Reviewed by weezeralfalfa 6 / 10 Missed opportunity to present a realistic epic journey There are far better westerns and far better Fred MacMurray films out there! Overall, this is a sloppy film and one I'd just as soon skip. Along the way, there's a lot of nonsense and really, really bombastic music! He heads there in a wagon train to determine if the rumor is true.
There's a rumor that President Polk is sending soldiers disguised as settlers into the disputed Oregon Territory. If you care, here is the plot: Fred plays Neal Harris, a reporter from back East. And these little details are why I was not enthralled with this movie.
Such is the care the writers and director took in making this film. But instead of socking him then, he backs up.thus allowing the whipper to whip him!! Who is THAT stupid?!! Fred.when you are standing NEXT to a guy with a whip, he cannot use it on you.get it?! Apparently not. The nasty guy is whipping the snot out of people and Fred is literally standing NEXT to the guy. President Polk had long hair and styled it in a mullet.but here he's nearly as bald as Kojak! And, often characters do things that simply make no sense.such as MacMurray's character defending a thief even when it's obvious the guy is stealing as well as his crazy fight with the guy with a whip early in the movie. But the telegraph was never used until 1844 and telegraph wires didn't make it West until a decade later.īut anachronisms aren't the only problem in the film. The same goes for the repeating rifles you see in the movie.they didn't come out until about 1860 and were very rare even then.but the natives and soldiers all seem to have them! And, it's not just about weapons.at one point Fred MacMurray's character talks about sending a telegraph from out west to his employers on the East Coast. But Samuel Colt didn't make his prototype revolver in 1847 and didn't even open up his own company until 1855.so there would have been no Colt revolvers in 1846. The movie talks about the new 'Colt revolver' and show the soldiers using them in 1846. Let's mention some of the many anachronisms in this film. And, for an ex-history teacher like me, it's really annoying! In the case of "The Oregon Trail", it is chock full of anachronisms.so many that you cannot believe that the writers did any research at all to make sure they were getting the facts right. However, sometimes these anachronisms aren't that obvious and make their way into movies. For example, if you see jet planes fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg.that would be a serious anachronism. Reviewed by MartinHafer 3 / 10 Obviously this film was not written by a history professor!Īn anachronism is something that appears in the wrong time period.
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