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Overview
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Writers:
A.B. Guthrie Jr. (novel)
Ben Maddow (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
24 May 1967 (USA) more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Over long but some good set-pieces more (17 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kirk Douglas | ... | Sen. William J. Tadlock |
 | Robert Mitchum | ... | Dick Summers |
 | Richard Widmark | ... | Lije Evans |
 | Lola Albright | ... | Rebecca 'Becky' Evans |
 | Sally Field | ... | Mercy McBee |
| Katherine Justice | ... | Amanda Mack |
 | Jack Elam | ... | Preacher Weatherby |
| Stubby Kaye | ... | Sam Fairman |
 | Michael McGreevey | ... | Brownie Evans |
| Harry Carey Jr. | ... | Mr. McBee (as Harry Carey) |
| Connie Sawyer | ... | Mrs. McBee |
| Michael Witney | ... | Johnnie Mack |
| William Lundigan | ... | Michael Moynihan |
| Elisabeth Fraser | ... | Mrs. Fairman (as Elizabeth Fraser) |
| John Mitchum | ... | Little Henry |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Harold Hecht's The Way West (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
122 min
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Color (as De Luxe)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Norway:12 | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12
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There was a minor helicopter crash on the set. more
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Anachronisms: Lola Albright is wearing a heavy pink lip gloss in some early scenes. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[Mercy flirts silently with Brownie]
Lije Evans:
Best not be lookin', Brownie.
Brownie Evans:
I ain't lookin'... as hard as I can.
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Soundtrack:
The Way West more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Way West (1967)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| This film was so bad I could not watch | rspear61 |
| The Novel? | shandy8 |
| Pinnacle | shandy8 |
| the hot + bothered flying nun | ksf-2 |
| Académique et ennuyeux | cmguinard |
| Shooting of Calf | stevemold |
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| How the West Was Won | The Oregon Trail | The Painted Stallion | Heroes of the West | Wagon Wheels |
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An attempt at an epic old-style Western from a journeyman director - he made a better stab at it later with Chisum. Perhaps its the lack of John Wayne and the rest of the John Ford rep but this is a film of striking set-pieces separated by far too much time! Douglas and Widmark both do some stirring scenery-chewing but this is a melodrama so that is allowed. Mitchum is laid-back and laconic as only Mitchum could be - and looks wonderful as ever. Not sure why others were surprised to see him in a Western - Mitchum made his share and some very good ones too (El Dorado, Five Card Stud and Bandido are all favourites of mine). The Fort Hall sequence is fun - just as a reminder that the Sioux and the French weren't the only folks that got there before the Americans! ;-)