Stagecoach
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 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
- Andy Devine
- Artie Ortego
- Berton Churchill
- Brenda Fowler
- Bryant Washburn
- Buddy Roosevelt
- Chrispin Martin
- Claire Trevor
- Donald Meek
- Duke R. Lee
- Elvira Ríos
- Francis Ford
- Franklyn Farnum
- George Bancroft
- Hank Worden
- Harry Tenbrook
- Helen Gibson
- Jack Pennick
- Joe Rickson
- John Carradine
- John Wayne
- Louise Platt
- Marga Ann Deighton
- Nora Cecil
- Steve Clemente
- Thomas Mitchell
- Tim Holt
- Tom Tyler
- Vester Pegg
- Walter McGrail
- William Hopper
- Woody Strode
- Yakima Canutt