A thrillingly authentic movie actually filmed on the California overland trail. It deals with a farmer called Roy Whitman , John McIntire , hires a guide , Buck , to bring women to his farm in the California Valley. As he led about 200 women on an adventure that most men feared to face . As Roy along with Buck return to Chicago to enlist 150 women willing to become wives for his workers .From these volunteers he selects 138 who seem able to survive and undertaking a difficult journey .
The valiant traíl guíde called Buck, Robert Taylor , leads a group of woman from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently settling there. Each signed a contract to marry she selected from pictures of 200 homesteaders and then faced a journey across the untamed western wilderness to meet the stranger with whom she would begin a new life. They were women finding a future, forgetting the past. Some were hussies in silk who become heroines in calico . They defied Nature's fury, Indian attacks , a thousand perils and hardships and found the love they longed for at the end of the trail .All of them had to suffer dangers, risks , and a lot of deaths.
This is a really fashionable entry in Western genre with an original plot and a throughly agreeable film. The movie' enjoyability , greatness , and autenthicity rests not only in the accuracy of the hardship life in the Far West , but in the well orchestred series of incidents such as the Indian attacks , the difficulty of wagons to trespass mountains and the feeling romance between Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel . Decorated by important subjects of bravery , fidelity , survival , camaraderie ,and fight for life . Although overlong , but blessed with a high energy level , thanks to action , spectacular wagon train and go riding . Robert Taylor gives an acceptable acting as the tough and stiff guíde who escorts a group of brave women throughout the great American desert and the Rock Mountains. When this movie was broadcast in the Spanish Television in a Village called Plan was organized a caravan of women from all over Spain to marry the male villagers at a blind date , and many of those single men found the women of their lives. The film benefits itself from great secundaries , as support cast is pretty good , full of beautiful women as Denise Darcel, Julie Bishop , Marilyn Erskine , Mary Murphy and a few men as the veteran John McIntire, Roy Jenson , Chubby Johnson ,and sympathetic acting by Nakamura. Special mention for Hope Emerson as the grumpy and enormous widow .
This is a story giant in scope , unusual in concept with an interesting idea well developed along the movie .The script was written by the great Frank Capra , and he had schemed to shot himself and cast Gary Cooper in the lead , but a bit later on , was sold his screenplay to his neighbour , William A Wellman . It packs a magnificent cinematography in Black and White and in overblown and amazing deep by cameraman William Mellor . It contains an attractive , thrilling and lyric musical score by Jeff Alexander . The motion picture, a big MGM spectacle lavishly produced by Dore Schary , was competentingly directed by William A Wellman who made good films as A star in born , Ox Bow Incident , The high and the mighty , Gallant journey , Yellow sky , No things Sacred , Joaquin Murrieta , Beau Geste , Roxie Hart , Reaching for the sun , Men with wings , among others .
This is a really fashionable entry in Western genre with an original plot and a throughly agreeable film. The movie' enjoyability , greatness , and autenthicity rests not only in the accuracy of the hardship life in the Far West , but in the well orchestred series of incidents such as the Indian attacks , the difficulty of wagons to trespass mountains and the feeling romance between Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel . Decorated by important subjects of bravery , fidelity , survival , camaraderie ,and fight for life . Although overlong , but blessed with a high energy level , thanks to action , spectacular wagon train and go riding . Robert Taylor gives an acceptable acting as the tough and stiff guíde who escorts a group of brave women throughout the great American desert and the Rock Mountains. When this movie was broadcast in the Spanish Television in a Village called Plan was organized a caravan of women from all over Spain to marry the male villagers at a blind date , and many of those single men found the women of their lives. The film benefits itself from great secundaries , as support cast is pretty good , full of beautiful women as Denise Darcel, Julie Bishop , Marilyn Erskine , Mary Murphy and a few men as the veteran John McIntire, Roy Jenson , Chubby Johnson ,and sympathetic acting by Nakamura. Special mention for Hope Emerson as the grumpy and enormous widow .
This is a story giant in scope , unusual in concept with an interesting idea well developed along the movie .The script was written by the great Frank Capra , and he had schemed to shot himself and cast Gary Cooper in the lead , but a bit later on , was sold his screenplay to his neighbour , William A Wellman . It packs a magnificent cinematography in Black and White and in overblown and amazing deep by cameraman William Mellor . It contains an attractive , thrilling and lyric musical score by Jeff Alexander . The motion picture, a big MGM spectacle lavishly produced by Dore Schary , was competentingly directed by William A Wellman who made good films as A star in born , Ox Bow Incident , The high and the mighty , Gallant journey , Yellow sky , No things Sacred , Joaquin Murrieta , Beau Geste , Roxie Hart , Reaching for the sun , Men with wings , among others .