Westward the Women

Westward the WomenRugged pioneers. Indian fighters. Brave trailblazers. These are the WOMEN who tamed the Wild West. Based on historical record, this wagon train saga details a 2,000 mile journey from Chicago to California. Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) is a tough, experienced scout who leads a wagon train full of women, including two prostitutes (Denise Darcel and Julie Bishop), a hearty widow (character great Hope Emerson), and an Italian immigrant widow, with fifteen

Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

though she knows nothing of his past

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and she is a pawn in the lethal games of court intrigue

thanks to the sailor's blunder

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of the pretty girl (June Allyson) he left behind and of his ne`er-do-well uncle's tall tales of the uncharted island of High Barbaree

A tragic past shadows his days

Larry Wilcox returns as straight-arrow officer Jon Baker and Erik Estrada reprises his role as free-spirited Frank "Ponch" Poncherello in this 15-year reunion that adds a `90s sensibility to the can't-miss elements that made the 1977-83 CHiPs TV series a fan-pleasing success: cool motorcycles

He was cast as the lead in The Public Enemy

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bending thick iron rods around each other