Stagecoach (1939)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: John Ford
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, George Bancroft, Andy Devine
Synopsis:
Assorted travellers board a stagecoach, most of them running from something, and right into the path of marauding Indians.
Review:
Walter Wanger's production is really a classic ensemble piece in Western garb, a thinly disguised re-working of Maupassant's Boule de Suif. It also contains many archetypal Western situations and characters: the tart with a heart, indians on the warpath, the gunslinger who wants to settle down. Wayne's career was finally launched, as was his partnership with Ford, and Monument Valley, Arizona, made its debut as the director's favoured backdrop (regardless of continuity!)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: John Ford
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, George Bancroft, Andy Devine
Synopsis:
Assorted travellers board a stagecoach, most of them running from something, and right into the path of marauding Indians.
Review:
Walter Wanger's production is really a classic ensemble piece in Western garb, a thinly disguised re-working of Maupassant's Boule de Suif. It also contains many archetypal Western situations and characters: the tart with a heart, indians on the warpath, the gunslinger who wants to settle down. Wayne's career was finally launched, as was his partnership with Ford, and Monument Valley, Arizona, made its debut as the director's favoured backdrop (regardless of continuity!)
Country: US
Technical: bw 99m
Director: John Ford
Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, George Bancroft, Andy Devine
Synopsis:
Assorted travellers board a stagecoach, most of them running from something, and right into the path of marauding Indians.
Review:
Walter Wanger's production is really a classic ensemble piece in Western garb, a thinly disguised re-working of Maupassant's Boule de Suif. It also contains many archetypal Western situations and characters: the tart with a heart, indians on the warpath, the gunslinger who wants to settle down. Wayne's career was finally launched, as was his partnership with Ford, and Monument Valley, Arizona, made its debut as the director's favoured backdrop (regardless of continuity!)