Overview - The Way West

Overview

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

Cast

• Name: Kirk Douglas

  Character: Sen. William J. Tadlock

  Popularity: 2.4031

  

• Name: Robert Mitchum

  Character: Dick Summers

  Popularity: 1.3895

  

• Name: Richard Widmark

  Character: Lije Evans

  Popularity: 1.1889

  

• Name: Lola Albright

  Character: Rebecca 'Becky' Evans

  Popularity: 0.418

  

• Name: Jack Elam

  Character: Preacher Weatherby

  Popularity: 1.4786

  

• Name: Stubby Kaye

  Character: Sam Fairman

  Popularity: 0.2514

  

• Name: Michael McGreevey

  Character: Brownie Evans

  Popularity: 0.2775

  

• Name: Harry Carey, Jr.

  Character: Mr. McBee

  Popularity: 0.7032