Wagons Westward [SEP] director
Wagons Westward
Wagons Westward is a 1940 American Western film directed by Lew Landers, written by Joseph Moncure March and Harrison Jacobs, and starring Chester Morris, Anita Louise, Buck Jones, Ona Munson, George "Gabby" Hayes and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. It was released on June 19, 1940, by Republic Pictures.
Plot.
Twin brothers David and Tom Cook go their separate ways, David as a lawman, Tom as an outlaw. The latter is in league with a corrupt sheriff,
the rest of his career. His first Disney film credit was "Westward Ho, the Wagons!" (1956). About 1960, he began a fruitful collaboration on feature films with Disney director Robert Stevenson. Their first film was "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961). Warburton won an Academy Award and the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for the "spectacularly successful" "Mary Poppins" (1964), which also earned Stevenson an Oscar nomination as best director. Critic Drew Casper particularly notes Warburton's