Watch The Covered Wagon (2012) Free Online

Release Date: 2012

Cast: Warner Oland, J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson

Categories: Movies, Epic Western, Short Film, Western, Silent Film, Indie

The Covered Wagon (1923) is an American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel 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. This movie was a major production for its time, with an estimate budget of $782,000 which made it a very expensive film in 1923. It required a large cast and film crew and many extras. It was filmed in various locations, including several places in Nevada and Utah. The... MORE

The Covered Wagon (1923) is an American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a novel 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. This movie was a major production for its time, with an estimate budget of $782,000 which made it a very expensive film in 1923. It required a large cast and film crew and many extras. It was filmed in various locations, including several places in Nevada and Utah. The dramatic buffalo hunt and buffalo stampede scenes were filmed on Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah. The Covered Wagon is considered by many to be the first great Western epic, and established some of the cliches which later became so well known, such as the circling of the wagons in preparation for an "Indian Attack". The film premiered in New York City on 16 March 1923 and ran 98 minutes. All or part of this film had a music track recorded in the short-lived DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, but was only shown this way at the premiere at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. Paramount LESS