Wagon Master Reviews

This may be the closest Ford ever got to making a musical.

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Ford considered it among his personal favorites, and a handful of Ford's biggest admirers consider it a neglected masterpiece. (I do too.)

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Wagon Master is a good outdoor action film, done in the best John Ford manner. That means careful character development and movement, spiced with high spots of action, good drama and leavening comedy moments

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It's as gentle and warm a film as [John Ford] ever made and it follows a classic Ford theme: the creation of a community in the west...

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...a simple, straightforward film telling a simple, straightforward story, artistic in its design and execution and poetic in its telling.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

one of Ford's masterworks, a sublime, crisp, unpretentious western that doesn't wear its mythos on its sleeve

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

It's one of the most likable of all the Westerns directed by John Ford.

Full Review | Original Score: A