Fresh
Its virtues remain intact.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Stagecoach
A powerful story of nine strange people.
1939 · 1h 36m · Approved
Adventure, Western
Directed by
John Ford
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- John Ford Director
- Claire Trevor as Dallas
- John Wayne as The Ringo Kid
- George Bancroft as Marshal Curly Wilcox
- Andy Devine as Buck
- Thomas Mitchell as Doc Josiah Boone
- John Carradine as Hatfield
- Donald Meek as Samuel Peacock
- Berton Churchill as Ellsworth H. Gatewood
- Louise Platt as Lucy Mallory
- Tim Holt as Lt. Blanchard
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
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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