The Covered Wagon

The Covered Wagon
The Covered Wagon
	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	Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 16, 1923;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles
Budget	$782,000 or $336,000
Box office	$4 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)

The Covered Wagon

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.

[var-1] "Big Picture Costs and Road Show Profits". Variety. March 18, 1925. p. 27. Retrieved March 20, 2022.

[variety1990-2] Cohn, Lawrence (October 15, 1990). "All Time Film Rental Champs". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738.

[IMDb-3] "The Covered Wagon". IMDb.

[4] "Public Domain Day 2019". Center for the Study of the Public Domain. Retrieved November 24, 2018.

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