The Far Horizons
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United States has just acquired Louisiana from France. An expedition led by Lewis and Clark is sent to survey the territory and go where no white man has gone before. Are they able to overcome the dangers with the help of Sacajawea?... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Far Horizons:

Fred MacMurray
Charlton Heston
Donna Reed
Barbara Hale
William Demarest
Alan Reed

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United States has just acquired Louisiana from France. An expedition led by Lewis and Clark is sent to survey the territory and go where no white man has gone before. Are they able to overcome the dangers with the help of Sacajawea?

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 9/10 by Dennis SchwartzAn inaccurate and dull telling of the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition that followed President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
User Review - 6/10 by Gregory Wtakes historical liberties but still fun to watch
User Review - 6/10 by George RThe story of Lewis and Clark's expedition; I would have enjoyed it more if historically correct. Clark's affair with Sacajawea was just more than a guy can take. When the expedition was portaging a big boat around Great Falls, yielded the best quote: Clark: "In the Army, nothing is impossible. Gaston: "In the Navy, they'd say it WAS impossible."
User Review - 6/10 by Megan .Cheese, cheese, cheese! To be fair, after doing some research... there are a lot of things about this film that ARE historically correct. On the other hand, there is one thing about this film that is NOT historically correct and it accounts for a huge flaw in the film that many cease to dismiss- to this day. Let us talk about Sacajawea. Sacajawea was pretty darn important in Lewis and Clark's expedition. She was a guide and an interpretor (her interpreting skills were hugely valuable and saw much use); and a very strong woman. If it had not been for her presence, Lewis and Clark would not have made it past the first tribe of Natives they encountered at all- and with her help, she was able to garner extra guides for them and provide for them many things they needed on their journey. In this film, she is portrayed as less of that which is discussed above, and more so as a lovesick woman, having a romance with Charlton Heston's " William Clark" in the film. William Clark and Sacajawea never had a romantic relationship. And to account for the "cheese, cheese, cheese!" at the top of the review, the fact that Charlton Heston was a big hunk in Hollywood at the time is highly accentuated by cheesy poses at points throughout the film- which viewers may or may not notice- and by the fact that they focus on his character a little more, in many ways. Combine that with the romance between him and Sacajawea, and it gets a little corny at times! On top of that, I feel that this film was much less exciting than it could have been, considering what an exciting journey, and event in history, this must have been for Lewis and Clark- and the rest of America! Geez. I guess this wasn't really on the studio's "big budget" list of productions.
User Review - 6/10 by Greg WFor what it is, an almost total fabrication of the events involved in the exploration of the Louisiana territory, the film is an enjoyable, beautifully shot adventure but for the real story look elsewhere. Donna Reed is ridiculously cast as Sacajawea, Katy Jurado who was actively working in Hollywood at the time would have been far more suitable. She gives an earnest reading of the part but if this is the best the studios could find for her after her Oscar win it's little wonder that she had moved over to TV within a few years. MacMurray although first billed actually disappears for several stretches of the film and Heston, who is ideal in this sort of picture, carries the bulk of the movie.
User Review - 6/10 by Bill TAh yes, the 50s. when loose racism still was the norm, when Hollywood strained to tell fair stories about relations between the white man and the indian, while hiring white actors to play indians. In this case, Donna Reed (!!) plays the indian who gets in between Lewis and Clark during their exploration of the Louisiana purchase. a somewhat... interesting take on history fo' sure! It's not bad for what it is.
User Review - 6/10 by Ashley HFar Horizons is a good film. Charlton Heston and Fred MacMurray are good as Lewis & Clark. Donna Reed is decent as Sacajawea. The script is decent but could have been better. I liked it because I enjoy learning about history.
User Review - 4/10 by John TOne of the corniest turkeys I've ever seen in my life. Donna Reed as a Native American is absolutely hysterical.
User Review - 4/10 by William CInaccurate portrayal of Lewis and Clark. Expedition sets out and seems to hike to Pacific Ocean in a few months with no winters spent at Mandan nor Clatsop. Sacajawea is given no mention of her pregnancy nor birth to Pompey on the trip. Many die in the film fighting Indians when in fact only one person on expedition died, and that was from appendicitis. As soon as expedition reached Pacific Ocean they are back in Washington D.C. giving their reports to President Jefferson when in fact neither men returned to nation's capital. In fact Meriwether Lewis mysteriously died in Kentucky on his way alone to Washington D.C. Interesting how all the Indians spoke very good English with no accents!
User Review - 2/10 by Edith NWhy Even Bother? There is, to the best of my knowledge, no evidence of any kind that any romances blossomed during the Journey of Discovery. This is in large part because the only woman to go along on the trip was married. In fact, she gave birth to a son during the trip. Certainly the end of the movie has been fabricated out of whole cloth. To the point that it gave me the impression that Martha Jefferson was actually a character in it, an utter impossibility. I'll admit I wasn't paying the strictest attention, but it seemed to me as though at least one of the men--and there didn't seem to be enough men, leaving out York and Pompey, neither of whom appear at all--was killed in an accident, which was flatly wrong. They lost one man, probably to appendicitis. Of course, all things considered, there's no reason to expect anything approaching authenticity out of this movie. Because explorers Meriwether Lewis (Fred MacMurray) and William Clark (Charlton Heston) encounter Sacagawea, and she's Donna Reed. They have been sent by Thomas Jefferson (Herbert Heyes) to explore the vast territories acquired from France in the Louisiana Purchase and find a route to the Pacific Ocean, for preference one navigable by boat, the legendary Northwest Passage. This is officially the only historically accurate moment in the movie, or near enough to. It is also true, admittedly, that Sacagawea--or Janey, as Clark starts calling her--was a slave taken from her Shoshone people. She was probably given to Charbonneau (Alan Reed). However, in this version, it's after Lewis and Clark get there, and she runs away from him to join their expedition and lead them to the Great Salt Water, or whatever stupid fake Indianism they use. You may note a distaste for the telling of the story. It's because this is a terrible telling of the story. Someone on IMDB is complaining about the absence of York. This is the politically correct complaint about the failings with the expedition. York, you see, was Clark's slave. However, I really do feel the absence of Pompey to be the bigger issue here. Pompey was in fact christened Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was the son of Sacagawea and, obviously, Charbonneau. He is more important than York in that his existence makes the whole story fall apart--I'd argue that the actual Discovery aspect of things is a subplot to hang the romance on. With the existence of Pompey and the continued presence in the expedition of his father, you can't make a plausible case for a romance with Clark. And even beyond that, this just isn't a good movie. It goes without saying that Donna Reed's makeup isn't good; there isn't enough makeup in the world to make Donna Reed look like a Shoshone woman. What's even worse is that there are shots where her makeup hasn't been applied correctly, and you can see a strip of her natural skin colour along her hairline. The costumes are simply ludicrous. Poor Fred MacMurray gets stuck with a pastel velvet coat at the beginning. Barbara Hale as his fiancée, Julia Hancock, gets slightly better clothing, but not by much, and the "frontier" costumes are the worst of all. Two of the men look to be wearing not coonskin caps by skunkskin caps. The script is clearly tailored to a '50s perspective on how people of that era talked, largely peppered with how people in the '50s talked. And while Clark did in fact spell "Sacagawea" eight different ways in seventeen mentions of her in his journal, there's no evidence he ever called her anything else. So let's get down to brass tacks. Why Donna Reed? This, I cannot entirely answer. No one seems certain. I suspect, however, that it's to give the character the most wholesome nature possible before throwing in an interracial romance. Remember, we were still under the Code, and miscegenation was still forbidden in the film. (This strikes me as yet another reason to avoid the romance, but there we are.) Of course, that's why the pair can't end up at the end--we will not speak of Fred MacMurray's eventual probably-suicide on the Natchez Trace, either, apparently. You can't have a white man and an Indian woman end a movie Happily Ever After, and I have to tell you, the description she's given of what a white woman does as a wife doesn't much appeal to me, either. But to even consider a Shoshone woman in a relationship with Charlton Heston, she's got to be a squeaky-clean Shoshone woman, and even in that dreadful makeup, Donna Reed still qualified.

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