When it comes to things that seem difficult, everything seems to be overlapping. Here, it is about Rick Coleman, the leader of the settlers who have a fateful journey in their lives. Now, they seem to be going through Indian attack, storms, deserts, and so on into a host of strange events in their lives.
Raoul Walsh believed that John Wayne would become a big star after his epic Western but he did not. A combo of factors account for this failure, not just Wayne's stiff acting but also the cool reception of the horseopera itself.
Interesting early wide-screen spectacle with indifferent acting and story.
New Yorker
July 15, 2013
Integrating the settlers' passionate mortal conflicts into the landscape, Walsh turns the theatrical limitations of early sound technique to an advantage, composing vast, static tableaux with the mighty breadth and noble pace of epic stanzas.
