Wagon Master

Wagon Master

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Infobox Film
name = Wagon Master


caption = 1950 movie poster
director = John Ford
producer = John Ford
Merian C. Cooper
writer = John Ford (story)
Patrick Ford (screenplay)
Frank S. Nugent (screenplay)
starring = Ben Johnson
Harry Carey Jr.
Joanne Dru
Ward Bond
music = Richard Hageman
cinematography = Bert Glennon (director of photography)
editing = Jack Murray
Barbara Ford
distributor = RKO-Radio Pictures Inc.
released = April 19, 1950
runtime = 86 min.
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:53148
imdb_id = 0043117

"Wagon Master" is a 1950 Western film directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, and Ward Bond.

Plot

Learning of their ability as experienced horsemen, Mormon Elder Wiggs (Bond), hires Travis Blue (Johnson) and Sandy Owens (Carey) to guide a small group of Mormons across the West to the San Juan River country in southeastern Utah Territory, in 1849. [http://wm04.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:53148 "Wagon Master"] - at Allmovie] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043117/ "Wagon Master] - at IMDb] Arnold, Jeremy. [http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=59942&mainArticleId=146791 "Wagon Master"] at
Turner Classic Movies]

Production

Ford formulated the story, and then Patrick Ford (John Ford's son) and Frank S. Nugent wrote the script. Ford and Merian C. Cooper (with Ford and Cooper's Argosy Pictures as production company) were co-executive producers, with Lowell J. Farrell as associate producer. Music was done by Richard Hageman, and the picture was distributed by RKO Pictures.

Ford had been shooting the film "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" the year before (1948) in Monument Valley, near the town of Mexican Hat, Utah, close to the locations where he had also filmed "Stagecoach" (1939), "My Darling Clementine" (1946), and "Fort Apache" (1948). He wanted a different look for his next film and drove to Moab. "Wagon Master" was shot in less than a month, in 1949, for less than a million dollars. Filmed in black and white (there is a later computer-colorized version), on location, mainly northeast of the town of Moab, Utah in Professor Valley (with additional shotting at Spanish Valley southwest of Moab, and a few stage shots were done at Monument Valley). It was released on April 19, 1950. [http://www.discovermoab.com/movie.htm Movies Filmed in the Moab Area] (In Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document: www.discovermoab.com/pdf/movie.pdf)] [Stanton, Bette L. "Where God Put the West, Movie Making in the Desert." Moab, Utah: Four Corners Publications. page 78. 1994. ISBN 0944123023] [Murray, John A. "Cinema Southwest: An Illustrated Guide to the Movies and Their Locations." Northland Publishing: Flagstaff, Arizona. pages 76-93. 2000. ISBN 978-0873587471]

The television series "Wagon Train" (1957-1965), starring first Ward Bond and then John McIntire, was inspired by the film. (Ford directed one episode, but was otherwise not involved with it.)

References

External links

*imdb title | id=0043117 | title=Wagon Master
* [http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=59942&mainArticleId=146791 "Wagon Master"] at Turner Classic Movies


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