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The Last Wagon (1956)
Director: Delmer Daves
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Like Broken Arrow, a liberal Western, but contriving some complexity around the Widmark character: the son of a white missionary brought up by Comanches, he exacts revenge on the four brothers who raped and killed his Indian wife and children, falls in with the more or less racist members of a wagon train, and is left with the survivors on his hands after an Indian attack. Stylishly directed, superbly shot on location, and with a first-rate performance from Widmark, it retains a certain fascinating ambiguity: its hero, displaying an inflexible sense of purpose and charismatic qualities of leadership, could equally well be defined as an embryo Fascist.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Delmer Daves
Producer: William Hawks
Cast: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig, James Drury, Timothy Carey, Nick Adams full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 99 mins
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