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24/05/1967 Action, Adventure, Drama, Western 2h 2m
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Cracking Like a Whip From Here to Excitement!

Overview

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

  1. Andrew V. McLaglen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kirk Douglas

    Sen. William J. Tadlock

  2. Robert Mitchum

    Dick Summers

  3. Richard Widmark

    Lije Evans

  4. Lola Albright

    Rebecca 'Becky' Evans

  5. Jack Elam

    Preacher Weatherby

  6. Stubby Kaye

    Sam Fairman

  7. Michael McGreevey

    Brownie Evans

  8. Harry Carey, Jr.

    Mr. McBee

  9. Connie Sawyer

    Mrs. McBee

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2021-04-14
_**The exploits of a wagon train on the Oregon Trail with Douglas, Mitchum and Widmark**_

The adventures of a wagon train in 1843 traveling from Independence, Missouri, to Willamette Valley, Oregon, are chronicled. Kirk Douglas plays the dictatorial leader, Robert Mitchum an aloof scout, Richard Widmark a fiery farmer, Lola Albright his wife and Jack Elam a stowaway Preacher.

"The Way West" (1967) was based on the wagon train tome by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. There are elements reminiscent of earlier such movies, such as “Bend of the River” (1952) and “How the West was Won” (1962), as ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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