Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Claire TrevorDallas
- John WayneThe Ringo Kid
- Andy DevineBuck
- John CarradineHatfield
- Thomas MitchellDoc Josiah Boone
- Louise PlattLucy Mallory
- George BancroftMarshal Curly Wilcox
- Donald MeekSamuel Peacock
- Berton ChurchillEllsworth H. Gatewood
- Tim HoltLt. Blanchard
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Stagecoach holds our attention effortlessly and is paced with the elegance of a symphony. - 100
The New York Times
Here, in a sentence, is a movie of the grand old school, a genuine rib-thumper and a beautiful sight to see. - 100
TV Guide Magazine
The classic western, Stagecoach is one of John Ford's greatest frontier epics. - 100
The A.V. Club
Stagecoach gives fine shading to a simple story, making it look and feel like a forgotten American myth. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Stagecoach both revived and elevated the Western. - 100
Empire
What drew the crowds back in 1939 and what has kept them coming is not the film's simmering subtexts but the absolutely fantastic ambush sequence as the stage thunders across the salt flats of Monument Valley. With this, Ford transformed the western. - 100
Time Out
The contrast between the innocence of the wilderness and the ambiguous 'blessings of civilisation' are brilliantly stitched into a smoothly developed narrative, which climaxes with the famous Indian attack on the stagecoach. - 88
Slant Magazine
If this is the Old West of our dreams, it’s one that exists in an outsider’s limbo, away from society’s rules, alternating between the breathtaking breadth of the American landscape and the Germanically shadowy lighting of Ford’s claustrophobic interiors.
