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James Cruze, Paramount, 1923, from Emerson Hough’s novel. Two wagon trains join for the Oregon Trail; J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson supply the courtship; the river and the buffalo are the picture. Shot in Nevada and Utah with hired wagons and a herd the publicity department counted in the hundreds. The AFI notes it as the Western that taught the studios a landscape could outgross a drawing room. Native raiders are written as 1923 wrote them. Karl Brown photographed the crossings. It made the epic wagon picture a repeatable product.
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The Western that taught the studios a landscape could outgross a drawing room. Hired wagons, a herd counted by the publicity office, a river crossing photographed as if it might not work. The courtship is filler. The buffalo are the picture.
Hired wagons, a herd counted by the publicity office, and a river crossing photographed as if it might fail. The courtship is filler. Cruze taught the studios a landscape could outgross a drawing room. Watch the buffalo. That is the picture.
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