FAR HORIZONS

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• Release Year: 1955
• Genre: Western
• Plot: The Untamed West is the reissue title of the Pine-Thomas production The Far Horizons. This romanticized retelling of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803-06 stars Fred MacMurray as Meriwether Lewis and Charlton Heston as Bill Clark. The film doesn't delve much into the real-life animosity between the two, though it's clear that there's little love lost between the cerebral Lewis and the two-fisted Clark. Aiding the men in their expedition is Indian maiden Sacajawea, played with fist-in-the-air defiance by Donna Reed. Since interracial romances were still largely taboo in American films of the early 1950s, Sacajawea can only pine and sigh as Lewis and Clark square off over the affections of white-woman Julia Hancock (Barbara Hale). This Technicolor-and-Vistavision film works best as an outdoor adventure; its dramatic scenes tend to bog down in an excess of verbiage. The Far Horizons was based on Sacajawea of the Shoshones, a novel by Della Gould Edmonds.;
• Cast: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Alan Reed, Eduardo Noriega, Larry Pennell, Argentina Brunetti, Julia Montoya, Ralph Moody, Herbert Heyes, Lester Matthews, Helen Wallace, Walter Reed, Fran Bennett, Joe Canutt, Frank Fowler, Bob Herron, Bill Hickman, Robert Hinkle, Leroy Johnson, Margarita Martín, Tom Monroe, Voltaire Perkins, William Phipps, Vernon Rich, Herman Scharff, Bill Walker, Al Wyatt Sr., Rudolph Maté, Della Gould Emmons, Winston Miller, Edmund H. North
• Director: Rudolph Maté
• Runtime: 1:48
• Company: Pine-Thomas Productions
• Media Format: Movie