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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…
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Western is considered the most American of all film genres. It is also the most genuine of all Hollywood products, with early California filmmakers often seeing themselves as spiritual heirs of intrepid pioneers who conquered the American West a generation or two earlier. Yet, in the first years of Hollywood, the genre was often looked down upon as 'pulpy' even by those critics who had abandoned their early snobbish…More
