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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1950 DVD Release: 09/15/2009 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Subtitles: French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 26 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Western, Traditional Western

Wagon Master, splendidly directed by John Ford, is a superlative western. The film is the outwardly simple tale of a Mormon wagon train headed for Utah. Along the way, the group, led by Elder Wiggs (Ward Bond) hook up with two horse traders Travis Blue (Ben Johnson) and Sandy Owens (Harry Carey Jr), the members of a traveling medicine show and a tribe of Navajo Indians. The group is threatened by a gang, known as the Clegg family, who have robbed an express office and murdered the clerk. This wonderful film emphasizes the virtues of solidarity, sacrifice and tolerance, and shows John Ford at his most masterful, in total control of the production from the casting to the bit players to the grandeur and scope of the visual compositions. The film, with its breathtaking scenery, brilliant performances by a cast of character actors, and an engaging sense of humor, is a superlative example of the American western. Wagonmaster inspired the television series Wagon Train and was also shown in a computer-colorized version ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

Ben Johnson - Travis Blue
Harry Carey, Jr. - Sandy Owens
Ward Bond - Elder Wiggs
Joanne Dru - Denver
Charles Kemper - Uncle Shiloh Clegg
Alan Mowbray - Dr. A. Locksley Hall