Stagecoach 1939

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 97 min

genre: western

director: John Ford

Score: 7 / 10

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group primarily composed of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.

Plot

In June 1880, a stage driver and four passengers prepare to board the coach from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Among them are Dallas, a prostitute driven out of town by the "Law and Order League"; the alcoholic Doc Boone; snobbish Southerner Lucy Mallory, who is travelling to join her cavalry officer husband; and diminutive whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock.

Awards

Cast

More details

author	Ben Hecht Dudley Nichols Ernest Haycox
award	Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	New Mexico
director	John Ford
editor	Dorothy Spencer Otho Lovering
genre	western
keywords	6th cavalry regiment 6th u.s. cavalry across the border apache arizona territory arrest attack baby cavalry cavalry officer coach confederate army confederate states army eat expect geronimo hear injured kill law and order mexico morning murder prostitute rescue river search serve smoke signal stagecoach strand u.s. cavalry virginia wound
musicBy	Richard Hageman
nomination	Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
producer	Walter Wanger
productionCompany	Walter Wanger Productions
publisher	United Artists
recordedAt	Arizona Utah