''Stagecoach'' is a 1939 American Western film directed by

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and starring

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and

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in his breakthrough role. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by

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. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a

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through dangerous Apache territory. The film has long been recognized as an important work that transcends the Western genre. Philosopher

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has observed that both the collection of characters and their journey "are archetypal rather than merely individual" and that the film is a "mythic representation of the American aspiration toward a form of politically meaningful equality." In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States

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and selected for preservation in their

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. Still, ''Stagecoach'' has not avoided controversy. Like most Westerns of the era, its depiction of Native Americans as simplistic savages has been criticized. ''Stagecoach'' was the first of many Westerns that Ford shot in Monument Valley, on the

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–

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border in the American Southwest. Many of the movies Ford shot there also starred John Wayne. Scenes from ''Stagecoach'', including a sequence introducing John Wayne's character the Ringo Kid, blended shots of Monument Valley with shots filmed on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, RKO Encino

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, and other locations. Geographic incongruities are visible throughout the film, including the closing scene where Ringo (Wayne) and Dallas (Trevor) depart Lordsburg, in southwestern New Mexico, by way of Monument Valley.

Plot

In June 1880, a group of strangers boards the

from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Among them are Dallas, a

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driven out of town by the "Law and Order League"; the alcoholic Doc Boone; pregnant Lucy Mallory, who is travelling to join her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock. Buck, the stage driver, looks for his shotgun guard, and Marshal Curley Wilcox tells him that the guard is off searching for the Ringo Kid. Ringo has broken out of prison after hearing that his father and brother were murdered by Luke Plummer. Buck tells Curley that Ringo is heading for Lordsburg. Knowing that Ringo has vowed vengeance, Curley decides to ride the stage as guard. As the stagecoach sets out,

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Lieutenant Blanchard announces that Geronimo and his Apaches are on the warpath, and that the small cavalry troop will provide an escort to Dry Fork. Upon seeing her distress, gambler and Southern gentleman Hatfield offers his protection to Mrs. Mallory and climbs aboard. At the edge of town Henry Gatewood, a banker absconding with embezzled money, flags down the stage and joins the passengers. Further along the road, the stage comes across the Ringo Kid, stranded when his horse went lame. Though Curley and Ringo are friends, Curley takes Ringo into custody and crowds him into the coach. When they reach Dry Fork, they learn the expected cavalry detachment has gone on to Apache Wells. Buck wants to turn back, but most of the party votes to proceed. The group is taken aback when Ringo invites Dallas to sit at the main table for lunch. As they are eating Hatfield reveals that he served in the Confederate Army under the command of Mrs. Mallory's father in

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. At Apache Wells, Mrs. Mallory learns that her husband had been wounded in battle with the Apaches. When she faints and goes into labor, Doc Boone sobers up and delivers the baby with Dallas assisting. Later that night, Ringo asks Dallas to marry him and live on a ranch he owns in

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. Afraid to reveal her past, she does not answer immediately. The next morning, she accepts, but does not want to leave Mrs. Mallory and the new baby, so she tells Ringo to go on alone to his ranch, where she will meet him later. As Ringo is escaping, he sees

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s heralding an Apache attack and returns to custody. The stage reaches Lee's Ferry, which the Apaches have destroyed. Curley uncuffs Ringo to help lash logs to the stagecoach and float it across the river. Just when they think the danger has passed, Apaches attack. A long chase follows, where some of the party are injured fighting off their pursuers. Just as they run out of ammunition and Hatfield is getting ready to save Mrs. Mallory from capture by killing her with his last bullet, he himself is mortally wounded. The 6th U.S. Cavalry rides to the rescue. At Lordsburg Gatewood the banker is arrested by the local sheriff and Mrs. Mallory learns that her husband's wound is not serious. She thanks Dallas, who gives Mrs. Mallory her shawl. Dallas then begs Ringo not to confront the Plummers, but he is determined to settle matters. As they walk through town, he sees the brothel to which she is returning. Luke Plummer, who is playing poker in one of the saloons, hears of Ringo's arrival and gets his brothers to join him in a gunfight to kill Ringo. Ringo survives the three-against-one shootout that follows, then surrenders to Curley, expecting to go back to prison. As Ringo boards a wagon, Curley invites Dallas to ride with them to the edge of town; but when she does so Curley and Doc stampede the horses, letting Ringo ride off with Dallas to his ranch across the border.

Cast

as Dallas *

as Ringo Kid * Andy Devine as Buck * John Carradine as Hatfield * Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone *

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as Lucy Mallory *

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as Marshal Curley Wilcox * Donald Meek as Samuel Peacock * Berton Churchill as Henry Gatewood *

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as Lieutenant Blanchard * Tom Tyler as Luke Plummer Uncredited: *

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as Apache scout * Yakima Canutt as Cavalry scout * Nora Cecil as Boone's landlady * Francis Ford as Sergeant Billy Pickett *

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as Mrs. Gatewood * William Hopper as Sergeant * Duke R. Lee as Lordsburg sheriff *

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as Chris, innkeeper * Vester Pegg as Hank Plummer *

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as Jerry, barkeeper in Tonto *

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as Ike Plummer * Elvira Ríos as Yakima, Chris's Apache wife * White Horse as Apache chief

Production

Development

The screenplay is an adaptation by Dudley Nichols of "The Stage to Lordsburg," a short story by

. The rights to "Lordsburg" were bought by John Ford soon after it was published in '' Collier's'' magazine on April 10, 1937. According to Thomas Schatz, Ford claimed that his inspiration in expanding ''Stagecoach'' beyond the bare-bones plot given in "The Stage to Lordsburg" was his familiarity with another short story, "

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" by

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, although Schatz believes "this scarcely holds up to scrutiny". Ford's statement also seems to be the basis for the claim that Haycox himself relied upon Guy de Maupassant's story. However, there appears to be no concrete evidence for Haycox actually being familiar with the earlier story, especially as he was documented as going out of his way to avoid reading the work of others that might unconsciously influence his writing, and he focused his personal reading in the area of history. Before production, Ford shopped the project around to several Hollywood studios, all of which turned him down because big budget Westerns were out of vogue, and because Ford insisted on using

in the key role in the film. Independent producer

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finally agreed to produce it, but was frustrated by Ford's indecision about when shooting would begin, and had his own doubts over the casting. Ford withdrew the film from Selznick's company and approached independent producer

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about the project. Wanger had the same reservations about producing an "A" western and even more about one starring John Wayne. Ford had not directed a western since the silent days. Wanger said he would not risk his money unless Ford replaced John Wayne with

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and brought in

Marlene Dietrich Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva ; however Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name . (, ; ...

to play Dallas. Ford refused to budge; it would be Wayne or no one. Eventually they compromised, with Wanger putting up $250,000, a little more than half of what Ford had been seeking, and Ford would give top billing to

, better known than John Wayne at the time.

Filming

The members of the production crew were billeted in

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, in Northeastern

, in an old CCC camp. Conditions were spartan, production hours long, and weather conditions at this 5700 foot elevation were extreme with constant strong winds and low temperatures. Nonetheless, director

was satisfied with the crew's location work. For this location, filming took place near Goulding's Trading Post on the Utah border, about 25 miles from Kayenta. Scenes were filmed in Monument Valley locations as well as the Iverson Movie Ranch and the RKO Encino Movie Ranch. ''Stagecoach'' was the first of many Westerns that Ford shot using Monument Valley as a location, many of which also starred John Wayne. Anatopic incongruencies of landscape and vegetation are thus evident throughout the film, up to the closing scene of Ringo and Dallas departing Lordsburg, in the

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of southwestern New Mexico, by way of the unmistakable topography of Monument Valley's Colorado Plateau location.

Reception

The film was released on 2 March 1939, and Ford's faith in John Wayne was rewarded. The film met with immediate critical and trade paper praise,Buscombe, Edward. ''Stagecoach''.

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, 1992. pp. 76–82 and made a profit of $297,690. Cast member Louise Platt, in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford on saying of Wayne's future in film: "He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman'".Letter, Louise Platt to Ned Scott Archive, July 7, 2002
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pp. 39, 40 ''Stagecoach'' has been lauded as one of the most influential films ever made.

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argued that it was a perfect textbook of film-making and claimed to have watched it more than 40 times in preparation for the making of ''

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''. In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States

and selected for preservation in their

. The film has also been recognized as transcending the Western genre.

has observed that both the collection of characters and their journey "are archetypal rather than merely individual" and that the film is a "mythic representation of the American aspiration toward a form of politically meaningful equality." Nevertheless, its depiction of Native Americans is not above criticism. Writing in 2011,

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noted that "The film's attitudes toward Native Americans are unenlightened. The Apaches are seen simply as murderous savages; there is no suggestion the white men have invaded their land. Ford shared that simple view with countless other makers of Westerns, and if it was crude in 1939 it was even more so as late as ''

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'' (1956)."

Awards and honors

Academy Awards

;Wins * Best Supporting Actor – Thomas Mitchell * Best Music (Scoring) – Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold,

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;Nominations * Best Picture * Best Director – John Ford * Best Art Direction – Alexander Toluboff * Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) – Bert Glennon * Best Film Editing – Otho Lovering,

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Others

* John Ford won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Director. Other critics gave the film uniformly glowing reviews. * In June 1998, the

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published its " AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies"—the 100 best American films, in the judgement of over 1,500 movie industry artists and leaders, who selected from a list of 400 nominated films. They ranked ''Stagecoach'' as #63 of the 100 best."The Winners,"
in "America's 100 Greatest Movies: 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES," June 1998,

, retrieved February 16, 2022 * In June 2008, the

revealed its " Ten Top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American Western film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ''Stagecoach'' was acknowledged as the ninth best film in the western genre.

Re-releases and restoration

The film was originally released through

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, but under the terms of its seven-year-rights rule, the company surrendered distribution rights to producer Walter Wanger in 1946. Many independent companies were responsible for this film in the years since. The film's copyright (originally by Walter Wanger Productions) was renewed by

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, who produced a later 1966 remake of ''Stagecoach''. The rights to the original 1939 film were subsequently acquired by Time-Life Films during the 1970s. The copyright has since been reassigned to Wanger Productions through the late producer's family under the Caidin Trust/Caidin Film Company, the ancillary rights holder. However, distribution rights are now held by Shout! Factory, which in 2014 acquired Jumer Productions/Westchester Films (which in turn had bought the Caidin Film holdings after the folding of former distributor Castle Hill Productions).

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handles sales and additional distribution. The original negative of ''Stagecoach'' was either lost or destroyed. Wayne had one positive print that had never been through a projector gate that director Peter Bogdanovich noticed in Wayne's garage while visiting. In 1970, Wayne allowed it to be used to produce a new negative and that is the film seen today at film festivals. UCLA fully restored the film in 1996 from surviving elements and premiered it on cable's American Movie Classics network. The previous DVD releases by

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did not contain the restored print but rather a video print held in the Castle Hill/Caidin Trust library. A digitally restored Blu-ray/DVD version was released in May 2010 via The Criterion Collection.

Lone Ranger radio play

The theme of the movie has been reproduced as a Lone Ranger radio episode "The Last Coach West", which played August 22, 1945. Most main characters in the movie had a counter-part in the radio play. With these character replacements, the plot of the radio play paralleled that of the movie quite closely, with exception of the Lone Ranger and Tonto characters. They acted as heroes in saving the stagecoach occupants from the attacks of Geronimo's warrior Indians. The radio play run time was only about 22 minutes, which is relatively short compared to 96 minutes of the movie. Consequently, character and plot development had to be accelerated, which resulted in weakening the motivation for certain events. For example, the uprising of Geronimo's warriors posed a wide-area threat to many towns and homes in the area, but the Lone Ranger somehow focused on the threat to a single stagecoach that was about to leave a certain town.

Remakes

Radio

* The May 4, 1946 radio episode of

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had Claire Trevor reprise her role alongside Randolph Scott. * The December 7, 1946, radio episode of '' Hollywood Star Time'' presented ''Stagecoach'', adapted by Milton Geiger. * The January 9, 1949 radio episode of Screen Directors Playhouse had John Wayne and Claire Trevor both reprise their parts.

Film

* The 1966 remake of ''Stagecoach'' stars (in alphabetical order)

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as Dallas, Red Buttons as the whiskey drummer, Mike Connors as the gambler, Alex Cord as the Ringo Kid,

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as Doc Boone, Robert Cummings as the embezzler,

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as the Marshal, Slim Pickens as Buck, Stefanie Powers as Lucy, and Keenan Wynn as Luke Plummer.

Television

* A 1986 television version features

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as Doc Holliday, Kris Kristofferson as the Ringo Kid,

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as the Marshal,

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as Hatfield,

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as the embezzler, John Schneider as Buck, Anthony Newley as the whiskey drummer, Elizabeth Ashley as Dallas, Mary Crosby as Lucy, June Carter Cash as Mrs. Pickett, and Jessi Colter as Martha.

References

External links

''Stagecoach''
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''Stagecoach''
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Review of ''Stagecoach''
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by Ernest Haycox
Literature on ''Stagecoach''

''Stagecoach: Taking the Stage''
an essay by David Cairns at the Criterion Collection
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used in ''Stagecoach'' (1939)

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