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Director:
Bernard McEveety
Writer:
Jim Byrnes (writer)
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Release Date:
19 January 1976 (USA) more
Genre:
Western more
Plot:
Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, help's move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into... more | add synopsis
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TV Soap Western more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
James Arness ... Zeb Macahan

Eva Marie Saint ... Kate Macahan

Bruce Boxleitner ... Seth Macahan
Kathryn Holcomb ... Laura Machan
William Kirby Cullen ... Jed Machan
Vicki Schreck ... Jessie Machan
Richard Kiley ... Timothy Machan
Gene Evans ... Dutton
Victor Mohica ... Billy Joe
Frank Ferguson ... Grandpa Mahcia
Ann Doran ... Grandma Macahan
Ben Wilson ... Henry Jethro
Mel Stevens ... Dr. Dodd

Rudy Diaz ... Sioux Chief Bear Dance
John Crawford ... Hale Crowley
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Additional Details

Runtime:
Sweden:119 min | 150 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Movie Connections:
Followed by "How the West Was Won" (1978) more

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0 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
TV Soap Western, 6 September 2005
4/10
Author: cengelm from Germany

Unlike many other comment writers I'm only writing about the film and not the series. This entry of the IMDb refers to the pilot(?) film only.

The movie deals with the fortune of the Macahan family who underwent a life of strange and irrational decisions. Timothy(?) Macahan is tired of the life in Virginia and also fears the upcoming civil war and thus decides to go west. With a single covered wagon and his brother Zeb as a scout he soon arrives in Nebraska. Despite the availability of a telegraph line he starts to worry about his parents who have stayed back in Virginia and decides to ride back more than 2000 miles through territory of war. After nothing is heard about him one of his sons follows him to Virginia and is thereby recruited by the Unionists. In the middle of the Shiloh battle he meets his father who is just about to die in the same minute. Isn't the USA bigger than than the town where I'm living?!

There is a teaching narrative which gives the impression that the event-driven soap opera is meant as kind of a lesson. The actors could have been better and more natural, some more extras could have filled the scenes. The way the story is told lacks the necessary grit which is a typical flaw of TV-Westerns. Camera work and score are mediocre.

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