"True Grit" (2010)

Below is Part Two to my artikel about Hollywood's depiction about the westward migration via wagon trains in 19th century United States. It focuses upon the 1967 movie, "THE WAY WEST":


"WESTWARD HO!": Part Two - "THE WAY WEST" (1967)

I. Introduction

Based upon A.B. Guthrie Jr.'s 1949 novel, "THE WAY WEST" told the story of a large wagon train's journey to Oregon in 1843. The wagon train is led oleh a widowed former U.S. Senator named William Tadlock (Kirk Douglas). A former mountain man named Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) is hired as the wagon party's guide and among the last to gabung the train...

"DJANGO UNCHAINED" (2012) Review

Over three years following the release of his 2009 movie, "INGLORIOUS BASTERDS", Quentin Tarantino courted success and controversy with a new tale set the past. Called "DJANGO UNCHAINED", the 2012 movie combined the elements of the Old West and Old South and told the story about a recently freed slave-turned-bounty hunter in cari of his still enslaved wife.

The movie begins with a gang of male slaves being transported across Texas oleh a group of slavers called the Speck brothers. The group encounter Dr. King Schultz, a German-born dentist, who also happens to...