The Covered Wagon (1923)
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
- 개봉일
- 1923-03-15
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (19)
- 상영 시간(분)
- 1시간 38분
- 장르
- 모험, 서부, 로맨스
- 감독
- James Cruze
출연진
- Lois Wilson — Molly Wingate
- Alan Hale — Sam Woodhull
- Ernest Torrence — Jackson
- Tully Marshall — Jim Bridges
- Charles Ogle — Mr. Wingate
- J. Warren Kerrigan — Will Banion
- Ethel Wales — Mrs. Wingate
- Guy Oliver — Kit Carson
- Johnny Fox — Jed Wingate
- Frank Albertson — Bit (uncredited)
흥미로운 사실
- 촬영지: 캘리포니아주 및 유타주
The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent epic Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J. Warren Kerrigan starred as Will Banion and Lois Wilson as Molly Wingate. On their quest they experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack.
Production
The film was a major production for its time, with an estimate budget of $782,000.
In his 1983 book Classics of the Silent Cinema, radio and TV host Joe Franklin claimed this film was "the first American epic not directed by Griffith".
In the 1980 documentary Hollywood: A Celebration of American Silent Cinema, Jesse L. Lasky Jr. maintained that the goal of director James Cruze was " ... to elevate the Western, which had always been sort of a potboiler kind of film, to the status of an epic".
The film required a large cast and film crew and many extras, and was filmed in various locations, including Palm Springs, California and several places in Nevada and Utah. The dramatic buffalo hunt and buffalo stampede scenes were filmed on Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah. During filming for the movie, seven bison from the Antelope Island Bison Herd were shot and killed.
The covered wagons gathered by Paramount from all over the Southwest were not replicas, but the real wagons that had brought the pioneers west. They were cherished heirlooms of the families who owned them. The producers offered the owners $2 a day (equal to $37.79 today) and feed for their stock if they would bring the wagons for the movie.
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