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Westward the Women
1951 1h 58m Not Rated
Western
,
Drama
,
Adventure
7.6
69%
83%
70%
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A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
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Directed By
William A. Wellman
Written By
Frank Capra
,
Charles Schnee
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast of Westward the Women
Robert Taylor
Buck Wyatt
Denise Darcel
Fifi Danon
Hope Emerson
Patience Hawley
John McIntire
Roy E. Whitman
Julie Bishop
Laurie Smith
Lenore Lonergan
Maggie O'Malley
Henry Nakamura
Ito
Marilyn Erskine
Jean Jackson
Beverly Dennis
Rose Meyers
Renata Vanni
Mrs. Maroni
Frankie Darro
Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Roy Jenson
(uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley
Gambler (uncredited)
Stevie Myers
Pioneer Woman
Carl Pitti
Outrider (uncredited)
Milicent Patrick
Flashy Woman (uncredited)
Ted Adams
Bartender (uncredited)
Raymond Bond
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Polly Burson
Preacher (uncredited)
Archie Butler
Outrider (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
Flashy Woman (uncredited)
Bill Cartledge
Outrider (uncredited)
John Cason
Margaret's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
George Chandler
Mackeral Face (uncredited)
Doris Cole
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Mikel Conrad
Rose's Man (uncredited)
Pat Conway
Sid Cutler (uncredited)
Gene Coogan
Outrider (uncredited)
Bruce Cowling
The Cat (uncredited)
Michael Dugan
Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Opal Ernie
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Evelyn Finley
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Patrick Ford
Outrider (uncredited)
Clem Fuller
Outrider (uncredited)
Marilyn Gladstone
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Dorothy Granger
Rejected Woman (uncredited)
Tom Greenway
Bart (uncredited)
Karen Hale
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Donna Hall
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Earle Hodgins
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Mary Alan Hokanson
Cora (uncredited)
Don House
Outrider (uncredited)
Lucille House
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Tennessee Jim
Second Man (uncredited)
Chubby Johnson
Jim Stacey (uncredited)
Eddie Juaregui
Outrider (uncredited)
Bert LeBaron
Ken (uncredited)
Marilyn Lindsey
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Guido Martufi
Tony Moroni (uncredited)
Frank McGrath
Outrider (uncredited)
Edith Mills
Sadie (uncredited)
Tom Monroe
First Man (uncredited)
Mary Murphy
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Elmer Napier
Walt (uncredited)
Lou Nova
Blacksmith (uncredited)
Kathleen O'Malley
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Fiona O'Shiel
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Ann Roberts
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Gene Roth
Bartender (uncredited)
Clint Sharp
Outrider (uncredited)
David Sharpe
Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Ray Thomas
Outrider (uncredited)
Joan Valerie
Flashy Woman (uncredited)
John War Eagle
Indian Chief (uncredited)
Alice Wills
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Henry Wills
Outrider (uncredited)
Carey Wilson
Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Terry Wilson
Lon (uncredited)
Zacharias Yaconelli
Mrs. Moroni's Man (uncredited)
Norma Young
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
Westward the Women Reviews
Miami Herald
George Bourke
Westward the Women is an outstanding motion picture -- one of the season's top 10.
Los Angeles Times
Philip K. Scheuer
Westward is entertaining, mind you. It's just no epic.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The director, William Wellman, was on his last legs by the time he made this 1951 MGM western; the raw energy of his 30s films had degenerated into flat bombast.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Win Fanning
Frankly, the greatest obstacle in the path of the women in this epic is the script.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Mack Williams
Westward the Women is an entertaining romance.
Honolulu Advertiser
Advertiser Staff
Western scripters have come up with a refreshing switch in Westward the Women.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Myles Standish
Director Willam Wellman has compromised some of his more vigorous scenes with touches of hokum, so instead of brutal realism, we have only a theatrical imitation thereof.
San Francisco Examiner
Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
The story is one of feminine valor.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mildred Martin
Neither William A. Wellman's direction nor the Charles Schnee script based on a Frank Capra story give the film much conviction. But it does cover a lot of ground.
Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
David Bongard
MGM's off-beat style of western has a good many chuckles in general and a more particular study of the method our forefathers used in outfitting an expedition to a new golden state.
Newsweek
Newsweek Staff
It is no distortion of history to demonstrate that the American woman comes through with a magnificent display of resourcefulness and courage, but there isn't much leeway in all this action for the gentler art of acting.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
No matter how closely or how loosely it is based on actual incident, is engrossing cinema.
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
The picture offers much excitement and many thrills.
Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
Fred Hift
It is a Western that'll have 'em gap ing and laughing and perhaps crying in spots.
Washington Post
Richard L. Coe
Charles Schnee, the script writer, and William A. Wellman, the director, have overdone their contributions... had they lopped off half an hour from their running time... Westward the Women would have been a better picture.
Christian Science Monitor
Rod Nordell
Hardship plays a considerable part in the drama. William A Wellman has directed the well photographed incidents with an eye to action and to the more obvious situation giving opportunity for a display of womanly emotions.
Photoplay
Sara Hamilton
A powerful Western.
Washington Star
Jay Carmody
The hardships which provide the exciting incident of Westward the Women are the familair ones of such trips.
Variety
William Brogdon
Schnee's screenplay of the Capra story is best in its use of dialog. Words given the players all have meaning and never appear to be just talk filling in between the action.
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
All the parts in the film are well played, under William Wellman's direction. The latter has a way of making these pictures of the old West come alive. He gives each scene a touch of realism that heightens the illusion of the story.
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