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- 1939
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 36 m
- 1939
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 36 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: John Ford
Written By: Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht
- 1939
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 36 m
- 1939
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 36 m
Stagecoach
7.5
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Summary 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.
Directed By: John Ford
Written By: Ernest Haycox, Dudley Nichols, Ben Hecht
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
93
100% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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Superb performances by John Wayne, Claire Trevor and Thomas Mitchell -- who won the Oscar for best supporting actor -- make for an authentic classic that has been copied but never equaled. [25 Feb 2008, p.C8]
The contrast between the innocence of the wilderness and the ambiguous 'blessings of civilisation' are brilliantly stitched into a smoothly developed narrative, which climaxes with the famous Indian attack on the stagecoach.
Stagecoach gives fine shading to a simple story, making it look and feel like a forgotten American myth.
Here, in a sentence, is a movie of the grand old school, a genuine rib-thumper and a beautiful sight to see.
Perhaps the most likable of all Westerns, and a Grand Hotel-on-wheels movie that has just about everything--adventure, romance, chivalry--and all of it very simple and traditional.
If this is the Old West of our dreams, it’s one that exists in an outsider’s limbo, away from society’s rules, alternating between the breathtaking breadth of the American landscape and the Germanically shadowy lighting of Ford’s claustrophobic interiors.
Certainly it's the weakest of Ford's major westerns, burdened with a schematic and pretentious Dudley Nichols script (the "cross section of society" on board the stagecoach), but its virtues remain intact.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
7.5
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
7.5
79% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
15% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
6% Negative
2 Ratings
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Production Company
Walter Wanger Productions
Release Date Mar 3, 1939
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Approved
Tagline Danger holds the reins as the devil cracks the whip ! Desperate men ! Frontier women ! Rising above their pasts in a West corrupted by violence and gun-fire !
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
