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Stagecoach (1939)

G Mar 02, 1939 Western, Adventure 1h 36m
User Score
76%
1,162 votes
Internet Movie Database
78%
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
9300%

A powerful story of nine strange people.

Overview

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.

Dudley Nichols
Screenplay
John Ford
Director

Top Billed Cast

Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor

Dallas
John Wayne
John Wayne

The Ringo Kid
George Bancroft
George Bancroft

Marshal Curly Wilcox
Andy Devine
Andy Devine

Buck
Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell

Doc Josiah Boone
John Carradine
John Carradine

Hatfield
Donald Meek
Donald Meek

Samuel Peacock
Berton Churchill
Berton Churchill

Ellsworth H. Gatewood
Louise Platt
Louise Platt

Lucy Mallory

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Stagecoach (1939) Official Trailer - John Wayne, John Ford Western Movie HD
Stagecoach (1939) Official Trailer - John Wayne, John Ford Western Movie HD
Trailer
John Badham on STAGECOACH
John Badham on STAGECOACH
Featurette
STAGECOACH Clip (1939) - The Criterion Collection
STAGECOACH Clip (1939) - The Criterion Collection
Clip
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Reviews

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A review by John Chard
Written on March 22, 2020

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...

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