Movie: The Way West

I watched an old 1967 movie last night.

I had forgotten everything about it - except for a scene near the end - when they are lowering a wagon down to the bottom of a river gorge.

I'm pretty sure I must have watched it when it first came out on TV - that would have been when I was still young, 8-10 years old - living on Tadpole Road - on our 10 acres in the woods that I helped my father clear (before I entered the 2nd grade - chopping trees and brush with an axe and my hatchet).

I don't think I even recalled who the actors were ( Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark)

It was surprisingly good...and has aged well. One of the finest performances I can recall seeing by Robert Mitchum.

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062479/
• https://www.amazon.com/Way-West-Kirk-Douglas/dp/B001NTIBMG
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_West_(film)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_West
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Guthrie_Jr.
• "The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction"