The Missouri Traveler (Walt Disney, 1958)

. . Syrup . . Poor Brandon de Wilde. He was the whiny kid in Shane  in 1953, aged 10, much lauded but I thought miscast, nothing like the older, gutsier boy in the book. After three vaguely Western TV appearances he was then in James Stewart’s first non-Anthony Mann and (consequently) poor Western Night Passage in […]