The Way West
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Movie Reviews of The Way West
Movie Review: Way Great....
Summary: 5 Stars
Great western, Kirk Douglas plays a ego-maniac hell bent on getting to Oregon at any cost. Widmark is in a typical role and Bob Mitchum is so laid back you'd think he was smoking his favorite herb throughout the filming.Movie Review: One great moving western...another Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas sucess
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a westerns fan and like Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, and Kirk Douglas, this is one you should not miss.Movie Review: Great Actors
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one that I watched with my father, when I was young and enjoyed it very much.Movie Review: An Unofficial Remake of The Big Trail
Summary: 4 Stars
With a cast that includes Kirk Douglas, Richard Widmark, AND Robert Mitchum, how can anyone who is a fan of Western Movies pass up The Way West? You can't - and you shouldn't, it's a good movie.
The surprising thing is how The Way West takes so many plot points from The Big Trail. It's the first wagon train to Oregon, and big scenes include a tough river crossing, Indian attacks, and lowering both wagons AND livestock over the edge of a cliff by ropes! All of those things were straight out of The Big Trail.
But there are some significant differences. The Way West plays much more like a late 60's Western, with bits of TV Soap Opera drama thrown in. That both gives it some charm and holds the movie back from being as good as it could have been.
Andrew V. McLaglen (Victor McLaglen's son) does a good job moving the story along, and gets some strong performances (although nowhere near their best) from Douglas, Widmark, and Mitchum. As the director on The Way West, McLaglen's visual style is good, but not quite up to the great levels of some of the better Western directors of the 40's and 50's. There is plenty of beautiful scenery to be had here, though, and the scope of the film is pretty big.
While it doesn't quite meet it's full potential, The Way West is still a strong movie, and with a cast like this it's certainly worth a purchase.
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.
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