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.
Direction
Ford invented the Western visual language here.
Cinematography
Monument Valley's jaw-dropping debut on screen.
Acting
Wayne's entrance: star-making charisma in one shot.
Director
John Ford
Claire Trevor
Dallas
John Wayne
The Ringo Kid
George Bancroft
Marshal Curly Wilcox
Andy Devine
Buck
Thomas Mitchell
Doc Josiah Boone
John Carradine
Hatfield
Donald Meek
Samuel Peacock
Berton Churchill
Ellsworth H. Gatewood
Louise Platt
Lucy Mallory
Tim Holt
Lt. Blanchard
Tom Tyler
Luke Plummer
Chief John Big Tree
Indian Scout (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt
Cavalry Scout / Indian Attacking Stagecoach (uncredited)
Francis Ford
Sgt. Billy Pickett (uncredited)
William Hopper
Sergeant (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ford had to fight studio executives who wanted to shoot on soundstages; his insistence on location shooting in Monument Valley created the iconic American landscape.
Orson Welles watched Stagecoach forty times while preparing Citizen Kane, studying Ford's deep-focus compositions and ensemble staging.
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