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Wagon Master is a 1950 American Western film produced and directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, and Ward Bond. The story follows a Mormon pioneer wagon train across treacherous desert to the San Juan River in Utah.
Wagon Master: Directed by John Ford. With Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond. Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
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- Drama, Western
- John Ford
- 1950-04-22
When a group of Mormons are run out of town for their religious beliefs, Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) searches for a wagon master to guide the outcasts to the San Juan Valley.
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- Ben Johnson
- John Ford
- Western
A Mormon wagon train hires ragged horse traders Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy Owens (Harry Carey, Jr.) as their wagon master. They would encounter a stranded wagon of drunken entertainers, Navajo Indians, and the criminal Clegg family on the run from a posse. This is director John Ford.
Wagon Master (1950) was a Western Film directed by John Ford and produced by John Ford, Merian C. Cooper and Lowell J. Farrell. SYNOPSIS. Fine Ford Western about two rugged cowhands (Ford stalwarts Johnson and Bond) who join a wagon train of faithful, hardy Mormons heading for Utah.
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- John Ford
- Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr.
- Western
Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. Another Fordian epic positing the American community as the sum of its bands of outsiders, with a Mormon wagon train bound for the westward Promised Land in alliance with a pair of...
Jan 1, 2000 · Wagon Master Review. Perhaps because it chooses to make heroes of a couple of ordinary, second-string cowhands (Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.) rather than John Wayne or Henry Fonda, this utterly...
