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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1939
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Genre
Western
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“Stagecoach reverberates with an impressive array of Fordian themes and motifs. Above all, there is the sense of an assemblage of mythical archetypes outlined against horizons of history.”
Andrew Sarris, You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet: The American Talking Film, 1998
Based on a 1937 story by Ernest Haycox, with more than a touch of Guy de Maupassant’s celebrated short story ‘Boule de suif’, Stagecoach brought the western new depth and respectability after a decade in which cowboy films were usually cheaply made shoot-’em-ups.
John Wayne was a regular in two-bit westerns himself, until this star-making turn as the Ringo Kid, an outlaw who joins the motley passengers on the stage from Arizona to New Mexico. Their fraught journey takes them through Indian country and the imposing buttes of Monument Valley. Forever associated with his westerns, this was the first time Ford made advantage of this extraordinary landscape. The Apache chase sequences are master-classes in action editing.
Orson Welles studied Stagecoach repeatedly prior to making Citizen Kane (1941). And 1939 was a great vintage for Ford, who also produced Drums along the Mohawk and Young Mr. Lincoln.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Dallas
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The Ringo Kid
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Buck Rickabaugh, stagecoach driver
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Hatfield
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Doc Josiah Boone
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Lucy Mallory
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Marshal Curley Wilcox
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Samuel Peacock
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Henry Gatewood
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Lt Blanchard
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Luke Plummer
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[Chris]
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[Captain Whitney]
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[Yakeema, Chris's wife]
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[Sgt Billy Pickett]
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[Mrs Nancy Whitney]
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[Mrs Pickett]
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[Captain Sickels]
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[Express agent]
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[Mrs Gatewood]
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[Indian scout]
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[cavalry scout]
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[Indian leader]
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[Captain Simmons]
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[Lordsburg sheriff]
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[Billy Pickett Jr]
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[telegrapher]
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[Jerry, the bartender]
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[sheriff]
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[Ike Plummer]
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[Boone's landlady]
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[Lucy's baby]
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[cavalry sergeant]
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[saloon keeper]
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[Hank Plummer]
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[rancher]
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[rancher]
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[Lordsburg express agent]
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[Ed, editor in Lordsburg]
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[bartender]
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[Jim, an Express man]
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[deputy]
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[ogler]
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[Lordsburg barfly]
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[dance hall girl]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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[2nd Unit Director]
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Assistant Director
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[Assistant Director]
Production:
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©/Production Company
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Released thru
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Presents
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[Production Manager]
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[Assistant Production Manager]
Writing:
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Screenplay
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Original story
Photography:
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Director of Photography
Stills:
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[Stills]
Special Effects:
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[Special Photography]
Editing:
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Film Editor
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Film Editor
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[Film Editor]
Design:
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Art Direction
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[Art Direction] Associate
Costumes:
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Costumes
Music:
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Musical Direction
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M Score Based on Am Folk Songs Adptd by
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M Score Based on Am Folk Songs Adptd by
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M Score Based on Am Folk Songs Adptd by
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M Score Based on Am Folk Songs Adptd by
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M Score Based on Am Folk Songs Adptd by
Sound:
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Sound
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Sound System
Stunts:
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[Stunts]
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[Stunts]
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[Stunts]
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