| The Covered Wagon | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | James Cruze |
| Written by | Jack Cunningham (adaptation) |
| Based on | The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough |
| Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky |
| Starring | J. Warren Kerrigan Lois Wilson |
| Cinematography | Karl Brown |
| Edited by | Dorothy Arzner |
| Music by | Josiah Zuro Hugo Riesenfeld |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
| Budget | $782,000 or $336,000[1] |
| Box office | $4 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)[2] |
The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J. Warren Kerrigan starred as Will Banion and Lois Wilson as Molly Wingate. On their quest they experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack.[3]
The Covered Wagon is one of many films from 1923 that entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019.[4]
- ^ "Big Picture Costs and Road Show Profits". Variety. March 18, 1925. p. 27. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738.
- ^ "The Covered Wagon". IMDb.
- ^ "Public Domain Day 2019". Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Retrieved November 24, 2018.