Across the Great Divide ** (1976, Robert Logan, Heather Rattray, Mark Edward Hall) – Classic Movie Review 6452

Writer-director Stewart Raffill’s prettily photographed 1977 family Western adventure is brisk and capable and just as predictable, as two plucky orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in 1876 to claim their inheritance of a 400-acre Oregon ranch.

The good-natured, nicely done movie is highly populated with two resilient children, grizzlies, stampeding buffalo, Western clichés and picturesque countryside.

It stars Robert Logan as trickster Zachariah Coop, Heather Rattray (in her film debut) and Mark Edward Hall as the kids Holly and Jason Smith, and George ‘Buck’ Flower as Ben.

It is filmed in Alberta, Canada, and Utah, US, and made by the people behind The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975), also directed by Raffill and starring Logan.

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