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. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows an eclectic group of travelers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.

Plot

In June 1880, stage driver Buck prepares a stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Among the passengers are Dallas, a prostitute driven out of town by the "Law and Order League"; the alcoholic doctor Josiah Boone; snobbish belle 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 6th cavalry regiment across the border apache arizona territory army officer arrest baby buckboard cavalry cavalry officer confederate army expect ferry geronimo kansas city kill law and order mexico morning prostitute rescue ride shotgun river smoke signal stagecoach strand u.s. cavalry wound
musicBy	Gerard Carbonara John Leipold Leo Shuken Louis Gruenberg Richard Hageman W. Franke Harling
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