Westward Ho the Wagons!
- Fess Parker: John Doc Grayson
- Kathleen Crowley: Laura Thompson
- Jeff York: Hank Breckenridge
- David Stollery: Dan Thompson, Laura's brother
- Sebastian Cabot: Bissonette, commander of Fort Laramie
- George Reeves: James Stephen, leader of the trek
- Doreen Tracy Bobo, whose daughter
- Barbara Woodell: Mrs. Stephen
- John War Eagle: Wolf Brother, chief of the Sioux
Train the Fearless (Video Title: West Ward - The caravan of the Dauntless, Original Title: Westward Ho the Wagons ). 's An American Walt Disney feature film from 1956 directed by William Beaudine. The leading roles were occupied by Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley and Jeff York. The script was written by Tom Blackburn. It is based on a novel by Mary Jane Carr. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the strip came the first time on 15 November 1957 cinema.
Action
The film has a historical background. He plays 1844 in the United States of America.
Because they have become inhospitable to life in Nebraska, thousands of farmers do with their families in a great trek into the fertile Oregon. The settlers have not achieved their goal for the day, the U.S. Army post Fort Laramie and are forced to pitch their camp in the middle of the prairie. Because the group is in the territory of them hostile Pawnees, the doctor Doc Grayson and the frontier worker Hank Breckenridge are emitted from the trek leader as scouts to search for traces of the Indians. Although they do not find it, warn the two scouts their fellow travelers to be cautious. Special attention Grayson applies the young Laura Thompson and her teenage siblings who have lost their parents and now need his special protection.
Some kids are just going to collect firewood in the vicinity of the camp, as they are tracked down by a patrol of the Pawnees. Laura's brother Dan is kidnapped by them. On the night he indeed manages to escape, but that he conjures up an attack of the Indians, which are superior to the settlers numerically far. After a fierce battle, the farmers see only one way out: they sacrifice their workhorses that accompany the trek, and drive them against the Indians. Thus, they are saved.
The day after the trek reached the Fort Laramie. In its vicinity the next camp is pitched. Here is the territory of the Sioux Indians, and of these threatened the settlers initially no danger. However, this changes when the medicine man persuades his chief, the curly blond Mira, Laura's little sister should be included in the tribe, because he then bring this happiness. Therefore, the chief proposes the settlers to give him the child. In return, he offers the settler group safe conduct to Oregon. The proposal is of course rejected. Now it prefer the settlers as long to rest at Fort until the dust has settled.
During a fall from his horse, the son of the Sioux chief seriously injured. As Dr. Grayson to help the child decides. Together with Laura in which he has now in love, he sets out into the Indian camp. He is well aware of the danger which he received it; because the boy should die during his treatment, this would be charged to him, and he would have to expect the worst. To the extent it does not, fortunately. The chief's son is healthy again. Under the protection of the Indian tribe draw the settlers with their covered wagons on.
Production Notes
A large role in the film plays the music. It was composed by George Bruns and orchestrated by Edward H. Plumb. The buildings created the Designer Emile Kuri and Bertram C. Granger. On the camera was Charles P. Boyle. For special recordings Peter Ellenshaw was responsible. The German were processed at Simoton film Berlin.
Criticism
The lexicon of the International film only noticed that it was a low-stress with many Western songs.
Source
Program for film in publishing The New film program, Mannheim, without specifying number