Wagon Master - DVD [Standard]

The rivers are wide and rapid. The desert is vast and unforgiving. And when the trail turns craggy, men use pickaxes to dig grooves for the wagon wheels. Mother Nature can be overcome, but human nature remains deadly and unpredictable: Outlaws are using the Mormon wagon train as a hideout from a pursuing posse. John Ford's Wagon Master is one of the legendary filmmaker's personal favorites, a visually stirring celebration of Western wi

Families are torn apart and age-old feuds reignited when the sheriff's son takes part in a stagecoach robbery. Possessed by a gambling addiction and his love for the daughter of Mark Collins, the biggest crook in town, Clay Hartley breaks his father's heart when captured after the heist. Collins, haunted by the thought that Clay might name him as the mastermind behind the theft, is determined to see the boy dead, either at the hangman's

Silent cowboy star William S. Hart excels as 1850's trail guide Buckskin Hamilton, who learns that his brother has been accidentally killed by a gal in a wagon train heading west. Landing a job with the wagon train, Buckskin starts to believe that the woman's brother and his pal were behind the shooting. Jane Novak, Robert McKim, and future director Lloyd Bacon also star. 69 min. Standard; Soundtrack Dolby Digital stereo music score. Silent with music score.