Wagons East!

Wagons East! (1994) is a comedy Western you can watch online on iFILM. Peter Markle directs John Candy as a washed-up, hard-drinking wagon master.

Out in the 1860s frontier, a band of misfits has had enough of the Wild West. A disgraced doctor, a weary prostitute, a mild-mannered bookseller and assorted dreamers pool their money to head the wrong way — back east to the towns they came from. Their guide is the perpetually soused James Harlow. Standing in their path: a railroad baron who'd rather they never made it home, with hired guns to see to it.

The whole joke flips the genre — these pioneers want to surrender the frontier, not tame it. It also carries a sad footnote: Harlow was John Candy's final role, finished as he died during production. Broad, lightweight and unmistakably mid-'90s, it's one for Candy fans and anyone who likes their adventures cheerfully dumb. Stream Wagons East! (1994) online on iFILM.