Trivia for
Wagons East (1994) More at IMDbPro »

• Star John Candy died while making this film. His few remaining scenes were either not filmed or were filmed using a stand-in and were re-written not to involve him.
  
  
• The character of 'John Slade' is a reference to the character of 'Cactus Jack Slade' played by Kirk Douglas in The Villain (1979)
  
  
• John Candy did not want to make the film, but was contractually obligated to do so.
  
  
• At the end of this movie, it says "In Loving Memory of John Candy"
  
  
• There are 2 sequences in the film that feature John Candy's character in a bar. But as Candy passed away before production was completed, the second bar sequence towards the end of the film was done by re-using a portion of Candy's footage from the earlier bar sequence that shows him pouring some alcohol out of a bottle and putting the bottle down.
  
  

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