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Three Faces West is a american film of genre Drama directed by Bernard Vorhaus released in USA on 3 july 1940 with John Wayne
Three Faces West (1940)
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Add to a movie listThree Faces West is a 1940 American drama film starring John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie and Charles Coburn.
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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.Actors
John Wayne
(John Phillips)
Sigrid Gurie
(Leni 'Lenchen' Braun)
Charles Coburn
(Dr. Karl Braun)
Russell Simpson
(Minister)
Spencer Charters
(Dr. 'Nunk' Atterbury)
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