From the town of Tonto in new Mexico go out to coach a few people. Doc Boone, a drunkard, long expelled from the Guild of physicians. Dallas, a prostitute whose sexual adventures so angered local women, that they threw her out of her is not very high society. Hatfield, Sharpie, posing as a gentleman, a southerner who has his own reasons to leave the Tonto.
He nevertheless pretends that volunteered to escort the pregnant Lucy to her husband, trooper. Henry Gatewood, pompous banker, sits in a stagecoach with a small bag, which he does not let it go.
Samuel peacock, a trader of whiskey, carries a box of samples. These six people make up the list of passengers, and the coachman sits at the top of the Tank, the bruiser who hates Indians, and steep, rough, but honest and simple-Curley, a lawman with a shotgun.
After some time in the way they are joined by the Ringo kid, whose horse is lame. The stagecoach started, wait for adventures!
Stagecoach
| Year | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Country | USA |
| Tagline | Danger holds the reins as the devil cracks the whip ! Desperate men ! Frontier women ! Rising above their pasts in a West corrupted by violence and gunfire ! |
| Director | John Ford |
| Cinematography | Bert Glennon |
| Scriptwriters | Dudley NicholsBen HechtErnest Haycox |
| Produced | John Ford |
| Music | Gerard Carbonara |
| Art Direction | Alexander ToluboffWalter Plunkett |
| Editing | Otho LoveringDorothy SpencerWalter Reynolds |
| Genres | AdventureWestern |
| Release Date | February 10, 1939 |
| MPAA | N |
| Runtime | 96 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Like most of the other films John Ford shot in monument Valley Utah.
"Stagecoach" was one of the few westerns that managed to get into Soviet cinemas. In the Soviet box office film was called "the Journey will be dangerous."
The American film Institute in 2008, put the film in 9th place in the list of the greatest westerns in film history.
In the production of the film was interested in the famous David O. Selznick, but he would undertake only if Ringo played by Gary Cooper, a Dallas Marlene Dietrich.
For Ford, the film was the first sound Western, and all the first Western in 13 years.
To the question why during the chase the Indians just don't shoot the horses to stop the stagecoach, John Ford answered directly and simply: "In this case, the film is over too soon."
After buying the film rights to the story and entrusted to write the screenplay for Nichols Ford in 1937 and tried to sell the project of David O. Selznick. Due to its employment in the production of "Gone with the wind" and the delays start of filming, Ford has moved on to another independent Studio owned by Walter Wanger. The latter insisted on starring recognized stars Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, but Ford flatly refused to make concessions. In the role of Ringo, he saw only John Wayne who has ceased to be a promising actor due to the failure of the Western "the Big trail" (1930).
After negotiations with the Ford Studio wanger finally gave the project a green light, though significantly cut its funding. While Ford had put a condition that all posters in large print is specified, do not obscure Wayne, and popular in those years, the actress Claire Trevor. By adopting this condition, the Director has represented Wayne (his longtime protégé and friend) on the silver screen later than the other actors, and, moreover, in a very spectacular manner. Some of the salient actors moved in "stagecoach" from the previous movie Ford's "the Hurricane" (where a group of people also facing imminent disaster).
