Wagons East!
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| Wagons East! | |
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| Directed by | Peter Markle |
| Produced by | Gary M. Goodman Robert F. Newmyer Barry Rosen Jeffrey Silver |
| Written by | Matthew Carlson |
| Starring | John Candy Richard Lewis John C. McGinley Ellen Greene Robert Picardo Ed Lauter Rodney A. Grant |
| Music by | Michael Small |
| Cinematography | Frank Tidy |
| Editing by | Scott Conrad |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 26, 1994 |
| Running time | 107 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Wagons East! is a 1994 Western comedy film directed by Peter Markle and starring John Candy and Richard Lewis. The film was neither a box office nor critical success, and is best remembered today as the last film John Candy was working on before his death.
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[edit] Synopsis
In the 1860s Wild West, a pair of misfit settlers including an ex-doctor Phil Taylor (Richard Lewis), a prostitute Belle (Ellen Greene), and homosexual bookseller Julian (John C. McGinley) decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west so they hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow (John Candy) to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East. This leads to a comedy of errors when the drunken wagonmaster leads them into Sioux Indian territory and they are pursued by the cavalry. They also have to contend with hired gunslingers who have been sent by railroad magnates to stop the journey in fear of bad publicity of the west, and their discovery that Harlow had been part of the infamous Donner Party.
[edit] Trivia
- Candy died of a heart attack on location just after the filming of this movie wrapped, in Durango, Mexico. The makers of the film have stated that Candy had completed shooting all his scenes. However, this story is doubted by some.[1]
- This was the last film John Candy completed before his death. Canadian Bacon, released the following year, was completed before Wagons East!
[edit] Notes
- ^ Roger Ebert, review of Wagons East!, Chicago Sun-Times, August 26, 1994, at RogerEbert.com; last accessed October 27, 2006.
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