Wagons East! is a 1994 Western comedy film directed by Peter Markle and starring John Candy and Richard Lewis. 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, so they hire a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow to take them on a journey back to their hometowns in the East. This leads to comedic exploits when the drunken wagon master leads them into Sioux territory and they are pursued by the cavalry. They also have... to contend with hired gunslingers who have been sent by railroad magnates to stop the journey in fear of bad publicity of the west, and their discovery that Harlow had been part of the infamous Donner Party. On March 4, 1994, Candy died of a heart attack in his sleep on location in the Mexican state of Durango after the day's shooting for this film had finished. The film makers claim he had completed all his scenes for the film at the time of his death but this claim is disputed by critics and audiences.
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| Release date: | August 26, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Peter Markle |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gary M. Goodman, Jeffrey Silver, Barry Rosen, Robert Newmyer |
| Music by: | Michael Small |
| Screenplay by: | Jerry Abrahamson, Matthew Carlson |
| Genre: | Western, Comedy, Action |