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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CustomFlix
• DVD Release Date: June 20, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CDFZPK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,002 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Mountain: The Story of a Cowboy Angel, November 24, 2005

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This review is from: CHRISTMAS MOUNTAIN: THE STORY OF A COWBOY ANGEL (DVD)

This really is a GREAT family film! It offers a unique, and dare I say, "multicultural" Christmas perspective that's not the least bit heavy-handed or contrived, but rather an engaging portrait of one man's much needed change of heart. In general, this movie is a good old-fashioned "feel good" film reminiscent of the warmth and spirit of Little House on the Prairie.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas Mountain: A Western Christmas film with Endearing Charm, January 18, 2007

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This review is from: CHRISTMAS MOUNTAIN: THE STORY OF A COWBOY ANGEL (DVD)

Christmas Mountain (a.k.a The Cowboy Angel), starring the late and wonderful Slim Pickens and Mark Miller(Savannah Smiles,various TV series) was made in 1981. It is an absolutely charming holiday film about the true meaning of the spirit of Christmas. Slim Pickens stars as The Cowboy Angel who comes to the cowboy character played by Mark Miller (Pickens' old cowpoke friend), in the middle of the night not unlike Marley in A Christmas Carol. The drifting cowpoke wanders into a mountain town on the border where Mexicans tend sheep. He gets caught in a blizzard.It is nearly Christmas. He eats a sumptuous meal and then can't pay for it. He is thrown in jail but is later bailed out to do the bigoted town peoples' dirty work for them. They press him into service to deliver some pathetic hand-me-down gifts of clothing and stale food to a "poor" family in order to assuage their own guilty conscience over being fat, dumb, comfortable and warm in their little village while those "Mexican Sheepherders" are up on Christmas Mountain alone. The Spanish family is a recently widowed young mother, pregnant and due any minute, her young son and old mother. The towns' people celebrate Christmas service patting themselves on the back for the good deeds they have down during the past year which of course are delusions of the real truth of their selfishish and money grubbing. The Cowboy goes to the mountain delivering the gifts and stays over night in the shed because "Cow Folks and Sheep Folks" don't mix. Of course his Cowboy Angel appears to him in the night telling how he must mend his past sinful ways if he is to get his own wings someday and get into heaven. Slim himself is almost there, and all he needs to graduate is to save his old buddy by putting him on the right path, and then Slim will finally get his wings.

It is a complelely charming and delightful story though on a parallel course of so many other classic holiday films, with one soul helping another to see the right and virtuous light. THIS IS MOST DEFINITELY A FAMILY FILM FOR ALL AGES and will warm anyone's heart who enjoys nice happy endings. Despite its obvious low budget, it blends wonderful acting with beautiful western vistas, and a real feeling that we are all the same afterall, under the skin and in our beliefs, feelings, hopes and dreams. I have watched this film every year at Christmas beginning from when my daughters were young over 25 years ago right up to the past Christmas when my old VHS tape wouldn't play any longer and I gratefully found the DVD on Amazon.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Family Movie, January 9, 2007

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This review is from: CHRISTMAS MOUNTAIN: THE STORY OF A COWBOY ANGEL (DVD)

Christmas Mountain is a wonderful family movie...a movie for all ages. It has a wonderful message of love and caring, a little action and the acting is well done. Slim Pickens is fun to watch as a Christmas angel. This is not an academy award winning film by any means but it is enjoyable for holidays.