Escort Wrst is a good solid western. Certainly not The Big Country or Shane but not bad either. The key to the movie is what you think of Victor Mature ( Ben Lassiter). If you like him you will like the movie, if you do not you will not. Why? He is in about 80% of the movie. Mature actually plays a Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd, Randolph Scott type action hero and equates himself well. He plays a Confederate Captain heading to Oregon with his daughter to live with his late wife's relatives. He gets involved with victims of an Indian attack including two sisters: Beth and. Martha Drury.played by. Elaine Stewart and Faith. Domergue respectively. Beth is the good sister and Martha the not so nice one. Spoilers ahead: Care to guess which one ends up with Ben and his daughter and which one is killed by the Indians? I usually like Faith but not here. Martha is a miserable and unpleasant woman and her beauty is hidden most of the film and it takes away from the film. Anyway I give the movie 6/10 stars. Slightly above average.
Review of Escort West
