The Saga of Windwagon Smith
1961 · 13 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 340 VOTES · DIR. Charles August Nichols
Overview
Sea Captain Windwagon Smith hits Westport, Kansas, the starting point of the old Oregon and Santa Fe Trails, and is quickly the laughing stock of the town; instead of traveling in the usual oxen-drawn covered wagon, he is at the helm and wheel of a Contestoga-type wagon with a full set of sails. He plans to go to Oregon by taking advantage of the prairie winds. First, he wins over the town mayor, falls in love with the mayor's beautiful daughter, Molly Crum, and then secures financial backing from the townspeople. He sets sail across the plains, with Molly Crum as a covered-wagon stowaway, and a Kansas twister looming on the horizon. And, then, the wind hits the sails. And the fan, too, if he had had one.
Dialogue Timeline — 217 lines
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00:00:47 # In Kansas land
00:01:17 # Get along, you swabs, get along
00:01:55 Bellowed a voice from the dust
00:02:22 A mast was rigged with a tattered sail
00:02:51 Now I've cruised to the West and I intend
00:03:16 My energy's furled in folds.
00:03:49 and had the lines of a full-rig ship.
00:04:29 but will the blamed thing haul freight?
00:04:59 that leads down to old Santa Fe.
00:05:25 Land's sake.
00:05:50 Mates
00:06:33 Windwagon met Molly each night after work
00:07:05 Then came the day the windwagon was finished.
00:07:31 ... she'd move with the touch of a hand.
00:08:13 Miss Molly led them up to the hold.
00:08:44 The sail bellied out in the Kansas breeze
00:09:14 # Yippee ai aye And a yo ho ho
00:09:42 Brace for rough seas.
00:10:16 Lo and behold, the wheel did stuck fast.
00:10:44 they'd hit running and tumbling about.
00:11:17 Well, shiver me timbers and furl me jib.
00:11:51 I can steer her again
00:12:30 # She'd be a-sailin' in the painted sky
00:13:11 # In the sky #