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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0883904107156 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: United Artists Manufacturer: United Artists Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: United Artists Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Running Time: 122 minutes Studio: United Artists Theatrical Release Date: 1967 Sales Rank: 15706 MPN: MGMDM110715D
Product Description: Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com: From 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A Good Film As I saw It
The one thing I have learned about the so-called "professional" reviewers of films is that they have built in prejudices and ideas just like the rest of us...so I really do not pay that much attention ... Read More
Rating: - Way Great....
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 ... Read More
Rating: - An Unofficial Remake of The Big Trail
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.
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Rating: - Much better than expected
Despite the lukewarm reviews, and maybe because I've never heard of the book it's based on, I thought this movie was a real hoot. Widmark, Mitchum and especially Douglas ham it up pretty good but that just adds ... Read More
Rating: - Disappointing film of great book
The film version of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is scenic but uncompelling. Reading the book, which is the middle volume of the Big Sky Trilogy (between _The Big Sky_ and _Fair Land, Fair ... Read More
- A Good Film As I saw It
- Way Great....
- Much better than expected