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The Way West

Cracking Like a Whip From Here to Excitement!

1967 · NR · 2h 2m

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen

6.1

TMDB audience score
115 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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

  • John Mitchum
    Little Henry

  • Patric Knowles
    Captain Grant

  • Hal Lynch
    Big Henry

  • Timothy Scott
    Middle Henry

  • Roy Glenn
    Saunders

  • Paul Lukather
    Mr. Turley