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Horizons lointains

Original title: The Far Horizons
  • 1955
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  • 1h 48m
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Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, and Fred MacMurray in Horizons lointains (1955)
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After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.

  • Director
    • Rudolph Maté
  • Writers
    • Della Gould Emmons
    • Winston Miller
    • Edmund H. North
  • Stars
    • Fred MacMurray
    • Charlton Heston
    • Donna Reed
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    • Director
      • Rudolph Maté
    • Writers
      • Della Gould Emmons
      • Winston Miller
      • Edmund H. North
    • Stars
      • Fred MacMurray
      • Charlton Heston
      • Donna Reed
    • 31User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray
    • Captain Meriwether Lewis
    Charlton Heston
    Charlton Heston
    • Lt. William Clark
    Donna Reed
    Donna Reed
    • Sacajawea
    Barbara Hale
    Barbara Hale
    • Julia Hancock
    William Demarest
    William Demarest
    • Sgt. Gass
    Alan Reed
    Alan Reed
    • Charboneau
    Eduardo Noriega
    Eduardo Noriega
    • Cameahwait
    Larry Pennell
    Larry Pennell
    • Wild Eagle
    Argentina Brunetti
    Argentina Brunetti
    • Old Crone
    Julia Montoya
    • Crow woman
    Ralph Moody
    Ralph Moody
    • Le Borgne
    Herbert Heyes
    Herbert Heyes
    • President Thomas Jefferson
    Lester Matthews
    Lester Matthews
    • Mr. Hancock
    Helen Wallace
    Helen Wallace
    • Mrs. Marsha Hancock
    Walter Reed
    Walter Reed
    • Cruzatte (helmsman)
    Fran Bennett
    Fran Bennett
    • Undetermined Supporting Role
    • (uncredited)
    Chris Willow Bird
    Chris Willow Bird
    • Indian
    • (uncredited)
    Joe Canutt
    Joe Canutt
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    • Director
      • Rudolph Maté
    • Writers
      • Della Gould Emmons
      • Winston Miller
      • Edmund H. North
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    7DKosty123

    Freddie Mack Goes Fishing While Heston & Reed Burn

    This is not a movie that is accurate historically. The great thing is seeing a well known cast in color making the thing entertaining. While Barbara Hale is best known as Della Street, Perry Mason's Secretary, she is a second banana here in her role as Julia. She appears in the early part of the film and at the end.

    What is interesting is that Donna Reed, Fred MacMurray, & Charlton Heston all get equal billing at a time when women's rights really had not started. In fact, Reed is so good that I didn't even realize it was here until I checked the cast list. This is not the typical 1950's film to be sure.

    Trouble is that the film really has no chance to get to the true story of Lewis & Clark as it is too busy with fictional relationships to have time. William Demerest (Uncle Charlie on My Three Sons) joins Fred here as he would later on TV. Considering how much fishing Fred is known to have done, I bet he got some in on breaks on this river location shooting.

    The movie is entertainment, just not a classic. Paramounts Vista Vision hasn't hurt the quality of the film photography over the years either.
    TxMike

    Nice western movie and vehicle for stars McMurray, Heston, and Reed.

    "The Far Horizons", made in 1955, is based on the 1803 to 1806 Lewis and Clark expedition to discover a water route from St Louis to the Pacific ocean. It is a nice vehicle for the three stars of the movie.

    Fred McMurray had already made 70 movies, and Donna Reed 35 movies, when they made this one. Charlton Heston had only made 13 prior, and a age 30, this one was made right before he became a giant star in the "biblical" series of movies.

    Shortly after this movie, McMurray went on to star in the TV series "My Three Sons", and likewise Donna Reed in the "Donna Reed Show" TV series. In this movie, at age 34, she plays the teenage Sacajawea, and does it very well.

    Recall that in the 50s most western movies played on the "savage Indian" theme and this one fits that description too. The writer and director took lots of "literary license" with the Lewis and Clark story so it is not to be considered historically accurate. Still, it gives a good, meaningful dramatization of a great historical event in the USA.

    In addition, most of the journey filming was done at or near the original Lewis and Clark trail, and the movie contains great scenery of mountains and rivers.

    Overall I found the movie very enjoyable, 7 of 10, and fun to watch such veteran actors in a movie almost 50 years ago. And especially since the USA just this year (2000) released the new one-dollar coin commemorating Sacajawea.
    5bkoganbing

    As If They Didn't Have Enough Problems

    The Far Horizons marked Fred MacMurray's return to the Paramount lot where he started his career to co-star with up and coming Charlton Heston in a story of the Lewis&Clark expedition. A landmark event in American history, the story itself strangely has been ignored by Hollywood except for this version. And it doesn't do the journey justice.

    But we have to remember that the film is based on a fictional historical novel Sacajawea of the Shoshonis. So the romance between Donna Reed as Sacajawea and Heston as Clark just never happened. In real life she was the wife of Charbonneau the French trapper played by Alan Reed who did not behave as despicably as portrayed here.

    Merieweather Lewis was in fact Thomas Jefferson's secretary and Jefferson sending him west to head the expedition was no less than having Tom's eyes and ears right there on the trail. Lewis was a most intense fellow and he would be a suicide in 1809, Clark outlived him by many years. But one thing he did not have was any romantic rivalry with William Clark over the character that Barbara Hale plays, a Virginia planter's daughter and neighbor of Jefferson at Monticello.

    As this film would have it, Lewis was mad because Clark had two girls and he had none. The two faced a lot of problems on the trip, but jealousy over romance wasn't one of them.

    The film was produced by William Pine and William Thomas who co-produced a whole bunch of B films for Paramount. Bill Pine learned his trade being an associate producer with Cecil B. DeMille. The film was shot on location and bears no small resemblance to some DeMille productions and even more so to King Vidor's classic Northwest Passage.

    Still though I wish we just had a straight account of the trip without the phony romance.
    6jjnxn-1

    Colorful adventure but not true history

    For 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.
    6Bunuel1976

    THE FAR HORIZONS (Rudolph Mate', 1955) **1/2

    A crucial event in American history is rendered dull and unexciting by Hollywood convention; the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition which in the early 1800s conquered unclaimed territory for the ever-growing United States. Production values are glossy and there are a few action highlights, but the handling is uninspired and the slowly-paced film emerges an undistinguished effort overall.

    Casting is variable: Fred MacMurray makes for a staid Lewis but Charlton Heston's Clark is, as ever, at home in such larger-than-life surroundings; Donna Reed (as an Indian squaw!) and Barbara Hale provide the none-too-convincing romantic interest - which actually takes up a good deal of the running-time (before the expedition, both men love Hale but she prefers Heston; when the latter meets up with Reed, they fall for each other - but complications of the boring variety arise when it's revealed that she's been promised by the tribe which has abducted her to a villainous French trapper/guide and, even when she finally escapes and goes back to her people, she's spoken for by a rash young Indian brave!). This allows Heston to engage in fisticuffs and he even falls out with MacMurray, but the audience's interest is never more than dimly aroused; however, veteran William Demarest is on hand as a level-headed sergeant who actually keeps the company together during such trying times.

    Anyway, the film is watchable enough in itself - though it's better approached, perhaps, as a Western rather than a widescreen spectacular (with which Heston would soon come to be identified)...and, in any case, it's miles behind such celebrated 'epics' of American colonialism as John Ford's DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939) and King Vidor's NORTHWEST PASSAGE (1940).

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    • Trivia
      According to scriptwriter Winston Miller, there was a scene where Charlton Heston is coming down the river and comes across a body on a sand spit with "so many arrows in him he looked like a pin cushion." When Heston uttered the line, "He's dead," the audience found it laughable and the scene changed their acceptance of the film's credibility. The scene had to be re-edited with Heston's line deleted.
    • Goofs
      The film depicts a number of troops in the expedition meeting their deaths at the hands of natives or other causes. As a matter of fact, only a single member of the Corps of Discovery died in the entire expedition - Sgt. Charles Floyd, of acute appendicitis.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Colgate Comedy Hour: Host: Charlton Heston: Guests: Fred MacMurray, Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Dick Kerr, Chiquita & Johnson (1955)

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    • Release date
      • February 10, 1956 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Horizontes Desconocidos
    • Filming locations
      • Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
    • Production company
      • Pine-Thomas Productions
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      • $1,600,000
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 48m(108 min)

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