gli attori!!!!! Bel film!!

I knew a guy in new york who could do that on a motorcycle but that horse that played old thunder tell me something about him and think i saw dice the horse from Duel in the Sun being riding by Charlton Heston when they were searching for Gregory peck

beautiful scene, and NONE shot in a studio.....

Another William Wyler Classic movie.

this is one off the best film themes along with the vikings with Kirk Douglas the Magnificent Seven The Time Mache with Rod Taylor and Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve and Shane Alan Ladd

I have to say it: 'They don't make 'em like this anymore'. Does anybody under 40 watch BIG COUNTRY, MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE PROFESSIONALS, HOW THE WEST WAS WON, TGTBTU or ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST?

Anyone know who the trick rider is? I just watched this movie twice. Great flick. I thought of Yakima Canutt. But Wiki mentions Chuck Hayward. It's probably the same cowboy on 'old thunder'. Oops. Just read down a little further. Slim Pickens!! Who would have thunk it.

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They don't make anything like this anymore!