‘The Wonderful Country’: Where the Dust Never Settles

A Western gives a character study of a cowboy mercenary caught between Mexico and Texas.

Martin Brady (Robert Mitchum, R), in “The Wonderful Country.” United Artists

NR | 1h 38m | Romance, Western | 1959

As a kid obsessed with movies, I spent time with my father in Mexico and thought it was the perfect place to make films. My pops had a fleeting brush with Hollywood. He was an extra in “Rambo: First Blood Part II” (1985) when it was filmed in Acapulco.