Search results
Whitman and Wyatt take the women to St. Joseph, Missouri, where Conestoga wagons, horses, and mules await, along with 15 trail hands hired by Buck. Ito, a determined if diminutive Japanese man, persuades Buck to take him on as the cook.
Westward Ho the Wagons! is a 1956 American Western film starring Fess Parker and Kathleen Crowley and produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Mary Jane Carr's novel Children of the Covered Wagon, the film was produced by Bill Walsh, directed by William Beaudine, and released to theatres on December 20, 1956 by Buena Vista Distribution ...
- The Gold Rush (1925) Director: Charles Chaplin. The prospect of finding gold in the uncharted territories beyond the frontier swept like wildfire through the popular imagination of 19th-century America.
- The Wind (1928) Director: Victor Sjöström. While inclement weather is a staple of many a frontier yarn, few come as elementally charged as this silent masterwork from the great Swedish filmmaker Victor Sjöström.
- The Big Trail (1930) Director: Raoul Walsh. The vast, wide-open spaces of the frontier lent themselves to cinematic visions of escalating grandeur. By the late 1920s, Hollywood had begun to embrace the idea of widescreen presentations.
- Wagon Master (1950) Director: John Ford. Much like The Big Trail, Wagon Master follows a caravan west, this time to the virgin lands of San Juan river country, where a Mormon family intends to establish a settlement.
Jan 27, 2021 · Set in the early to mid-1800s, the Wagons West series focuses on the fictional Holt family of American frontiersmen. The main character is Michael “Whip” Holt, a wagonmaster who faces danger and seduction in each book's adventure.
- Premise
- Cast and Characters
- Crossovers and Sequels
- Production
- Release
- Reception
The series follows the post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family as they leave Tennessee, journey to Fort Worth, Texas, and join a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon (the Duttons are never on the actual Oregon Trail itself), before settling in Montanato establish what would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch.
Main
1. Sam Elliott as Shea Brennan, an employee of the Pinkerton Agency leading the expedition. Brennan is a former captain who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His wife Helen and daughter both die of smallpox right before the start of the expedition. While mourning their deaths, he crematedthem by setting fire to their house and contemplated suicide, but was interrupted by the arrival of Thomas. Brennan acts as the rugged and commanding leader of the wagon train, frequentl...
Recurring
1. Alex Fine as Grady, an experienced cowboy and the leader of a crew of six drovers, who agrees to help an inexperienced crew round up longhorns for their long journey. 2. Gratiela Brancusias Noemi, a Romani widow who loses her husband in an accident and has to raise two young boys on her own. She becomes dependent on and romantically interested in Thomas, seeing him as the man who will replace her late husband as a caretaker. 3. Anna Fiamora as Risa, a young immigrant woman who is married t...
Guest stars
1. Billy Bob Thornton as Marshal Jim Courtright. 2. Tom Hanks as General[a] George Meade. In a flashback to the Battle of Antietam, he consoles James Dutton after many of his fellow soldiers are killed, before the latter gets taken captive. Hanks' wife, Rita Wilson, plays Carolyn the storekeeper. 3. Graham Greene as Spotted Eagle, a Crow elder who helps Elsa and who also points James to Paradise Valley, the final destination for the Dutton family. 4. Dawn Olivieri as Claire Dutton, James Dutt...
Paramount has communicated several iterations of their plans for more episodes. In the end, none of these resulted in more episodes of 1883. The show was initially presented as a limited series. In February 2022, Paramount announced that "additional episodes" would follow the first season. It was later announced that additional episodes for season ...
Development
In February 2021, Taylor Sheridan signed a five-year deal with ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Group following the success of Yellowstone. Under the deal, he would create new series for both studios. One of these was a prequel to Yellowstone, set to be broadcast on Paramount+, initially called Y: 1883. Sheridan said that he struggled with writer's block after selling the concept to Paramount+, but he managed to overcome it. While working on another series, Mayor of Kingstown, Sheridan noticed...
Casting
Sheridan went on to make Paramount hire May, a relative unknown, before he was even finished writing the script, because "it won't work if we don't get her."As he explained in a December 2022 interview; "When you find talents like Isabel [May], you just want to work with them again, and again, and again, and again." On August 4, 2021, it was announced that Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Sam Elliott had joined the cast. A further announcement on August 21 confirmed Isabel May and announced that La...
Filming
Filming on the series started in August 2021 in Texasand concluded in Montana in January 2022. Scenes that took place in urban centers were filmed in Dallas, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas and Granbury, Texas. Also, a new, permanent, Western town with 26 structures was built at the Yellowstone Film Ranch. Rural scenes were filmed at a variety of locations, primarily in Texas. The Dutton Ranch scenes were filmed at the real Chief Joseph Ranch in Darby, Montana; the massive home is also used for the...
On November 8, 2021, a first-look trailer for the series was released; a full trailer was released on December 3. The series made its TV premiere on December 25, 2021, on CMT. The first episode was run on Paramount Network, who ordered the show before they moved it to streaming on affiliated platform Paramount+ during its development, as part of pr...
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 89% based on 27 reviews with an average score of 7.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "1883 can feel too overdetermined to be a properly rough-hewn Western, but viewers will want to saddle up for Sam Elliott's commanding star turn." Metacriticgave the series a weighted avera...
A calm, clear-thinking pioneer (Fess Parker) attempts to lead a wagon train through territory occupied by Pawnees and Sioux. Along the way, the hardy settlers face horse thieves, kidnappers, and...
People also ask
Who starred in Westward Ho the wagons?
Is Westward Ho based on a true story?
Is westward the women a good movie?
When did westward the women come out?
Who plays a wagon man in 'wagon man'?
Who is the leader of the wagon train?
Westward Ho, the Wagons! is a 1956 live-action Disney western film. Based on Mary Jane Carr's novel Children of the Covered Wagon, the film starred Fess Parker and George Reeves. It was released to theaters on December 20, 1956.
