Stagecoach
The movie follows a group of strangers who have nothing in common yet learn something about each other over the course of their voyage, since they have to team up to struggle through natural disasters and attacks by outlaws and Indians.
2 June 1877, Buffalo, New York, USA
November 8, 1877 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA
26 January 1915, New York City, New York, USA
July 13, 1900 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
November 8, 1901 in Canada
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 November 1895, Colfax, Washington, USA
May 26, 1890 in Bombay, India
7 December 1895, Portland, Oregon, USA
February 3, 1889 in Paris, France
June 01, 2010
...a thoughtful ensemble examination of grace (and lack of grace) under stress.
May 20, 2003
John Ford has swept aside ten years of artifice and talkie compromise and has made a motion picture that sings a song of camera.
February 10, 2012
Its virtues remain intact.
November 21, 2011
[VIDEO] Orson Welles famously said he watched "Stagecoach" 40 times before he made "Citizen Kane." It's easy to see why.
November 24, 2011
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.
August 16, 2011
One of the best early westerns ever made.
February 10, 2012
Modern movies began here.
January 18, 2011
Classic John Wayne Western masterpiece promotes tolerance.
June 24, 2006
Impossible to overstate the influence of Ford's magnificent film, generally considered to be the first modern Western.
June 22, 2010
Stagecoach is not just one of the greatest and most influential Westerns ever made; it's also a template for the ensemble film.
February 10, 2012
With this, Ford transformed the western from fading B-movie filler into genuine adult fare.
February 10, 2012
Directorially, production is John Ford in peak form, sustaining interest and suspense throughout, and presenting exceptional characterizations. Picture is a display of photographic grandeur.
