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The Covered Wagon (1923)

The Covered Wagon poster
Directed by
James Cruze
Genre
drama film, silent film, Western film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A group of pioneers travels across the old West from Kansas to Oregon. They face desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack along the way.

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What happens

The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent epic Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J. Warren Kerrigan starred as Will Banion and Lois Wilson as Molly Wingate. On their quest they experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. The Covered Wagon is one of many films from 1923 that entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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