Three Faces West is a
1940 film starring
John
Wayne,
Sigrid Gurie and
Charles Coburn. An unusual film, with a
political agenda that seems to be part pro New Deal, it is part
anti-fascist and part pro good old American community values. It
sometimes comes across a more conservative answer to
The Grapes of Wrath.
Plot
Two
refugees, a medical doctor and his 20-something-year-old daughter
arrive in the USA from Nazi-annexed
Austria end up in becoming the much-needed physician and nurse
in a small North
Dakota
farm town. The local town located in the
area known as the
Dust Bowl and is being
hard hit by the drought and dust storms. The local farmers and
townspeople want to try to save their farms and the town by
adopting newer farming methods, but are eventually convinced by the
Department of Agriculture, and the continuing dust storms to pack
up the whole town and move en masse to an undeveloped portion of
Oregon, where a new dam will create a water supply for them to
build a new farming community.
In a modern-day version of an old
wagon
train, the town moves to Oregon under John Phillip's
leadership, not without differences of opinion and friction among
the followers. The doctor and his daughter take a detour to San
Francisco when they learn that the daughter's fiance was not killed
by the Nazis in Austria, but has escaped and come to America. It
turns out that the fiance has embraced fascism, which sends the
doctor and his daughter back to rejoin the transplanted town in
Oregon, where the daughter marries Phillips.
Cast
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