Poor James Polk. Nobody now knows or cares what the eleventh president of the United States looked like so they didn't bother to make Addison Richards (nearly twenty years his senior) look remotely like him in this lively CinemaScope potboiler with the usual mixture of imposing location work and obvious studio exteriors that reunited the star and director of 'I Married a Monster from Outer Space' in the latter's final film before the latter disappeared into TV.
Review of The Oregon Trail
