AdventureDramaWestern

Westward the Women

- The BIG MGM Spectacle ! HE LED 200 WOMEN ON AN ADVENTURE THAT MOST MEN FEARED TO FACE!

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.

Release Date : 1951-12-16

Language :EnglishFrenchJapaneseItalian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : Pioneer Women

Cast

Character Name : Buck Wyatt

Original Name : Robert Taylor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fifi Danon

Original Name : Denise Darcel

Gender : Female

Character Name : Patience Hawley

Original Name : Hope Emerson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Roy E. Whitman

Original Name : John McIntire

Gender : Male

Character Name : Laurie Smith

Original Name : Julie Bishop

Gender : Female

Character Name : Maggie O'Malley

Original Name : Lenore Lonergan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ito

Original Name : Henry Nakamura

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jean Jackson

Original Name : Marilyn Erskine

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rose Meyers

Original Name : Beverly Dennis

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Maroni

Original Name : Renata Vanni

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)

Original Name : Frankie Darro

Gender : Male

Character Name : (uncredited)

Original Name : Roy Jenson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gambler (uncredited)

Original Name : I. Stanford Jolley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman

Original Name : Stevie Myers

Gender : Female

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Carl Pitti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flashy Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Milicent Patrick

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bartender (uncredited)

Original Name : Ted Adams

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Raymond Bond

Gender : Male

Character Name : Preacher (uncredited)

Original Name : Polly Burson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Archie Butler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flashy Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Claire Carleton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Bill Cartledge

Gender : Male

Character Name : Margaret's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)

Original Name : John Cason

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mackeral Face (uncredited)

Original Name : George Chandler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Doris Cole

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rose's Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Mikel Conrad

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sid Cutler (uncredited)

Original Name : Pat Conway

Gender : Male

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Gene Coogan

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Cat (uncredited)

Original Name : Bruce Cowling

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)

Original Name : Michael Dugan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Opal Ernie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Evelyn Finley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Patrick Ford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Clem Fuller

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Marilyn Gladstone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rejected Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Dorothy Granger

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bart (uncredited)

Original Name : Tom Greenway

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Karen Hale

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Donna Hall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Earle Hodgins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cora (uncredited)

Original Name : Mary Alan Hokanson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Don House

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Lucille House

Gender : Male

Character Name : Second Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Tennessee Jim

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim Stacey (uncredited)

Original Name : Chubby Johnson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Eddie Juaregui

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ken (uncredited)

Original Name : Bert LeBaron

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Marilyn Lindsey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tony Moroni (uncredited)

Original Name : Guido Martufi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank McGrath

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sadie (uncredited)

Original Name : Edith Mills

Gender : Male

Character Name : First Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Tom Monroe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Mary Murphy

Gender : Female

Character Name : Walt (uncredited)

Original Name : Elmer Napier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Blacksmith (uncredited)

Original Name : Lou Nova

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Kathleen O'Malley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Fiona O'Shiel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Ann Roberts

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bartender (uncredited)

Original Name : Gene Roth

Gender : Male

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Clint Sharp

Gender : Male

Character Name : Awaiting Groom (uncredited)

Original Name : David Sharpe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Ray Thomas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Flashy Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Joan Valerie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Indian Chief (uncredited)

Original Name : John War Eagle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Alice Wills

Gender : Female

Character Name : Outrider (uncredited)

Original Name : Henry Wills

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Carey Wilson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lon (uncredited)

Original Name : Terry Wilson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Moroni's Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Zacharias Yaconelli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pioneer Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Norma Young

Gender : Female

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Caravan of graft, guile and stoicism. Westward the Women is directed by William Wellman and adapted to screen by Charles Schnee from a story written by Frank Capra. It stars Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, John McIntire, Hope Emerson, Julie Bishop and Henry Nakamura. Music is by Jeff Alexander and cinematography by William Mellor. A most important Western, one that demands to be seen by lovers of the genre. Plot finds Taylor tasked with escorting over 100 women from Chicago to California, their goal is to find marital harmony at Whitman Valley. They must overcome extreme conditions, from that of the natural terrain, hostile invasions, and inner fightings via passions and suspicions. This is a wagon train of some difference. The key issue here is that this MGM production puts up front and centre the fact that women played a key part in the shaping of the frontiers. It manages to have the expected cute and funny scenarios, but not at the expense of viable assertive drama, nothing denigrates how strong, brave and driven these women were. Some of the gender politics look a touch suspect today, and occasionally some of the framing devices for the women are over staged. There's also the irritant of stereotyping Nakamura's Asian character, but these are small quibbles all told. For this is a unique and fascinating Western, something of a banner movie for telling a side of the "West" we hardly have ever see on film. 7/10