Blu-ray Review – The Covered Wagon

1923's "The Covered Wagon" is a silent production that's largely credited as having a role in the birth of the big screen epic. Director James Cruze doesn't want a simple tale of Oregon Trail travel, going as big as possible to accurately detail the arduous cross-country trek, masterminding spectacle as the screenplay (an adaptation of a novel by Emerson Hough) secures simplistic but effects swings of melodrama, creating a love triangle to hold attention between wild displays of barely controlled chaos.  Read the rest at Blu-ray.com