Wagon Wheels
Feature film · 56 min · dir. Charles Barton
They Fought Their Way And Feared No Danger!
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
Synopsis
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the…
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Charles Barton
- Writer
- Zane Grey
- Composer
- John Leipold
- Cinematography
- William C. Mellor
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1934-09-15
- Running time
- 56 minutes
Cast & crew
Charles Barton Director
Randolph Scott
Gail Patrick
Monte Blue
Raymond Hatton
Billy Lee
Jan Duggan
Howard Wilson
Leila Bennett
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Rather Weak Re-Make · bobsluckycat · 2011-05-30
This 1934 re-make of the 1931 film "Fighting Caravans" which starred Gary Cooper, is a much shorter and much less involved version than the original and with a load of stock footage edited in to boot. It's O.K. Randolph Scott is very good in an early role, but with little to do. Olin Howlin and Raymond Hatton are almost unrecognizable in their frontiersman make-up and only mildly amusing, for them. This is a very old, very dark and murky TV print. Watch it to see a relic. Curiosity value only.
