Westward the Women
Westward the Women is a 1951 American western film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel and John McIntire.
Plot
In 1851, Roy Whitman wants to keep the lonely men who live in Whitman's Valley in California from leaving, so he decides to bring a large group of respectable women from the East to marry them. He hires experienced though skeptical wagon master Buck Wyatt to lead a wagon train along the California Trail. In Chicago, Whitman recruits 138 "good women", who are not daunted when Buck tells them that one-third of them will not survive the journey.
More details
| author | Charles Schnee Frank Capra |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | William Augustus Wellman |
| editor | James E. Newcom |
| genre | western |
| keywords | baby boy california trail clothe conestoga wagon daguerreotype drown how to indian attack japanese man kill married reject river train unmarried woman wagon master wagon train wait widowed mother |
| musicBy | Jeff Alexander |
| producer | Dore Schary |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |