Wagon Train

1957, Series, 75 min, Western, English, United States, MoviePedia score 68

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.

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Directed by Virgil W. Vogel, Jerry Hopper, Joseph Pevney, Allen H. Miner, Herschel Daugherty, David Butler, Dick Moder, Richard Bartlett, Mark Stevens, Ted Post, William Witney, Sidney Lanfield, R.G. Springsteen, Christian Nyby, Bernard Girard, Jesse Hibbs, Tay Garnett, James Neilson, Bretaigne Windust, Sutton Roley, Frank Arrigo, David Lowell Rich, Earl Bellamy, John Brahm, Robert Florey, George Waggner, Abner Biberman, Mitchell Leisen, Justus Addiss, Don Weis, Arnold Laven, David Swift, Jack Arnold, Arthur Hiller, Aaron Spelling, John Ford, Richard Whorf, Richard Donner, John English, Charles F. Haas, Don Taylor, Sydney Pollack, James Sheldon, James H. Brown, Andrew V. McLaglen

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