The Far Horizons with Fred MacMurray: DVD Cover

    The Far Horizons
    a.k.a. The Untamed West Director: Rudolph Maté Cast: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/07/2005
    • Original Release: 1955
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 15,748

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    Closed Caption; Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby Digital English mono; English subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Old Friends [6:42]
    2. The Expedition [5:35]
    3. On the Way [8:13]
    4. A Secret Plan [7:45]
    5. Attacking the Camp [7:07]
    6. Splitting Up [6:32]
    7. Pretty [6:39]
    8. Clark Is Sick [7:13]
    9. She's My Woman [8:41]
    10. Shoshoni Land [6:52]
    11. Further West [6:19]
    12. Lewis vs. Clark [6:54]
    13. Ambush [7:31]
    14. Back in Washington [7:29]
    15. Returning to My People [8:08]

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    Editorial Reviews

    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. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    May 06, 2005: Regarding "Far Horizons" -- historical hilarity is about the case. Has nothing to do with the actual Lewis and Clark expedition. You could play a fun game with fellow Lewis and Clark fans. Give everyone a noise maker (a bell or goose call or sounden horn) and see who can signal the most errors -- in each scene! It is almost truly funny -- in the first half. Contrived phony romantic business from the beginning. Then it becomes impossible and melodramatic and completely corrupts the expedition - battles with Indians, men killed, and L&C at odds, and then estranged, because Clark wants to marry Sacagawea and keeps her in his tipi .... and ML wants to marry Juliet Hancock, who appears to be about age 35, but who is engaged to Clark, after breaking off an understanding with Lewis... Hidatsas in tipis? in the mountains? It was all filmed in the Tetons, even Camp Wood River. This was a big Paramount production with near 1st rate stars, but all that was big wasted opportunity. In spirit, fact, and scenery this film has virtually nothing to do with the historical Lewis and Clark Expedition. Sacagawea has no baby, and ends by speaking to Jefferson, in good English, in the White house. And you thought Hollywood's protrayals of American Indians were bad.