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Stagecoach
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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.

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    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 buckboard cavalry cavalry officer coach confederate army confederate states army eat expect geronimo hear injured kill law and order mexican border mexico morning murder prostitute rescue river search serve smoke signal stagecoach strand u.s. cavalry virginia 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