'''''Wagons East''''' is a 1994 Western comedy film directed by Peter Markle and starring John Candy and Richard Lewis. The film was a box office disaster and only gained notoriety for being the last film of John Candy who died during filming.

Synopsis

In the 1860s Wild West, a pair of misfit settlers including an ex-doctor Phil Taylor (Richard Lewis), a prostitute Belle (Ellen Greene), and homosexual bookseller Julian (John C. McGinley) 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 (John Candy) to take on a journey back to their hometowns in the East. This leads to a comedy of errors when the drunken wagonmaster leads them into Sioux Indian 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

Main Cast

*John Candy
*Richard Lewis
*John C. McGinley
*Ellen Greene
*Robert Picardo
*Ed Lauter
*Rodney A. Grant

Trivia

*This was the last film John Candy was working on before his death. However it is not the last film he appeared in. Canadian Bacon released the following year which Candy had already completed, but due to his death the release was delayed for a year.

*John Candy died of a heart attack on location while filming this movie in Durango, Mexico only a few days before the shooting was to be completed. The makers of the film later claimed John had completed shooting all his scenes already before his death.http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940826/REVIEWS/408260303/1023. But some sources state that he was replaced by a stand-in body double in the remaining scenes that needed to be done.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111653/trivia

External Links

* Film Review by Roger Ebert