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The Wagon Master Reviews

1929
1 hr 10 mins
NR

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This western, the first talkie of popular cowboy actor Ken Maynard, is filled with many sound effects. Maynard plays a guide who is hired to help a group of miners get to their new work site. Unfortunately, an outlaw uses his bullwhip to try and stop them. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed.

The first Maynard talkie makes great use of the new audio medium by emphasizing every possible sound effect from hand-clapping to villain Santschi's whip-snapping. With a vocal chorus behind him, Maynard plays both guitar and violin. Maynard plays a guide hired to take a wagon of miners to their future work site. Santschi is the whip-toting bad guy out to stop the miners at all costs. Exciting footage of the wagon train thundering over the desert was re-used several times in other films including MYSTERY MOUNTAIN (1934) and THE MIRACLE RIDER (1935).