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Stagecoach is a 1939 American black-and-white Western drama film directed by John Ford and produced by Walter Wanger. The screenplay was written by Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht, and Ernest Haycox, with music composed by Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, Louis Gruenberg, and John Leipold. The cast includes John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, and Thomas Mitchell. Filming took place in Arizona and Utah, with the narrative set in New Mexico.
The film was distributed by United Artists, Netflix, and Disney+. It has a runtime of 96 minutes and an aspect ratio of 4:3. Costume design was handled by Walter Plunkett, with editing by Otho Lovering and Dorothy Spencer. Stagecoach received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. It also won the National Board of Review Top Ten Films award.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- John Ford
- Screenwriter
- Ernest Haycox
- Cast member
- William Hopper
- Composer
- Gerard Carbonara
- Producer
- Walter Wanger
- Production company
- United Artists
- Cinematographer
- Bert Glennon
- Narrative location
- New Mexico
- Filming location
- Utah
- Duration
- 97
- FilmAffinity ID
- 288500
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Stagecoach-09.jpg
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- publication date
- 1939-03-02
- Commons category
- Stagecoach (1939 film)
- film editor
- Dorothy Spencer
- title
- Stagecoach
- distributed by
- Disney+
- color
- black-and-white
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- costume designer
- Walter Plunkett
- capital cost
- 531300
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.8/10
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