Now, before we get into the essentials of how you can watch 'The Way West' right now, here are some specifics about the Harold Hecht Productions, United Artists adventure flick. The Way West starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright has a NR rating, a runtime of about 2 hr 2 min. The release date of the movie is May 24th, 1967. The movie received a user score of 61/100 on TMDb, which is derived from reviews from 97 contributing users.
Want the short version of the plot? Here's the plot: "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."
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'The Way West' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on May 24th, 1967
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting
May 13th, 2008
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