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Stagecoach

1986 · 1h 40m · UNRATED TV Movie, Western
Directed by Ted Post

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Story follows a stagecoach ride through Old West Apache territory. On board are a cavalry man's pregnant wife, a prostitute with a broken heart, a Marshal taking in his prisoner Johnny Ringo, a crooked gambler, and the infamous Doc Holliday

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Fresh

Its virtues remain intact.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Directorially, production is John Ford in peak form, sustaining interest and suspense throughout, and presenting exceptional characterizations. Picture is a display of photographic grandeur.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Seen today, Stagecoach may not seem very original. That's because it influenced countless later movies in which a mixed bag of characters are thrown together by chance and forced to survive an ordeal.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

John Ford has swept aside ten years of artifice and talkie compromise and has made a motion picture that sings a song of camera.

Frank S. Nugent, New York Times
Fresh

Impossible to overstate the influence of Ford's magnificent film, generally considered to be the first modern Western.

Time Out

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