Westward the Women (1951) on Netflix
Passed19511h 58mAdventureDramaWestern
Whitman's Valley, California has no women, and its men are ready to leave. Roy Whitman recruits 140 in Chicago to cross the frontier and marry there, with Buck Wyatt as guide.
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- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb7.6/104,489 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes69%
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Plot summary
The men of Whitman's Valley, California have no women to marry and are ready to leave. In 1851 their employer, Roy Whitman, travels to Chicago and enlists 140 women willing to make the crossing and wed there. Patience, a middle-aged widow, Rose Meyers, pregnant and unmarried, and the former showgirls Fifi Danon and Laurie Smith are among them. Each chooses a prospective husband from a collection of daguerreotypes. Whitman hires wagon master Buck Wyatt to lead the convoy to St. Joseph, Missouri, where Conestoga wagons and fifteen trail hands wait.
Cast
- Beverly Dennisas Rose Meyers
- Renata Vannias Mrs. Maroni
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Westward the Women (1951)
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- In 1985, bachelors in the Spanish village of Plan, Aragon, organized a caravan of women after a television airing of Westward the Women. With more than 40 single men and just one single woman in the village, a newspaper advertisement led to 33 marriages, and other Spanish villages have since organized similar caravans.
- To shoot in Utah, Kane County graded and improved approximately 50 miles of roads through rough and isolated land, letting the crew film Kane County, Johnson Canyon, the Gap, Paria and Surprise Valley, places never before seen on film.
- MGM sent 175 cast and crew members to film on location, the largest contingent in the studio's history at that time.
