Track of the Cat William Wellman, USA, 1954, 35 mm, 102m Mitchum reunited with his Story of G.I. Joe director William Wellman («I was very, very fond of him,» Mitchum said of Wellman, «and he tolerated me») for a different kind of movie, based on a Walter Van Tilburg Clark
novel, about a homesteading family in
snow country whose livestock is being destroyed by a roaming
mountain lion.
(below this interview is an earlier interview in which Houston discusses
Snow Mountain Passage) For the second time, you've written a
novel that reaches in to the past.