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.
Theatrical release poster
lobby poster
1923 trade magazine ad for The Covered Wagon
James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.
Cruze in 1923
Cruze in The Web of Life (1917)
Cruze in The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)
newspaper advertisement for Rivalry (1914)