The Far Horizons

Indians create an ambush using a net drawn across the river to stop Lewis and Clark.

Upstream the Indians push logs into the water to hit the canoes.

The team try to push them away causing the canoes to rock - during which you can see the shiny hull of two canoes come out of the water - clearly made of fiberglass.

During her talk with Sacajawea, Julia calls The President's Mansion "The White House".

The scene takes place in 1806; the earliest reference to The President's Mansion being called "The White House" is in 1811.

The romance between Clark and Sacajawea, and the Indian warrior's jealousy of Clark are fiction.

Sacajawea was married to a French-Canadian fur trapper when she met Clark, and there no historical basis to suggest that her and Clark's relationship was anything other than professional.

Needless to say, she did not accompany Clark back to Washington, as shown in the film.

Turbulent adventure set against the rich ,romantic tapestry of early Louisiana state . United States has just acquired Louisiana from France .

I thought it was appropriate to reflect on the following issue, "Is historical accuracy relevant to the quality of a film?" If it is manufactured to provide a true representation of history, maybe so.

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.

Like every movies made from the 40's to 60's, especially the Western genre movies were stupidly dominated with non-stop annoying music bombarding from the beginning to the end. All the Hollywood movie companies hired composers, orchestras, conductors....

Following the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, US President Thomas Jefferson (Herbert Heyes) enlists Capt. Meriwether Lewis (Fred MacMurray) and Lt.

'The Far Horizons' is a film in which an expeditionary force, commanded by Captain Meriwether Lewis (Fred MacMurray) and Lt William Clark (Charlton Heston), sets out to explore newly acquired US territory. The film begins with an atmospheric party at which the news of the American expansion is broken, and arrangements are made to investigate.

En 1803, Napoleón Bonaparte, Primer Cónsul de Francia, vendía la Luisiana a Estados Unidos. Un territorio que corría desde la frontera canadiense hasta el golfo de México en una extensión equivalente a cuatro veces la de la España actual, explorado por los franceses en el siglo XVII y bautizado como Luisiana en honor de su rey Luis XIV.

The Far Horizons is a 1955 technicolour extravaganza based on the Lewis/Clark expedition of 1803-1805, that explored the North western part of what later became the contiguous part of the United States. Following the Louisana purchase, what is now Washington, Oregon and Idaho, (as well as about half of Montana and parts of several neighbouring states ) was not claimed by the United States or any foreign power, such as Spain, which still controlled much territory in the south-west.

Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston portray Lewis and Clark, famed historians who explored the Louisianna Territory as per the instructions of President Thomas Jefferson. This plays very much like a cowboys and indians type of actioneer, but without actual cowboys.