The read
A Balasaur Score of 51 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 29%, Metacritic 42/100. Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do. Most of the 225 1960s action movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
112 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrew V. McLaglenDirector
- Ben MaddowScreenplay
- Mitch LindemannScreenplay
- Bronislau KaperOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kirk DouglasSen. William J. Tadlock
- Robert MitchumDick Summers
- Richard WidmarkLije Evans
- Lola AlbrightRebecca 'Becky' Evans
- Jack ElamPreacher Weatherby
- Stubby KayeSam Fairman
- Michael McGreeveyBrownie Evans
- Harry Carey Jr.Mr. McBee
- Connie SawyerMrs. McBee
- Michael WitneyJohnnie Mack
- William LundiganMichael Moynihan
- Elisabeth FraserMrs. Fairman
