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1. Wheels of Destiny (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Western
Bill, who is about to lead a wagon train to California, has a map to a valuable gold field and Rocky is after the map. When Rocky and his men attack, Ken Manning breaks it up and later ... See full summary »
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Dorothy Dix, Philo McCullough, Frank Rice
Votes: 24
Wagon driver, Bobby Dunn.
Alabama Hills.
2. The Covered Wagon (1923)
98 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale, Ernest Torrence
Votes: 778 | Gross: $7.63M
3. The Last Wagon (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Western
Wagon train survivors of an Apache attack entrust the sheriff's prisoner, scout Comanche Todd, with their lives despite his wanted-for-murder status.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Widmark, Felicia Farr, Susan Kohner, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 3,669
4. Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Family, Western
The adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery
Votes: 405
5. Wagon Train (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Western
Pecos businessman Matt Gardner is buying up freighters, or wagon trains of food supplies, at cheap prices through intimidation, and charging high prices by deliberately causing phony food ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Killy | Stars: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Emmett Lynn, Martha O'Driscoll
Votes: 275
6. Wagon Tracks (1919)
Not Rated | 70 min | Adventure, Mystery, Western
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Lloyd Bacon
Votes: 237
7. Wagon Master (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Votes: 5,525
8. The Dude Goes West (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Western
Eastern gunsmith Daniel Bone goes out west to ply his trade, encounters a girl searching for the murderer of her father.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Eddie Albert, Gale Storm, James Gleason, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 286
Wagon wheel mechanic, Roger Alan.
9. Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Western
Two sons of a general try to prove that he did not give an order that resulted in the Indian massacre of a wagon train and army fort.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Victor Mature, Coleen Gray, Glenn Langan, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 547
Wagon Master, Ralph Dunn
10. Another Man, Another Chance (1977)
Passed | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The story of gaining the West with dedication of the people that built it. All framed up in a photograph of a couple's legacy.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell
Votes: 637
Wagonmaster, Rance Howard.
11. Silver River (1948)
Passed | 110 min | Romance, Western
After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 1,540
Wagon Master, Paul E. Burns
12.
Rawhide (1959–1965)
Episode:
The Woman Trap
(1962)
Not Rated | 51 min | Western
The drovers come across a group of women who say they headed to Fort Worth to marry homesteaders. After a dance they go their separate ways until one is found dying. Favor, Rowdy, and Hey Soos try to help but find themselves hostages, too.
Director: George Templeton | Stars: Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, Sheb Wooley, Paul Brinegar
Votes: 106
Wagon Master, Alan Hale, jr.
13. Wanted Johnny Texas (1967)
89 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Johnny Texas is recruited by the U.S. Army to find a safe passage for a wagon train and impatient settlers to the West.
Director: Emimmo Salvi | Stars: Willi Colombini, Monika Brugger, Howard Ross, Dante Maggio
Votes: 73
Wagon train guard, Franco Gulà.
14. Rolling Caravans (1938)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music, Western
The strip is being opened to settlers and as everyone heads for the starting line, Thad and his outlaw gang are ready. Learning Rankin has a treasure map, Thad steals it. When Breezy ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart, Harry Woods, Lafe McKee
Votes: 17
Wagon Boss Jed, Jack Rockwell.
15. Seven Ways from Sundown (1960)
Passed | 87 min | Western
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy bounty-hunters on the way back to jail.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, Venetia Stevenson, John McIntire
Votes: 1,289
Chief Waggoner, Fred Graham.
Waggoners,
Dale Van Sickel.
Bob Herron.
Joe Yrigoyen.
16. Wells Fargo (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, History, Western
The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 641
Wagon train driver, Charles Herzinger.
17. Custer's Last Stand (I) (1936)
Passed | 328 min | War, Western
When some men are attacked by Indians, a survivor obtains an Indian medicine arrow. An Indian tells Blade he has found gold but will not tell him where until he has that arrow. So Blade ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rex Lease, Lona Andre, William Farnum, Ruth Mix
Votes: 250
Wagon master, William Desmond.
18. The Big Trail (1930)
Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.
Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall
Votes: 4,339
19. The Oregon Trail (1936)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Western
U.S. Army Captain John Delmont takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father. Later he leads a wagon train to California and goes after the bad guys involved in his father's disappearance.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Joseph W. Girard, Yakima Canutt
20. Wagon Wheels (1934)
Passed | 56 min | Western
In 1844 scout Clint Belmet and his two sidekicks guide a wagon train to the newly opened Oregon territory despite hardships and Indian attack.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Monte Blue
Votes: 345
21. Fighting Caravans (1931)
Passed | 92 min | Western
A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.
Directors: Otto Brower, David Burton | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall
Votes: 722
22. Virginia City (1940)
Passed | 121 min | Western
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City, Nevada, where he finds out that the former commander of his prison, Vance Irby, is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 2,961
23. Brigham Young (1940)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,140
24. Kit Carson (1940)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Western
Indian fighter, trapper and frontier scout Kit Carson leads a wagon train of settlers from Fort Bridger, along the Oregon Trail through Shoshone territory, to California which plans to secede from Mexico.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jon Hall, Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Harold Huber
Votes: 623
25. Three Faces West (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Austrian refugees Dr Braun and his daughter Leni join the town's plan to relocate to Oregon. The town leader falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped them escape from the Third Reich.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters
Votes: 966
26. Bad Bascomb (1946)
Approved | 112 min | Western
An outlaw, Bascomb, and his sidekick Yancey join a Mormon wagon train to hide out after a failed bank robbery. Bascomb undergoes a reformation as a result of his interactions with a young girl who becomes attached to him.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 511
27. Red River (1948)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western
Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
Votes: 34,367
28. The Outriders (1950)
Not Rated | 93 min | Western
In 1865, three escaped Confederate POWs are coerced into joining an offshoot of Quantrill's raiders who are planning to rob a Union gold shipment concealed in a civilian wagon train going from Santa Fe to St. Louis.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Claude Jarman Jr.
Votes: 765
29. Passage West (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Western
In 1864, six Salt Lake prison escapees join a wagon train headed for California but tensions between inmates and settlers complicate the perilous voyage.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan, Frank Faylen
Votes: 229
30. Bend of the River (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a town boss confiscates homesteaders' supplies after gold is discovered nearby, a tough cowboy risks his life to try and get it to them.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, Julie Adams
Votes: 9,896
31. Jubilee Trail (1954)
Approved | 103 min | Western
A wild west trader and his New York City wife head out for California by wagon train. The trader is killed en route, and his wife finds herself pregnant. She continues on, hoping to find a man and a home.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell
Votes: 252 | Gross: $1.30M
32. Arrow in the Dust (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Western
A cavalry deserter risks his life to warn and protect a wagon train from an impending Indian attack.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Keith Larsen, Tom Tully
Votes: 509
33. The Last Drop of Water (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Western
A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles West, Joseph Graybill, Francis J. Grandon
Votes: 289
34. The Pie-Covered Wagon (1932)
10 min | Comedy, Western, Short
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Shirley Temple, Georgie Smith, Eugene Butler, Philip Hurlic
Votes: 290
35. The Wild Dakotas (1956)
Passed | 73 min | Western
When Indian land is threatened by a take-over by white settlers, a frontiersman tries to prevent an Indian uprising.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Bill Williams, Coleen Gray, Jim Davis, John Litel
Votes: 70
36. Rustlers of Red Dog (1935)
Approved | 231 min | Drama, Western
Three friends make a journey across the West and come up against rustlers, Indian attacks and outlaw gangs.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Joyce Compton, Raymond Hatton, Walter Miller
Votes: 51
37. The Indian Fighter (1955)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country unwittingly gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas
Votes: 2,882
38. Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Passed | 87 min | Western
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson, Dani Crayne
Votes: 813
39. Westward the Women (1951)
Passed | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson, John McIntire
Votes: 3,800
40. The Tall Stranger (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Western
Back from the Civil War, an ex-Yankee officer aids a wagon train of former Confederates settle in a prosperous valley marred by cattle-rustling and land-grabbing feuds.
Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Barry Kelley, Michael Pate
Votes: 924
41. The Oregon Trail (1959)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
In 1846, a newspaperman joins an Oregon Trail wagon train to verify rumors about the U.S. government sending troops disguised as settlers there in order to claim Oregon.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Fred MacMurray, William Bishop, Nina Shipman, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 490
42. Thunder in the Sun (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
1850 adventure story of the Basque immigrants on their way to California, their struggle with the Indians, and the development of a complicated love triangle.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Susan Hayward, Jeff Chandler, Jacques Bergerac, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 484
43. How the West Was Won (1962)
G | 164 min | Adventure, War, Western
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda
Votes: 23,318 | Gross: $46.50M
44. Wagons East (1994)
PG-13 | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
In the 1860s Wild West, a ragged bunch of misfit settlers decides they cannot stand living in their current situation and they hire a grizzled cowboy to take them on a journey back East to their hometowns.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: John Candy, Joe Bays, Abraham Benrubi, Jill Boyd
Votes: 6,175 | Gross: $4.36M
45. The Way West (1967)
Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright
Votes: 3,568
46. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
GP | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Directors: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 2,685 | Gross: $3.03M
47.
Cheyenne (1955–1963)
Episode:
White Warrior
(1958)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
While wagon master of a train, Cheyenne trades for a Comanche prisoner of the Apaches because he notices the boy is white. Cheyenne hopes to convince him to stay with them rather than return to the Comanche but prejudice may stop him.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Clint Walker, Randy Stuart, Peter Whitney, Michael Landon
Votes: 95
48.
Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode:
Baron of Broken Lance
(1959)
60 min | Western
Trouble brews when Bronco is leading a wagon train through the wilderness. It seems that an old army buddy of his is on the train, and he's brought along the runaway daughter of a powerful cattle rancher, who doesn't like it one bit.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Ty Hardin, William Reynolds, Shirley Knight, Myron Healey
Votes: 30
49.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Zebedee Titus Story
(1964)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
Barnaby and Charlie talk Chris Hale into hiring legendary mountain man Zebedee Titus as a scout. The nearly 80-year-old Zeb's failing eyesight leads to problems, including Coop's capture by a Comanche Zeb couldn't see.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Robert Fuller, John McIntire, Frank McGrath, Terry Wilson
Votes: 55
50.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Thar She Blows
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Baylor no longer has enough animals to get across the Kansas prairie. He devises a unique way to propel his wagon but it invites ridicule. With only Lou believing in him, Baylor proposes a race to prove he is right.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: George Gobel, Evans Evans, Parley Baer, Don Haggerty
Votes: 32
51.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Other Side of the Mountain
(1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Wagonmaster Lassen faces an unruly mob when he tries a new route to California in the 1840s and is overheard saying he may be lost.
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Michael Witney, Kimberly Allen, John Carter, Hal Baylor
Votes: 25
52. Silverado (1985)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A misfit bunch of friends comes together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Rosanna Arquette
Votes: 49,430 | Gross: $33.20M
53. Meek's Cutoff (2010)
PG | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Will Patton
Votes: 15,220 | Gross: $0.98M
54. The Donner Party (2009)
R | 95 min | Drama
After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of trapped settlers join together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
Director: Terrence Martin | Stars: Crispin Glover, Clayne Crawford, Michele Santopietro, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,193
55. Pioneer Days (1930)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey and Minnie are on a wagon train; they camp for the night, unaware that Indians have spotted them and are doing a war dance. The attack comes, and Minnie is captured.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Wilbur Mack, George Magrill, Purv Pullen, Theodore Santoro
Votes: 450
56. Wagon Heels (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Western, Animation, Family
Porky leads a wagon train into "Injun Joe Territory," and finally comes up against the fearsome Superchief. But Sloppy Moe, a survivor of a previous Injun Joe attack, knows something about him he won't tell... until the very end.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Robert Clampett
Votes: 364
57. All Faces West (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Romance, Western
Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
Director: Raymond K. Johnson | Stars: Ben Lyon, Marie Prevost, Gladys Johnston, Anders Randolf
Votes: 45
58. Cherokee Uprising (1950)
Approved | 57 min | Western
White men are getting some Indians to attack arriving wagon trains. In exchange for the wagon train valuables, they give the Indians whiskey which they distill themselves. Two Marshals ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Lois Hall, Sam Flint
Votes: 28
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