Westward the Women

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

Dec 31 1951 Approved 1h 58m
Adventure, Drama, Western

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.

Plot

In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's (John McIntyre) farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates, he selects 138 who seem able to survive a months long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains.

Written by

Charles Schnee, Frank Capra

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Cast

Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

Italiano, Français, English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
Westward, The Women (Original Theatrical Trailer)
Featurettes
Larry Karaszewski on WESTWARD THE WOMEN
Scores
# of Votes
4,320
Average Rating
7.6 out of 10
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