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by John Ford. Buy Study Guide. Stagecoach Summary. The Apache chief Geronimo is on the loose in the territory. In Tonto, a motley group of passengers board a stagecoach headed for Lordsburg. Buck, an affable if silly driver, takes the reins beside Marshal Curley Wilcox.
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Summary. As the stagecoach makes its way through the desert,...
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Summary. Ringo tells them he has a lame horse and wants to...
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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.
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.
Oct 4, 2018 · October 4, 2018. 4,074 4 minutes read. Film and Plot Synopsis. Stagecoach takes place in June of 1880. An eclectic group of settlers boards a stagecoach in Tonto, Arizona Territory. They are all headed to Lordsburg, New Mexico for various reasons.
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Jan 8, 2010 · Summary. The first image of an Apache Indian in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) follows a reaction shot and shout from the whiskey salesman Peacock, as he spots Yakima, the station-keeper Chris's wife. She is, he warns everyone else, “a savage!” and Chris replies jokingly -betraying some obvious pleasure in the thought – that “she is a ...
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- 2002
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. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) The film opens.
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Synopsis. 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.
