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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.
John Chard
Aug 2, 2018 · via TMDB
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 irritant of stereotyping Nakamura's Asian character, but these are small quibbles all told. For this is a unique and fascinating Western, something of a banner movie for telling a side of the "West" we hardly have ever see on film. 7/10
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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
Frankie Darro
Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Roy Jenson
(uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Gambler (uncredited)
Carl Pitti
Outrider (uncredited)
Milicent Patrick
Flashy Woman (uncredited)
Ted Adams
Bartender (uncredited)
Raymond Bond
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Polly Burson
Preacher (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
Flashy Woman (uncredited)
John Cason
Margaret's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
George Chandler
Mackeral Face (uncredited)
Mikel Conrad
Rose's Man (uncredited)
Pat Conway
Sid Cutler (uncredited)
Gene Coogan
Outrider (uncredited)
Bruce Cowling
The Cat (uncredited)
Evelyn Finley
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Dorothy Granger
Rejected Woman (uncredited)
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Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Chubby Johnson
Jim Stacey (uncredited)
Frank McGrath
Outrider (uncredited)
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Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Gene Roth
Bartender (uncredited)
David Sharpe
Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Joan Valerie
Flashy Woman (uncredited)
John War Eagle
Indian Chief (uncredited)
Henry Wills
Outrider (uncredited)
Carey Wilson
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Lon (uncredited)
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
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Walter Plunkett
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Stunts
William A. Wellman
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Dore Schary
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Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Charles Schnee
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