---
title: 'The Covered Wagon (1923)'
type: 'film'
director: 'James Cruze'
released: '1923-03-16'
runtime_minutes: 97
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Western'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-covered-wagon-1923'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013951/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Covered Wagon (1923)

1923 · 97 min · Drama, Western, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

The Covered Wagon is a 1923 American silent epic 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [James Cruze](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-cruze)
- **Screenplay:** [Jack Cunningham](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-cunningham)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Josiah Zuro](https://cinepixo.com/people/josiah-zuro)
- **Producer:** [Jesse Louis Lasky](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky)
- **Director of Photography:** [Karl Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-brown)
- **Editor:** [Dorothy Arzner](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-arzner)

## Cast

- [Ethel Wales](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethel-wales)
- [Charles Stanton Ogle](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-stanton-ogle)
- [Lois Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lois-wilson)
- [Guy Oliver](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-oliver)
- [Alan Hale](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-hale)
- [Ernest Torrence](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-torrence)
- [Tully Marshall](https://cinepixo.com/people/tully-marshall)
- [Tim McCoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/tim-mccoy)
- [Frank Albertson](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-albertson)
- [J. Warren Kerrigan](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-warren-kerrigan)
- [James Cruze](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-cruze)

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