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Wagons East (sometimes styled as Wagons East!) is a 1994 American Western adventure comedy film directed by Peter Markle, written by Matthew Carlson, and starring John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene, Robert Picardo, Rodney A. Grant, and Ed Lauter. It tells the story of an alcoholic wagon master who leads a group of misfit ...
- $4.4 million
- Michael Small
- August 26, 1994
- Carolco Pictures
Wagons East: Directed by Peter Markle. With Joe Bays, Abraham Benrubi, Jill Boyd, John Candy. In the 1860s Wild West, a ragged bunch of misfit settlers decides they cannot stand living in their current situation and they hire a grizzled cowboy to take them on a journey back East to their hometowns.
- Peter Markle
- 2 min
Aug 26, 1994 · Directed by. Peter Markle. The loss of John Candy is made all the more poignant because "Wagons East!" is the last film he completed. It is possible he never appeared in a worse one. The producers claim he finished all his key scenes before his unexpected death on the location, but that's hard to believe, because his character is an undefined ...
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Chad Hamilton. Ricky Jones. Stuart Proud Eagle Grant. White Cloud. Marcie Smolin. Woman on Trail. Gailard Sartain. J.P. Moreland (uncredited) After the 1860s Wild West, a group of misfit settlers - including ex-doctor Phil Taylor, prostitute Belle, and homosexual bookseller Julian - decide they cannot live in their current situation in the west.
7/10. Solid comedy Western; John Candy's final movie. Wuchakk 21 January 2018. RELEASED IN 1994 and directed by Peter Markle, "Wagons East" details events when a dozen settlers in the remote Southwest town of Prosperity give up on the West and hire a drunken wagon master (John Candy) to lead them back East.
IMDbPro. All topics. Trivia. Wagons East. John Candy died during filming. His few remaining scenes were either not filmed, or were filmed using a stand-in, then re-written not to involve him. For example, his prolonged fistfight with the general, and during his second bar sequence footage was re-used from his earlier bar sequence.
