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*Stagecoach* is a 1939 American black-and-white film directed by John Ford and produced by Walter Wanger. The cast includes John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, and Thomas Mitchell. Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht, and Ernest Haycox served as screenwriters, while Bert Glennon was the director of photography. The film was distributed by United Artists and features music by Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, Louis Gruenberg, and John Leipold. It has a runtime of 96 or 97 minutes and was filmed in Arizona and Utah.
The narrative is set in New Mexico and falls under the genres of Western, drama, and action. The film received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was named to the National Board of Review's Top Ten Films. It also received nominations for Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Picture. Critics have rated the film highly, with an IMDb score of 7.8 and a Metascore of 93. The tagline describes it as "A powerful story of nine strange people."
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Film · TMDB
7.6A 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.
Cast
- Claire Trevor as Dallas
- John Wayne as The Ringo Kid
- George Bancroft as Marshal Curly Wilcox
- Andy Devine as Buck
- Thomas Mitchell as Doc Josiah Boone
- John Carradine as Hatfield
Themes
- marriage proposal
- prostitute
- new mexico
- arizona
- infant
- outcast
- fugitive
- shootout
- black and white
- doctor
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
57,694 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
93/100
- Year
- 1939
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Western
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 2 Oscars. 10 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- John Ford
- Screenplay by
- Dudley Nichols
- Based on
- "The Stage to Lordsburg", 1937 story in Collier's , by Ernest Haycox
- Produced by
- Walter Wanger
- Starring
- Claire Trevor John Wayne Andy Devine John Carradine Thomas Mitchell Louise Platt George Bancroft Donald Meek Berton Churchill Tim Holt
- Cinematography
- Bert Glennon
- Edited by
- Otho Lovering Dorothy Spencer
- Music by
- Richard Hageman Franke Harling Louis Gruenberg John Leipold Leo Shuken Gerard Carbonara (uncredited) Stephen Pasternacki (uncredited)
- Production company
- Walter Wanger Productions
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release dates
- February 2, 1939 ( 1939-02-02 ) (Los Angeles) March 3, 1939 ( 1939-03-03 ) (U.S.)
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $531,374
- Box office
- $1,103,757
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Encyclopedic overview
Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows an eclectic group of travelers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.
The film has long been recognized as an important work transcending the Western genre, and is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. Still, Stagecoach has not avoided controversy. Like most Westerns of the era, its depiction of Native Americans as mere savages has been criticized.
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