The Way West
by Andrew V. McLaglen
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Actor: Kirk Douglas, Lola Albright, Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Sally FieldDirector: Andrew V. McLaglen
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: United Artists
Movie Reviews of The Way West
Movie Review: pretty good as westerns go....
Summary: 4 Stars
Don't get me wrong, I usually agree with most of Leonard Maltin's movie reviews. But frankly, I get pretty sick of "assuming" all John Wayne movies are classics and automatically deemed as iconic. I have to laugh-Maltin deems The Way West as a pathetic failure yet Fort Apache is God's gift to mankind. What a farse. The fact is I love the legacy of John Wayne but the fact remains he was NOT a very "talented" actor, just an icon. So if The Way West is a 1 1/2 star failure, Fort Apache is "garbage". John Wayne typically "over-acted" and co-star in Fort Apache Henry Fonda never was a good actor (his off-spring Jane and Peter are even more pathetic as actors-I ask you-did" you ever see the "character" Jane Fonda played instead of the so-called "actress-", pretending to be a character instead of just Jane Fonda you were watching-I rest my case).
Fort Apache was a ridiculous diatribe with usual Wayne over-acting and Fonda reading lines like a zombie. Yet The Way West was a pathetic failure???? Give me a break. The fact is Wayne movies like Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon were ridiculous brainless caricatures and The Way West more creditible and certainly should be equal if not better. My view-The Way West....at least 3 star....Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow ribbon 1/2 star at best.
Summary of The Way West
Sally Field makes her film debut in this sumptuous epic tale of the brave men and women who left the comfort of the East for the promise of free land in the untamed West. Also stars Kirk Douglas Robert Mitchum and Lola Albright.System Requirements:Running Time: 122 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/CLASSICS Rating:?NR UPC:?883904107156 Manufacturer No:?M110715From a year that produced such groundbreaking "New Hollywood" films as Bonnie & Clyde and The Graduate, Andrew V. McLaglen's The Way West is an old-fashioned western--grandly shot on location by William Clothier--that did for Oregon what John Ford did for Monument Valley. Based on A.B. Guthrie, Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Way West stars a steely Kirk Douglas as widowed senator William J. Tadlock, who is determined to "plant a new Jerusalem in the Oregon wilderness." Robert Mitchum costars as Dick Summers, a weary and grieving scout whom Tadlock persuades to help him lead the disparate group of "greenhorn storekeepers and tenderfoot farmers." A lively Richard Widmark also stars as restless Pennsylvania farmer Lije Evans, who's "got to go where I've not been." Traditional western action, including disastrous river crossings and Indian encounters, takes a backseat to the sudsy human dramas. Tadlock is a stern taskmaster who drives the settlers as mercilessly as John Wayne drove those cattle in Red River. At one point, he even makes a play for Evans' wife (Lola Albright). Sally Field makes a memorable screen debut as sexually precocious Mercy, "all hellfire and sin," and who seduces a newly married man whose wife refuses to consummate their marriage. Throw in the accidental shooting of an Indian boy, plus such welcome faces as Jack Elam and Stubby Kaye, and you have an epic adventure that western buffs will follow all the Way. --Donald Liebenson
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