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Westward The Women
MGM's epic "western" enhanced by epic photography of William Mellor, A.S.C.
By ARTHUR ROWAN
“U/ESTWARD The Women” is one of the few pictures to VV come out of Hollywood in which the photography vies with the story and cast for top honors. One cannot view this MGM production without feeling the grandeur of William Mellor’s brittle-sharp black-and-white photography, which effectively sets the mood for the unique saga of a horde of pioneer women braving 2.000 miles of prairie and desert
MGM's "Weslward The Women" is a saga of 200 women who brave miles of prairie and desert in quest of husbands in California. Before starting trip from Chicago, Robert Taylor tells them of hardships ahead.
EVER ALERT for roving bands of Indians, Taylor precedes wagon train with the women now driving and herding the cattle. Scene, with its winding trail, is just one of many compositional highlights in film.
wastelands in quest of husbands in far off California.
The accent on photography was director William Wellman’s idea. No ordinary studio-lot settings would do for his epic of pioneer gals in calico struggling across the North American continent hell-bent for matrimony. Wellman wanted new and startling locales having unusual photographic possibilities against which to stage the action of his story, and toward this
HALFWAY to California, all but two of the men Taylor hired as wagon drivers and guides desert, leaving the women, Taylor and two men to continue trip alone. Enroute they fight indians, storms; suffer injuries.
RAINFILLED mudholes afford women the only bathing opportunities enroute to California. Glaring, unfiltered skies in all scenes such as this emphasize the rugged elements endured by the travelers.
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January, 1952