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...wife and hating himself in the morning. His boyhood buddy, Chief Inspector Charles Kane (James Whitmore), has been caught double-dealing with a crime syndicate in order to protect his erring son. And as if letting Benesch (Steve Ihnat) get away were not bad enough Detective Dan Madigan (Richard Widmark) has all he can do to keep his pretty blonde wife (Inger Stevens) from blowing her top because she feels socially inferior and sexually frustrated...
...wagon train are symbolic of mankind. Adapted from a novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr., the film has somehow lost the earthy realism of the book, and has become merely a landlocked ship of fools. Among the passengers are a flint-eyed scout (Robert Mitchum), a pioneering couple (Richard Widmark and Lola Albright), a frightened newlywed who alternately freezes and teases her husband, a Negro slave-not to mention a crowd of teenagers, old folks and other essentials of the wayward western...
...nubile teenager, and gets her pregnant. A wild shot in the dark kills a prowling Indian boy. His father, a Sioux chieftain, demands a life for a life, and the leader of the pioneers (Kirk Douglas) hangs the offender-who happens to be the adulterer-with his own hands. Widmark's son nobly proposes marriage to the teenager...
From the beginning, The Way West is off on the wrong trek. As was common in the taming of the frontier, there is a great waste of natural resources-in this case, Mitchum, Douglas, Widmark and Albright. All are solid professional performers who deserve to travel first-class next time they journey West...
Friday, April 7 CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Long Ships (1964), a period piece aswash with buckle. Sidney Poitier, leader of the Moors, and Richard Widmark, the Viking chief, clash in their search for lost treasures...