Westward the Women "National General Pictures"Rugged pioneers. Indian fighters. Brave trailblazers. These are the WOMEN who tamed the Wild West. Based on historical record, this wagon train saga details a 2,000 mile journey from Chicago to California. Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train full of women, including two prostitutes (Denise Darcel and Julie Bishop), a hearty widow (character great Hope Emerson), and an Italian immigrant widow, with fifteen
the first actor to receive it
a workaday go-fer for Look magazine (except when he fakes being a big-time photog) and in love (without exception) with Broadway chorine Judy LeRoy
but the reunion isn't exactly everything he imagined it would be
returning to the sagebrush genre that
Indian fighter Johnny MacKay (Ladd) is sent to the south Oregon border to deal with the renegade Modoc Indian chief
but lots of clothes
Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods
A broadway nightclub waiter falls in love with a crippled singer who selfishly accepts his help without loving him in return
the sand below and a song in their hearts
taking a ride alongside three of Monogram's most wanted: two-fisted Johnny Mack Brown
Highlights include glorious Manhattan locales
wide prints are no longer known to exist) and filming some of the action in New Mexico locales known to the outlaw
