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Wagon Wheels

193456 minUnited States
ComedyAdventureWestern
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Original language
English
This copy runs
59:06
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

Three scouts guide a wagon train toward Oregon, where a widow hopes to build a new life with her young son. A fur trader fears that incoming settlers will destroy his livelihood and works to turn the caravan back. The guides must keep the travellers together through a journey shaped by concealed opposition and divided loyalties.

Cast

DirectorsCharles Barton

Inspirations

The film returns to Zane Grey's 1929 novel Fighting Caravans, previously filmed in 1931. It combines a new cast led by Randolph Scott with footage from that earlier production. Its depiction of Indigenous people and settlement follows the conventions and prejudices of contemporary frontier melodrama.

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