Stagecoach

Stagecoach

Introduction by guest programmer Adam Piron.

Introduction by guest programmer Adam Piron.

John Ford’s landmark Western, his first of many filmed in Monument Valley, has remained one of his most discussed, celebrated, and critiqued works eighty-five years later. The film was nominated for seven Oscars and won for Thomas Mitchell’s supporting performance and the score by Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, and Leo Shuken. With John Wayne’s star turn as the Ringo Kid joining eight other passengers on their intrusion across Apache land, Stagecoach arguably became a major catalyst for a renaissance of the Western film in Hollywood’s classical era and its legacy is widely seen throughout all of cinema.

DIRECTED BY: John Ford. WRITTEN BY: Dudley Nichols. WITH: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine. 1939. 96 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP.

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