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Wagon Master
Wagon Master
Actors: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Charles Kemper
Director: John Ford
Genres: Action & Adventure, Westerns, Drama
NR     2009     1hr 26min

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/15/2009 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr

     
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Actors: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Charles Kemper
Director: John Ford
Creators: Bert Glennon, John Ford, Lowell J. Farrell, Merian C. Cooper, Frank S. Nugent, Patrick Ford
Genres: Action & Adventure, Westerns, Drama
Sub-Genres: Action & Adventure, Westerns, Love & Romance
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: DVD - Black and White,Full Screen - Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 09/15/2009
Original Release Date: 01/01/1950
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1950
Release Year: 2009
Run Time: 1hr 26min
Screens: Black and White,Full Screen
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 6
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Movie Reviews

Wagons West are Rolling
L. Peake | London UK | 02/03/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wagonmaster is quietly poetic and optimistic. I found it quite unlike other Ford westerns I have seen, possibly because it hasn't got Dook or Hank in the way, so the ensemble cast comes into its own. Beautiful b/w cinematography with some breathtaking shots of the wagon train (shadows and dust) desperately looking for the next watering hole, but that is expected from John Ford. The Chuckawalla Swing dance is wonderfully filmed as well. Good use of the Sons of the Pioneers music in this movie, it is much more fitting than in Rio Grande. Ben Johnson is great in this movie, the role really suits him. Ward Bond and Harry Carey Jnr are very good and the Cleggs are as creepy as you could want. It is difficult to find on video, I had to find a second hand vhs version, but it is more than worth it. With My Darling Clementine, my favourite Ford western."
A Great John Ford Film Finally On DVD
Mike | Tulsa, OK | 07/04/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wagon Master is a wonderful film by John Ford. I've been waiting for it to come out on DVD for years. It probably hasn't been available on DVD until now because it didn't star John Wayne. Ben Johnson is the lead. Johnson appeared in many Ford films, but it was rare for him to be the star. Ward Bond, another regular for Ford films, is a Mormon elder who is taking a group of families west across Utah. James Arness is listed as one of the leads in the film. His screen time is limited, but it is a memorable performance. If you mainly know Arness from his role as Marshal Dillon in Gunsmoke, you will be very surprised with his character in Wagon Train. Wagon Train is an excellent western and shows why Ben Johnson was a terrific actor and a real cowboy."
Tribute to Ben Johnson
mr david cairns | kennoway, fife Great Britain | 05/23/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)

"A simple little story of a group of Mormons,led by Ward Bond,enlisting the help of two horse traders,Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jnr,to get them to their Promised Land.
Along the way they bump into,a love interest,Joanne Dru,and as evil a bunch of Bad Guys, The Cleggs,including a young James Arness and one of the best western character actors ever, Hank Worden;; as your ever likely to see.
Directed by the genius that was John Ford,music by Stan Jones and the Sons of the Pioneers,set in the fabulous Arizona,Monument Valley landscape and scenery,and what have you got?
;;;;;;;;A CLASSIC WESTERN;;;;;;;;
Why is this classic not been given the;;Special Edition;;treatment on DVD?
Ben Johnson,s only lead role,Harry Carey has just turned 86 years of age,Ward Bond,Hank Worden and a gallery of great western character actors and actresses.Need i say more?
Davy,Westernnut from Scotland."
Underrated
joe storey | wichita falls | 08/26/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Perhaps because it has no big-name stars, this film is sadly underrated. But it is said to have been Ford's personal favorite among all his many films, and I don't think it's hard to see why. Even though it's supposedly about Mormons heading west, really it's a distillation of Ford's favorite themes: the archetypal confrontation of good and evil and the "rediscovery of Eden" in the American West (or Ireland...). The whole thing has the authentic simplicity of folk poetry, if you will, with wonderful songs by the Sons of the Pioneers and Ford's trademark great landscape shots. Silence is used very effectively when the camera registers groups of expectant faces before a confrontation (and Ford of course learned his trade during the silent era). It's funny, it creates effective dramatic friction between the various little bands of people roving around the desert (Mormons, horse dealers, "entertainers," outlaws, Indians), and Ben Johnson is just wonderfully understated as the wagonmaster. Who needs big stars with a performance like this? (Aside: Johnson was a rodeo star whom Ford recruited for films; he didn't make many films after this, but be sure to see him twenty years later turning in an equally fine and low-key performance in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.) It's not an epic film like The Searchers, but I would place it among Ford's five best (with My Darling Clementine, Quiet Man, Searchers, and Liberty Valance).
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