Westward the Women

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Westward the Women (1951)

NR 12/31/1951 (US) Adventure, Drama, Western 1h 58m

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The BIG MGM Spectacle ! HE LED 200 WOMEN ON AN ADVENTURE THAT MOST MEN FEARED TO FACE!

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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.

William A. Wellman

Director
Charles Schnee

Screenplay
Frank Capra

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Robert Taylor

Buck Wyatt
Denise Darcel

Fifi Danon
Hope Emerson

Patience Hawley
John McIntire

Roy E. Whitman
Julie Bishop

Laurie Smith
Lenore Lonergan

Maggie O'Malley
Henry Nakamura

Ito
Marilyn Erskine

Jean Jackson
Beverly Dennis

Rose Meyers
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on August 2, 2018

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 th... read the rest.

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