Wagon Master
Summary:
Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon wagon train headed for Utah. Along the way, the group, led by Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) hook up with two horse traders Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy Owens (Harry Carey Jr), the members of a traveling medicine show and a tribe of Navajo Indians. T... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Ben Johnson - (Travis Blue)
Harry Carey, Jr. - (Sandy Owens)
Ward Bond - (Elder Wiggs)
Joanne Dru - (Denver)
Charles Kemper - (Uncle Shiloh Clegg)
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Review:
John Ford's Wagon Master (1950) is a beautiful -- yet also very odd -- Western, coming in the midst of the director's "Cavalry Trilogy" (with Rio Grande to be filmed and released later the same year) and the sentimental sagebrush fable Three Godfathers. On the most obvious level, it marked the ascent to starring roles for Ben Jo... Continue >>
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