The Way West (1967)
Cracking Like a Whip From Here to Excitement!
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen · Writers: Ben Maddow, Mitch Lindemann
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.
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Director
Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast
Kirk Douglas
Sen. William J. Tadlock 
Robert Mitchum
Dick Summers 
Richard Widmark
Lije Evans 
Lola Albright
Rebecca 'Becky' Evans 
Jack Elam
Preacher Weatherby 
Stubby Kaye
Sam Fairman 
Michael McGreevey
Brownie Evans 
Harry Carey Jr.
Mr. McBee 
Connie Sawyer
Mrs. McBee 
Michael Witney
Johnnie Mack 
William Lundigan
Michael Moynihan 
Elisabeth Fraser
Mrs. Fairman User Reviews (1)
_**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 well as later ones, like “Meek’s Cutoff” (2011). It’s generally realistic, but some viewers don’t appreciate the occasional Hee Haw-like caricatures thrown in for light amusement, e.g. Widmark’s Lije, Elam’s preacher and Sally Field’s flirty teen. But I didn’t mind; I just rolled w…
