by Dan Pavlides
synopsis
Senator William J. Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding, routine western. A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf, prompting Summers to order newlywed triggerman Johnny Mack (Michael Witney) to be hanged to avoid an Indian attack. Sally Field appears in her first big-screen role as the slatternly Mercy McBee.
characteristics
- Taming The West
- White People Among Indians
- Stampede
- Wagon-train
- On-the-road
- Native-American
- Frontiersman
- Indian
- Journey
