The BIG MGM Spectacle ! HE LED 200 WOMEN ON AN ADVENTURE THAT MOST MEN FEARED TO FACE!
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Aug 20187/10
Caravan of graft, guile and stoicism. Westward the Women is directed by William Wellman and adapted to screen by Charles Schnee from a story written by Frank Capra. It stars Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, John McIntire, Hope Emerson, Julie Bishop and Henry Nakamura. Music is by Jeff Alexander and cinematography by William Mellor. A most important Western, one that demands to be seen by lovers of the genre. Plot finds Taylor tasked with escorting over 100 women from Chicago to California, their goal is to find marital harmony at Whitman Valley. They must overcome extreme conditions, from that of the natural terrain, hostile invasions, and inner fightings via passions and suspicions. This is a wagon train of some difference. The key issue here is that this MGM production puts up front and centre the fact that women played a key part in the shaping of the frontiers. It manages to have the expected cute and funny scenarios, but not at the expense of viable assertive drama, nothing denigrates how strong, brave and driven these women were. Some of the gender politics look a touch suspect today, and occasionally some of the framing devices for the women are over staged. There's also the ir
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Cast
- Robert TaylorBuck Wyatt
- Denise DarcelFifi Danon
- Hope EmersonPatience Hawley
- John McIntireRoy E. Whitman
- Julie BishopLaurie Smith
- Lenore LonerganMaggie O'Malley
- Henry NakamuraIto
- Marilyn ErskineJean Jackson
- Beverly DennisRose Meyers
- Renata VanniMrs. Maroni
Crew
- William A. WellmanDirector
- Charles SchneeScreenplay
- William C. MellorDirector of Photography
- Jeff AlexanderOriginal Music Composer
- James E. NewcomEditor
- Dore ScharyProducer
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