''Stagecoach to Fury'' is a 1956 American

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film directed by William F. Claxton and starring

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and

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. It was the first film from Robert L. Lippert's Regal films; the

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unit of

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set up to provide

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s shot in CinemaScope. The film, with exteriors shot around

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was nominated for an

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for black-and-white cinematography for the

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. Others in the film include

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as Judge Lester Farrell, Ellen Corby as Sarah Farrell,

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as Ralph Slader, Paul Fix as Tim O'Connors, and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., as Lorenzo Gracia.

Plot

A stagecoach with a mixed group of passenger en route to the town of Fury makes a stop at a layover. Upon arrival the passengers are held up by Lorenzo Garcia and his gang of

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capture and disarm the passengers, shooting one when he stops to raise his fallen trousers when he puts his hands up. The two staff of the coaching stop are missing presumed murdered. Garcia questions former Army captain Frank Townsend, now

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on the stagecoach on the location of the Federal Government gold shipment they expected to be carried by the stagecoach. After Garcia shoots and wounds Tim O'Connor the driver to encourage information, Townsend reveals that the stagecoach was to remain at the layover until a wagon containing the gold shipment would arrive and transfer the cargo to the stage. Garcia holds the prisoners as his band awaits the gold shipment. Among the surviving passengers are young

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Ralph Slader, who the bandidos are eager to have a gunfight with, a cowardly judge escaping from the vengeance of criminals, a scheming woman who has arranged to rob and murder her husband and Townsend's fiancée. Though Garcia explains the passengers will remain safe if they follow his orders, Townsend feels that Garcia would not want any witnesses to his robbery to be left alive.

Cast

Production

Parts of the film were shot in the Gap in

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Quotes

"Justice sometimes moves in strange company. Its judgement is not always empty. Though its sting be cruel."

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