Stagecoach (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 25, 2010
- Originally Released: 1939
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft & John Carradine | |
Performer: | Tim Holt & Donald Meek | |
Directed by | John Ford | |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer | |
Screenwriting by | Dudley Nichols | |
Composition by | Louis Gruenberg, Frank Harling, Boris Morros, Richard Hageman, John Leipold & Leo Shuken | |
Art Direction by | Alexander Toluboff | |
Story by | Ernest Haycox | |
Produced by | Walter Wanger | |
Director of Photography: | Bert Glennon |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1939 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken & Richard Hageman
Academy Awards 1939 -
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell
Entertainment Reviews:
Directorially, production is John Ford in peak form, sustaining interest and suspense throughout, and presenting exceptional characterizations. Picture is a display of photographic grandeur.
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Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
Classic John Wayne Western masterpiece promotes tolerance.
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Common Sense Media
...This is myth-making writ large, full of Ford's enduring themes, daring stunt work, and peerless eye for composition...
Premiere
Rating: 4/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A classic as sharply defined and indelible as the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley, John Ford's 1939 Western is in every sense a landmark.
Sight and Sound
...[The story] feels nourishingly archetypal, especially John Wayne's turn as the outlaw Ringo Kid...
Entertainment Weekly
[T]here's still a sophistication to STAGECOACH that goes well beyond its silent movie and stage melodrama roots....A small film but it casts a long shadow.
Empire
Product Description:
Regarded by many as the best Western ever made, STAGECOACH shot John Wayne to stardom and elevated the prestige of a genre that had hitherto been considered a B-movie province. With rumors in the air of a possible Apache attack, a motley group of travelers in a small New Mexico town board the Overland Stage bound for Lordsburg. Among them are the pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt); timid liquor salesman Peacock (Donald Meek); Hatfield, an aloof gambler (John Carradine); Gatewood (Berton Churchill), a pompous, embezzling banker; and two who have been exiled from town, alcoholic Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell) and Dallas (Clair Trevor), a lady of the evening. Along the trail, they pick up the Ringo Kid (John Wayne), an outlaw who's escaped from prison to take revenge on the Plummer brothers for destroying his family and framing him for murder. As their journey progresses, the hypocrisy of the supposedly respectable passengers becomes clear, and it's the tainted outsiders who display courage and humanity. Described by Orson Welles, who watched the film innumerable times before making CITIZEN KANE, as his cinematic textbook, STAGECOACH is superbly made in every respect, layering humor and sharp characterization into an exciting plot that includes a spectacularly photographed chase in Monument Valley.
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