Wagon Master
John Ford's lusty successor to "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"
Out of Print:
Future availability is unknown
on most orders of $75+
|
Brand New
|
Also released as:
Wagon Master (Blu-ray)
for $21.60
DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 15, 2009
- Originally Released: 1950
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey, Jr. & Ward Bond | |
Performer: | Charles Kemper, Alan Mowbray, Jane Darwell, Ruth Clifford, Russell Simpson, James Arness, Francis Ford, Fred Libby & Hank Worden | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Jack Murray | |
Screenwriting by | Patrick Ford & Frank S. Nugent | |
Composition by | Richard Hageman | |
Art Direction by | James Basevi | |
Director of Photography: | Bert Glennon |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Ford considered it among his personal favorites, and a handful of Ford's biggest admirers consider it a neglected masterpiece. (I do too.)
Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Rating: A --
It's one of the most likable of all the Westerns directed by John Ford.
Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's as gentle and warm a film as [John Ford] ever made and it follows a classic Ford theme: the creation of a community in the west...
Full Review
Seanax.com
Rating: 3/4 --
Cinematographer Bert Glennon comes up with a number of impressive artistic compositions, although the film's biggest treat is seeing Ben Johnson given the opportunity to show off his sly charm and easygoing demeanor.
Full Review
Film Frenzy
Rating: 7/10 --
...a simple, straightforward film telling a simple, straightforward story, artistic in its design and execution and poetic in its telling.
Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Rating: 5/5 --
one of Ford's masterworks, a sublime, crisp, unpretentious western that doesn't wear its mythos on its sleeve
Full Review
Filmcritic.com
Wagon Master is a good outdoor action film, done in the best John Ford manner. That means careful character development and movement, spiced with high spots of action, good drama and leavening comedy moments
Full Review
Variety
Product Description:
John Ford said of this film, "WAGON MASTER came closest to what I hoped to achieve." A relaxed epic Western without major stars, it features Ward Bond as Jonathan Wiggs, a sardonic Mormon taking a wagon train of his people to Utah's San Juan Valley with freewheeling cowpokes Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy Owens (Harry Carey Jr.) as guides. En route, the group comes upon a medicine show troupe, run by Dr. A. Locksley Hall (Alan Mowbray), that is heavily under the influence of its product and out of water, and they too become part of the caravan. As the trek continues, the Mormons also begins to run low on water, which is less of a problems than a meeting with the murderous Clegg family, led by the unctuous Uncle Shiloh (Charles Kemper), who claims that he and his five "boys" are simple cowhands. To avoid violence, Wiggs allows them to join the convoy but regrets it when the medicine troupe attempts to leave the wagon train and is stopped at gunpoint by the Cleggs. An enjoyable character-based excursion that draws humor from the uneasy coexistence of a wide range of social types, WAGON MASTER showcases the gruff and appealing Bond in a role that he would repeat, with little alteration (and great popular success), on television's WAGON TRAIN.
Keywords:
Movie Lovers' Ratings & Reviews:
Customer Rating:
Based on 6088 ratings.
Based on 6088 ratings.
Write an online review to share your thoughts with other customers.
Wagon Master
Movie Lover: Fred Culver from
Austin, TX US -- November, 3, 2009
Good Story,acting,sound,scenery,and pitures. I miss movies like this.Reminds me of stories my Uncle Glenn would tell of stories passed down to him. Fred from Austin
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 111,992
- UPC: 883929082179
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item