The War Wagon is a 1967 American Western heist film directed by Burt Kennedy and starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas.

Jackson plans to steal an upcoming $500,000[a] shipment of gold dust from Pierce's "war wagon", an armored stagecoach surrounded by mounted guards.

Wes Fletcher, an elderly wagon driver employed by Pierce to transport dry goods, becomes Jackson's informant.

The fourth team member is Levi Walking Bear, a Kiowa translator, whom Jackson and Lomax rescue from a gang of Mexican bandits.

Jackson then sends Lomax to pick up the final member, Billy Hyatt, a teenage drunkard and explosives expert.

When the team first meets to discuss their plan, Fletcher brings his teenage "wife" Kate along, and flies into a jealous rage when Hyatt gives her some coffee.

Lomax knocks him unconscious and hands him over to the Sheriff for the night, then accepts Pierce's offer, but asks for time to do the job.

Jackson keeps Pierce distracted by pretending to collect some of his old things, while Lomax and Hyatt crack a safe and take the explosives.

The wagon crashes into a gulch, and Jackson's team hides the gold dust in some barrels of flour on Fletcher's cart.

[3] In September 1962, he announced he would adapt Badman into a script at Producers Studio for his own Lucifer Productions (they were also going to make Guns of Rio Conchos, The Day Before Tomorrow, and Ship on Highway 7),[4] but the project eventually went to Universal.

[6] In June 1966, John Wayne announced he had signed a two-picture deal with Universal, the movies being The War Wagon and The Green Berets.