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The Way West (Harold Hecht's The Way West)

The Way West (Harold Hecht's The Way West) (1967)

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Senator William J. Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding, routine western. A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf, prompting Summers to order newlywed triggerman Johnny Mack (Michael Witney) to be hanged to avoid an Indian attack. Sally Field appears in her first big-screen role as the slatternly Mercy McBee. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Unrated,

Western, Classics

May 13, 2008

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Victor McLaglen's son Andrew directed in a lackluster way this dreary epic of the move Westward.

July 26, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Audience Reviews for The Way West (Harold Hecht's The Way West)

I thought it might be fun to see Mitchum and Douglas reunited twenty years after Out of the Past; I couldn't have been more wrong. The Way West is an overlong, tedious western based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, set - like Anthony Mann's infinitely superior Bend of the River - along the Oregon Trail. For all I know, the book may be wonderful, but McLagen's film of it has very little forward momentum. The three stars (Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark) struggle to find anything to get their teeth into, while the secondary characters - including an impressive Sally Field in her film début - meander through subplot after superfluous subplot. Mitchum's trademark world-weariness is so close to genuine boredom in this picture, I can only assume he spent too much time watching the rushes while making it. Beautiful to look at; a chore to watch.
May 22, 2009
harrycaul

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This is an excellent movie. Has a star studded cast, Douglas,Mitchum, Widmark, Sally Field...Very much overlooked classic.
November 8, 2007
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