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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.
Stagecoach: Directed by John Ford. With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine. A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Stagecoach (1939) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Aug 1, 2011 · You will meet a prostitute with a heart of gold, and an evil banker, and a shifty gambler, and a pure-hearted heroine, and murderous Apaches, and a sultry Indian wife, and a meek little traveling man, and a chase scene with a stagecoach driver going hell for leather.
Stagecoach, American western film, released in 1939, that is a classic of the genre, widely considered to be the first “adult” western. One of director John Ford’s defining movies, it also elevated John Wayne to stardom.
In June 1880, a group of strangers boards the stagecoach 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; pregnant Lucy Mallory, who is travelling to join her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock.
John Ford's landmark Western revolves around an assorted group of colorful passengers aboard the Overland stagecoach bound for Lordsburg, New Mexico, in the 1880s.
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