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Wagon Master (1950)
Director: John Ford
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Another Fordian epic positing the American community as the sum of its bands of outsiders, with a Mormon wagon train bound for the westward Promised Land in alliance with a pair of rootless horse-traders, a trio of theatricals, and a tribe of nomadic Navajos, tested by the landscape and the threat of their perverse familial mirror image, the villainous Uncle Shiloh Clegg and his boys. A moral fable, but with a refreshing lack of rhetoric to its poetry. Athlete/actor Jim Thorpe, here playing the Navajo leader, was himself portrayed by Burt Lancaster the following year in the biopic Jim Thorpe - All-American.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: John Ford
Producer: John Ford, Merian C Cooper
Cast: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr, Ward Bond, Alan Mowbray, Jane Darwell, Charles Kemper, Russell Simpson, James Arness full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 86 mins
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