WesternAdventure

Stagecoach

- A powerful story of nine strange people.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

Release Date : 1939-03-03

Language :EnglishSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Walter Wanger Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Dallas

Original Name : Claire Trevor

Gender : Female

Character Name : The Ringo Kid

Original Name : John Wayne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marshal Curly Wilcox

Original Name : George Bancroft

Gender : Male

Character Name : Buck

Original Name : Andy Devine

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doc Josiah Boone

Original Name : Thomas Mitchell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hatfield

Original Name : John Carradine

Gender : Male

Character Name : Samuel Peacock

Original Name : Donald Meek

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ellsworth H. Gatewood

Original Name : Berton Churchill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lucy Mallory

Original Name : Louise Platt

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lt. Blanchard

Original Name : Tim Holt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Luke Plummer

Original Name : Tom Tyler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Indian Scout (uncredited)

Original Name : Chief John Big Tree

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cavalry Scout / Indian Attacking Stagecoach (uncredited)

Original Name : Yakima Canutt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Billy Pickett (uncredited)

Original Name : Francis Ford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sergeant (uncredited)

Original Name : William Hopper

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chris (uncredited)

Original Name : Chris-Pin Martin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pony Express Agent (uncredited)

Original Name : Paul McVey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bartender in Tonto (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Pennick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Telegraph Operator (uncredited)

Original Name : Harry Tenbrook

Gender : Male

Character Name : Indian Chief (uncredited)

Original Name : Whitehorse

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cavalryman (uncredited)

Original Name : Hank Worden

Gender : Male

Character Name : Girl in Saloon (uncredited)

Original Name : Dorothy Appleby

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Ted Billings

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Wiggie Blowne

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Danny Borzage

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lordsburg Saloon Owner (uncredited)

Original Name : Ed Brady

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Fritzi Brunette

Gender : Female

Character Name : Boone's Landlady (uncredited)

Original Name : Nora Cecil

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bit (uncredited)

Original Name : Steve Clemente

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rancher (uncredited)

Original Name : Bill Cody

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bartender (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Curtis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Pickett (uncredited)

Original Name : Marga Ann Deighton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Tex Driscoll

Gender : Male

Character Name : Small Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Johnny Eckert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Deputy Frank (uncredited)

Original Name : Franklyn Farnum

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Gatewood (uncredited)

Original Name : Brenda Fowler

Gender : Female

Character Name : Girl in Saloon (uncredited)

Original Name : Helen Gibson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ed the Editor (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Homans

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bartender (uncredited)

Original Name : Si Jenks

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Whitney (uncredited)

Original Name : Cornelius Keefe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nancy Whitney (uncredited)

Original Name : Florence Lake

Gender : Female

Character Name : Small Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Al Lee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lordsburg Sheriff (uncredited)

Original Name : Duke R. Lee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lordsburg Express Agent (uncredited)

Original Name : Theodore Lorch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tonto Express Agent Jim (uncredited)

Original Name : James Pier Mason

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tonto Sheriff (uncredited)

Original Name : Louis Mason

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ogler (uncredited)

Original Name : Merrill McCormick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : J.P. McGowan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Sickel (uncredited)

Original Name : Walter McGrail

Gender : Male

Character Name : Small Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Mohr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Billy Pickett Jr. (uncredited)

Original Name : Kent Odell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lordsburg Bar Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Artie Ortego

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hank Plummer (uncredited)

Original Name : Vester Pegg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Small Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Chris Phillips

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ike Plummer (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Rickson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rancher (uncredited)

Original Name : Buddy Roosevelt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Mickey Simpson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Chuck Stubbs

Gender : Male

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Leonard Trainor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Simmons (uncredited)

Original Name : Bryant Washburn

Gender : Male

Character Name : Yakima (uncredited)

Original Name : Elvira Ríos

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank Baker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bit Part (uncredited)

Original Name : Patricia Doyle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lordsburg Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Olin Francis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Small Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Don Hawks

Gender : Male

Character Name : Barfly (uncredited)

Original Name : George Huggins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Townswoman (uncredited)

Original Name : Dorothy Vernon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Townsman (uncredited)

Original Name : Blackjack Ward

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. Stagecoach is directed by John Ford and adapted by Dudley Nichols from a story by Ernest Haycox. It stars Claire Trevor, John Wayne, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, Donald Meek and Louise Platt. Director of photography is Bert Glennon and director of music Boris Morros. 6 people on board a stagecoach bound for Lordsburg, each one very different in character, each one with their own issues in life, and some carrying shame as well as dark secrets. The journey is fraught with danger as the Apache are tracking them thru the desert flats, can all the polar opposites come together to form a united front? It's now written in history that the 1930s was a bad decade for the Western movie. The decade began with expensive flops The Big Trail & Cimarron and from there the big studios pretty much condemned the genre to being nothing more than a B movie production line. Then in 1937 a story called Stage to Lordsburg was published in Collier's magazine, a story written by Ernest Haycox that itself was inspired by a short story called Boule de Suif written by Guy de Maupassant. John Ford liked the story very much and purchased the rights, trusting Dudley Nichols to rework a screenplay into a classic Western narrative. Meeting resistance from some of the head men at the studios, Ford had to fight hard to not only get the film made, but to also have John Wayne playing The Ringo Kid. Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea were wanted instead of Wayne, and Marlene Dietrich was suggested for the role of Dallas, the role eventually went to Claire Trevor. But Ford stuck to his guns, and rightly so, for now Stagecoach can be seen as a wonderful film that not only launched Wayne to stardom, but also as the film that reignited the Western genre and paved the way for some essential classics that followed. John Ford's first sound Western is rich with character dynamics at play, with the great director exploring what would become a trademark theme of his, that of moral qualities born out of people deemed less pure in society's eyes. True enough Stagecoach is still very traditional in an early Western movie sense, but the study of different characters under duress is magnificently moulded by director and cast alike. It was something that Orson Welles liked about the film, calling it perfect textbook film making, even claiming it to be a film he watched numerous times whilst crafting Citizen Kane. It's easy to believe Welles, we obviously remember the stunning Apache pursuit of the rocketing stagecoach, the stunt work, the breathless energy and the majestic location of Monument Valley, but thematically the film sizzles as well. That Ford is able to marry sharp action with real human drama - intimate drama played out on a massive panoramic landscape - is why Stagecoach continually entertains and influences with each passing year. From the moment Ford zooms up close on the face of John Wayne, a mega-star was born, but more importantly, from the opening credits to the last second of Stagecoach, the Western movie was reborn. A near masterpiece of the genre. 9/10