The Way West

Synopsis

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

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Top of the call sheet

• 
  Kirk Douglas
  as Sen. William J. Tadlock
• 
  Robert Mitchum
  as Dick Summers
• 
  Richard Widmark
  as Lije Evans
• 
  Lola Albright
  as Rebecca 'Becky' Evans
• 
  Jack Elam
  as Preacher Weatherby
• 
  Stubby Kaye
  as Sam Fairman

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