The Oregon Trail is a 1959 American CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color Western film directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and starring Fred MacMurray, William Bishop and Nina Shipman.

On the trail, Harris befriends the eccentric Zachariah Garrison, who is bringing pots with apple tree saplings to plant in Oregon.

Harris clashes with George Wayne, the leader of the wagon train, and secretly in command of Polk's agents; they become involved in a love triangle with a young pioneer woman named Prudence Cooper.

Not knowing this and still fearing arrest, Harris pays a mountain man and fur trapper named Gabe Hastings to take him to hide out in a nearby Arapaho village.

He made a bet with Spyros Skouras that he could make a big outdoor Western without ever leaving the Fox lot and like an idiot I agreed to direct it.