The Macahans
- Episode aired Jan 19, 1976
- 1h 59m
Zeb Macahan returns to the farm of Macahan to take his family to Oregon.Zeb Macahan returns to the farm of Macahan to take his family to Oregon.Zeb Macahan returns to the farm of Macahan to take his family to Oregon.
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- Ponca Chief
- (as W. Vincent St. Cyr)
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- GoofsZeb returns to his parents homestead in Virginia, which can be seen to be surrounded by - the Malibu Mountains. The Malibu Mountains of California could never be confused with the Blue Ridge of the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
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[first lines]
Narrator: It's been said that the west was won with guns and gold. It was not. It was won by the courage of simple people, who pushed their ponderous wagons forever west, through 200.000 square miles of awesome wilderness. Some were drawn by the lure of gold, but for the most part they were families, moved by the dream of a new beginning. This story is about such a family. Their name: Macahan. The sons and daughters of Katherine Macahan were destined to write their own brilliant pages into the history of the west. But in the beginning, the only member of the family who's name had already been touched by the stuff of legend was a man cut in the image of Bridger and Bowie and Jeremiah Johnson. His name: Zebulon Macahan.
- ConnectionsEdited into How the West Was Won: Provost Marshal (1977)
The movie deals with the fortune of the Macahan family who underwent a life of strange and irrational decisions. Timothy(?) Macahan is tired of the life in Virginia and also fears the upcoming civil war and thus decides to go west. With a single covered wagon and his brother Zeb as a scout he soon arrives in Nebraska. Despite the availability of a telegraph line he starts to worry about his parents who have stayed back in Virginia and decides to ride back more than 2000 miles through territory of war. After nothing is heard about him one of his sons follows him to Virginia and is thereby recruited by the Unionists. In the middle of the Shiloh battle he meets his father who is just about to die in the same minute. Isn't the USA bigger than than the town where I'm living?!
There is a teaching narrative which gives the impression that the event-driven soap opera is meant as kind of a lesson. The actors could have been better and more natural, some more extras could have filled the scenes. The way the story is told lacks the necessary grit which is a typical flaw of TV-Westerns. Camera work and score are mediocre.
4 / 10.
- cengelm
- Sep 6, 2005
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- Durch die Hölle nach Westen
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- Runtime1 hour 59 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1