Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Listonixio
Fresh and Exciting
Bumpy Chip
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Neil Welch
Arrested for killing the men who murdered his wife and sons, "Comanche" Todd survives being chained to a wagon wheel when Apache ambush the wagon train leaving only 6 young people as well as Todd: it falls to him to lead them to safety through hostile territory.Richard Widmark has a meaty action hero leading role as Todd in this 1956 western. The other characters are an interesting bunch, with Nick Adams in the thankless role of aggressive ass, Tommy Rettig as substitute son, and Felicia Farr as tasty young thing who could easily adapt to frontier wife.The action is good, the music is typical western fare, and the scenery is wonderful. This is a very traditional western, but a good one.
xredgarnetx
As with the same year's BACKLASH, star Richard Widmark puts his stamp of authority on what otherwise might have been a routine Western. He ends up guiding what's left of a wagon train family to safety from the Apaches. Most of the survivors are not exactly thrilled with this wild and wooly frontiersman leading them anywhere, and it is all Widmark can do to keep them from painting big red targets on each other's chests and backs for the Indians to shoot at. LASSIE's Tommy Rettig is the juvenile in the group. The female leads are great to look at in a 1956 kind of way. With the exception of Nick "Johnny Yuma" Adams, none of the rest of this cast is particularly well known, but veteran director Delmer Daves keeps them in line and believable as a group of frightened tenderfeet. James Drury, who would go on to fame as THE VIRGINIAN on TV, is in the film for bit.
alexandre michel liberman (tmwest)
The Last Wagon is up to a certain moment a great film. From that moment on it loses its greatness, it is just like a wild horse which has to be tamed to conform to the norms of the fifties. While it is wild, it is great. What reaches you is the hysterical mood , Widmark being dragged by a horse, chained to a wagon wheel, the brutal killings , all this blended to an impressive scenery. Unfortunately this mood is broken by such an abrupt change at the end that it is almost like somebody else took hold of the movie. The love relationship between Fecicia Farr and Widmark has a sensuality not at all common at those times, specially in westerns.
mmegiraldi
I will not say anything about the end of this good movie, except that it doesn't "fit" with the rest of it, and it's sort of a sudden downturn.Richard Widmark is great, George Matthew's character last less than 20 minutes and you do think that was more than enough, the survivors are a solid and heterogenous group of characters, albeit a little stereotyped (Daddy's little girl, Daddy's Other little girl, etc) and even the Indians (Apaches if I'm correct) had their reasons (instead of the usual 'let's kill the palefaces because we do exist for that').But the end of the movie do seems to be imposed by a VIP of the studio who didn't cared about a more logic, honest and dramatic finale and had his own version of 'Happy End' imposed on the story.Anyway, the tale of a group of teenagers having to trust a renegade 'indian lover' wanted for three murders (and after he had committed a brutal fourth under their noses) is well delivered, and is a good entertainer.
