SUN FEB 16, 2025 1:00 PM Carson Lund Presents WESTWARD THE WOMEN $10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by filmmaker Carson Lund ‘Sunday Print Edition’ This event has passed
ABOUT THE FILM: One hundred midwestern mail order brides embark on a California-bound wagon train in this late-career gem from journeyman director William “Wild Bill” Wellman, whose simultaneously gruff and tender touch turns a cornball script by Frank Capra into a stark study of sorrow and solidarity on the frontier. Robert Taylor anchors the colorful ensemble as a cold but principled trail guide who’s gradually unmoored by the toughness and perseverance of his female company, even as the harsh landscape claims more and more lives. An incident-rich adventure in which the hokum and the hardship coexist in precarious balance, WESTWARD THE WOMEN concludes on a note of seemingly incongruous exaltation that’s nonetheless spiked with an understanding of the deadly toll of westward expansion. – Written by filmmaker Carson Lund FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus COUNTRY: USA