The Way West1967
The Way West (1967)
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Cast
as Sen. William J. Tadlock
as Dick Summers
as Lije Evans
as Rebecca 'Becky' Evans
as Johnnie Mack
as Johnnie Mack
as Sam Fairman
as Mercy McBee
as Amanda Mack
as Brownie Evans
as Mrs. McBee
as McBee
as Mrs. Fairman
as Michael Moynihan
as Mrs. Moynihan
as Masters
as Mrs. Masters
as Turley
as Mrs. Turley
as Billy Tadlock
as Weatherby
as Big Henry
as Middle Henry
as Little Henry
as Saunders
as Col. Grant
as Col. Grant
as Calvelli
as Paw-Kee-Mah
as Sioux Chief
as Sioux Brave
as Sioux Brave
as Caleb Greenwood
as Hank
as Barber
as Indian Boy
as Cattleman
as Cattleman
as Cattleman
as Cattleman
as Sioux Brave
Critic Reviews for The Way West
All Critics (3) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (3)
If The Way West does not wholly succeed as drama, it is at least a well-made and wholly professional Hollywood Western.
Victor McLaglen's son Andrew directed in a lackluster way this dreary epic of the move Westward.
Audience Reviews for 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.
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