The Legend of 5 Mile Cave

Was a pretty decent movie, until the end. Why do so many directors in PervertWood (i.e. Hollywood) have such a hard time ending a movie? The ending made no sense. If you have a couple of hours to waste, watch this. The director should never be allowed to do another movie.

"The Legend of Five Mile Cave" is an anjoyable film. The actors are very good. The scenery is nice and appropriate to the setting. The plot and story are well done. There is a voice-over narration which some might find overdone, but it worked for me. Otherwise, a great film.

67 yrs. old here. The movie is slightly reminiscent of the the goodness and morals of the 50's TV western. Production value, settings, and the transition from the old west to 1929 in the movie were somewhat weak. The hero, Shooter Greene, and the young boy were on the front porch of the farmhouse clarifying the truth of the book the boy was reading in one scene. I noticed there was vinyl ship lap siding on the house! there was no vinyl siding in 1929.

This movie is horrible. it's knock off disney. the cheesy music is only made more embarrassing by the horrible acting and weak dialog.... complete waste of time.

Simple plot. Ok for simple-minded fare. Dialogue needs work - words and phrases they didn't use then. Costumes are terrible - all clean and new - except for a couple of bad guys, of course. Perfectly white, straight teeth, makeup on the women. Beautifully trimmed beards and eyebrows. Everyone is VERY clean. Roads and town streets perfectly flat. People of that time had clothing that was very worn and stained and their normal daily wear looked pretty rough. They were dirty most of the time and very scraggly looking. Their hair was not perfectly quaffed and beards were not trimmed. Only the girls of ill repute wore makeup and their hair was very simply bound so it would not get in their way while they worked. Some terrible riding - arms flapping. Ridiculous. A guy leaves his horse in the desert when he climbs into a moving stagecoach??? If I were 9, I would like it. As an adult, it's awful. Check out "Open Range." Much better AND family-friendly.

It seems that in the post-HBO Deadwood era producers and directors feel like they have to fill a Western film with profanity and gratuitous nudity to give it realistic grit. This film rejects that mentality. Now admittedly the production value and authenticity is not exactly stellar--in one of the first scenes Shooter Green is using a Henry Big Boy rifle, not introduced until 2003, but it passes for an Old West rifle--but it's not bad. The storyline was fairly easy to follow even though it switched back and forth from the Old West to the 1920's. The acting was fine. It has, as other reviewers have said, a typical Hallmark type production, but sometimes those films can knock it out of the park (the original Love Comes Softly movie, e.g.) This one might not rise to that level, but it was a fun movie that kept my attention and was not overly lengthy. It could have benefited by better costume design, as all the clothes were new, clean, and pressed at all times, which is not realistic for the Old West or even a farm in the 1920's. The shootout scenes also looked fairly fake, as the actors/stuntmen are seen holding guns as if they are as light as plastic toys, and there is no discernible recoil when shots are fired, which means they probably weren't real guns firing blanks but nonfiring props, and the shots were edited in digitally and a gunshot audio effect added.