Watch Fighting Caravans (1931) Free Online

Release Date: 1931

Cast: Eugene Pallette, Ernest Torrence, Lili Damita, Gary Cooper, Tully Marshall, Fred Kohler

Categories: Movies, Western, Adventure, Action, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, B-Western, Romantic drama, Romance Film

Fighting Caravans is a lavish 1931 western film starring Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. The movie was directed by Otto Brower and David Burton. Although the film is billed as being based on the novel of the same name by Zane Grey, the stories have little in common. The film was actually written by Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore, Jr. and Keene Thompson. The movie was remade just three years later as Wagon Wheels, a low-budget production employing extensive stock footage from Fighting Caravans and featuring Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick in the leads. Every character's name was changed... MORE

Fighting Caravans is a lavish 1931 western film starring Gary Cooper and Lili Damita. The movie was directed by Otto Brower and David Burton. Although the film is billed as being based on the novel of the same name by Zane Grey, the stories have little in common. The film was actually written by Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward E. Paramore, Jr. and Keene Thompson. The movie was remade just three years later as Wagon Wheels, a low-budget production employing extensive stock footage from Fighting Caravans and featuring Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick in the leads. Every character's name was changed in the remake except that of Clint Belmet, played by Cooper and Scott. Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California. A short time later, Felice finds out that Bill and Jim had lied to her; she did not need a man in order to join LESS