The Way West
Dir: Andrew McLaglen
1967
***
I quite liked The Way West even though it's not a particularly good Western. You'd think you'd get at least one great performance considering it's big stars; Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum and Richard Widmark but no. Douglas keeps it together but his character is somewhat two dimensional, Widmark over does it somewhat and Mitchum looks like he'd rather be somewhere else (in 1967 it was probably the recording studio). It's Sally Field who steals the show in my opinion, her sassy and flirtatious Mercy McBee brings the film alive somewhat in what is, much like a caravan in the old west, slow, meandering and occasionally perilous.