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Auction History Result

1e156 COVERED WAGON program '23 James Cruze, pioneers & wagon train on Oregon Trail!

Date Sold 3/31/2011
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An Original Vintage Movie Program Book (measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More)

The Covered Wagon, the classic 1923 James Cruze silent winning-the-West pioneer wagon train romantic adventure cowboy western ("The cowards never started - The weak died on the way"; "Out where thrills began"; "A wonder picture that Will thrill you"; "From the novel by Emerson Hough"; "With hearts fortified by love they braved the perils of the plains"; one of the most major westerns of the 1920s, it was made at a time when westerns were thought to be losing their popularity, but this movie single-handedly revived the genre; set in 1848, about two wagon trains that travel from Kansas City to California and Oregon via the Oregon Trail, and the great difficulties they encounter along the way) starring Lois Wilson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Alan Hale Sr., Charles Ogle, Ethel Wales, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Guy Oliver, John Fox, Tim McCoy (who is billed as an "Indian liaison"), and Jack Padjan. Note that Paramount gave this movie a really major release, and virtually every poster on the movie has completely different artwork from all the other posters! Note that the advertising for this movie states that "3,000 actors spend 3 months on a location 80 miles from the railroad. 1,000 Indians were used and the livestock included 600 oxen, 1,000 horses, and 500 mules"!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have pictured the front cover, the back cover, and an interior 2-page spread from this program. Also note that there is a really cool ad at the back of this program for Cecil B. Demille's production of "The Ten Commandments"!

Condition: very good. There is an ink pad stamp and area of writing at upper right on the front cover of the program. The program is otherwise in pretty nice condition.
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