The Way West (Harold Hecht's The Way West)

The Way West (Harold Hecht's The Way West) (1967)

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Senator William J. Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding, routine western. A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf, prompting Summers to… More

Unrated, 2 hr. 2 min.
Directed By
Andrew V. McLaglen
Genres
Western, Classics
In Theaters
May 24, 1967 Wide
On DVD
May 13, 2008

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Victor McLaglen's son Andrew directed in a lackluster way this dreary epic of the move Westward.

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  • Stephen M


    I thought it might be fun to see Mitchum and Douglas reunited twenty years after <I>Out of the Past</I>; I couldn't have been more wrong. <I>The Way West</I> is an overlong, tedious western based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, set - like Anthony… More

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