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With rumors buzzing about a potential Indian raid, a mélange of troubled passengers climbs aboard the Overland Stage headed for Lordsburg. En route they run into the Ringo Kid (John Wayne), a not...( read more 
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MCT:July 14, 2008One of the first great westerns this one led the way for others to do on location shooting with its expansive look at Monument valley. But that is not the films defining attribute for me. It made John Wayne a star with its first shot of him and its heroic portrayal of his character. But that too is not one of its greatest aspects. It is the interaction between the individuals in the stagecoach itself, including the driver and sheriff, which make this a great piece of cinema. There is Buck the pessimistic throaty driver who offers much of the comic relief as he talks with the sheriff who is both the antagonist for John Wayne?s Ringo and his helper in small way. Inside the stagecoach there is the gamber, a southern man with honor, who is played with a certain pride by David Carradine?s father John Carradine. There is also a pregnant wife of a soldier determined to meet up with her husband, and along breaks down barriers of her own. Perhaps the greatest actor inside the cabin at the time is Thomas Mitchell as the drunken doctor who is always cheery, but can be of service when forced to. The other two the irate banker and the little preacher are not so much great, but interesting addition who give some contrast to the others I?ll be it a little. The final two are Ringo the Kid who is picked up on the road and Dallas, Clair Trevor?s tramp / harlot, who is run out of another town in the beginning. She?s the staple hooker with the heart of gold out of the dime novels, but that?s alright, the other characters more than makeup for her convention in that character. Pretty much everything clicks in this classic western, which is not to be confused with the classical western full of archetypes as discussed by some referring to Shane. This one is similar to that, but more rounded I think.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
good old-fashioned cowboys and indians, main street shoot-outs, comi-dramatically clashing ensemble characters, sublte romance and chivalry, and pioneering filmmaking. a strong and honest precedent for later Western films and some great cinematography that introduced the mainstream world to John Wayne with an epic zoom. awesome classic.
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Except for the moronic Indians that ride along side the stagecoach for target practice, this is a really good movie. I didn't realize John Wayne was such a good actor. I should watch more of his movies.
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MCT:June 10, 2008I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
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MCT:May 29, 2008
Stagecoach is an excellent film, and there's no denying that. It has a simple plot, but is executed very well. All of the actors are terrific in their roles. And I especially liked the different sub-plots. One thing that could've made it better is if just a little more action happened. There was a terrific action sequence towards the end (with TERRIFIC stunts), but I wish there'd be more.
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MCT:April 18, 2008This is a damned good Western. This might be the most fun John Ford movie I've seen. (I haven't seen most of them, but I have seen a few of them.)
This movie is very straightforward, which is why I think it works. Ford builds this amazing tension with this very simple premise. Sure, we have that guy with that voice as comic relief, but this movie is amazingly stressful with a fun DVD cover / poster. I mean, it looks pleasant. You never thought that the movie would be about people having to make a long trip through deadly territory.
You know when Serenity had to fly through Reaver territory? Voyager had to pass through Borg space? Ripley having to walk through the infested corridors? That's this entire movie. Pretty much, all those scenes were stolen from this movie. Sure, it's not as scary as all that, but there certainly is a mood of "anything could happen anytime" throughout. Eventually, it does. (If it didn't, I might have been pissed. Or I might have given it that extra half star just for giving me the finger But that action breaking out was some really great stuff. Yes, a lot of involves shots of people firing pistols at Indians and then the Indians falling over. But then there's this scene of John Wayne's stunt double grabbing the reigns of an out-of-control stagecoach. Then there's the Indian getting trampled. Wow.
I forgot that John Wayne was in this one. I saw his name in the opening credits, but it just went over my head. Then he showed up and I was amazed. Mainly because John Wayne really is a young guy in this movie. We always see him as the older, wiser character who don't take no sh*t from no strangers. Well, he still don't take no sh*t, but he's a youngin'. But he can still rassle with best of them. Yeah, it's a good casting choice, but this isn't the John Wayne we all know and love yet. But if it wasn't for this movie, who knows? Maybe Ford wouldn't cast him in later stuff. But I do love Wayne's romantic subplot in this movie. It's a really great story and makes this far more than just an ol' timey Western from 1939. There's some substance that's really great and I think I might get this movie. Maybe it's in the Ford at Fox box...I'll never be able to afford that! -
MCT:April 17, 2008
Thrilling, humorous, moving. the good adjectives to describe the first Ford-Wayne masterpiece are countless. A magnificent film with richness all over, heroism, racism, social class struggles, love stories and a charming alcoholic played by Thomas Mitchell.
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MCT:March 25, 2008
They tried to make Wayne a star ten years earlier with The Big TRail and it flopped. He waited and when this part came to him, a legend was born!
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MCT:February 27, 2008
This western rocked my socks. However, despite the end being totally awesome I was like "what does this have to do with the main stagecoach story?" Wayne's performance wasn't the best but is certainly memorable. and Thomas Mitchell was flawless as the alcoholic doctor.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
Pending Review...
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MCT:January 5, 2008an early john wayne film that didnt stand up to some of his later efforts. rated it somewhere else before being on flixster
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MCT:October 25, 2007
This is the only John Wayne movie I've seen so far and I thought it was pretty cool. I like how all the characters come together.
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MCT:October 18, 2007
There's thrilling adventure. There's a young John Wayne. There's a stagecoach. This is the grandfather of movies about a bunch of stranger crammed into a small space while they make a dangerous trip.
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MCT:September 12, 2007
Never thought I could enjoy a Western this old as much as I did. A great movie about the "blessings of civilization."
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MCT:June 7, 2007
Maybe not his greatest and most acclaimed, but for sure, his most intimtae and beautiful one! A carnival of images and dialogues to be engraved in the minds of the audience!
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MCT:June 3, 2007
The Duke's first western really made a name for him. John Ford was an excellent director and the film was filmed in monument valley where the old west still seems preserved even today.
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MCT:May 30, 2007
i can't believe i rated this movie a 'not interested' tab! when daddy brought home the dvd copy of the movie, the stunts were amazing! and considering the technologies during the time this was filmed were basically non-existent, how they filmed those stunts was mind-boggling. really. ad the story... well, it's a timeless classic, that's all i can say.
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MCT:May 24, 2007
A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, a pregnant woman, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.
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MCT:April 20, 2007Of the 200 John Wayne westerns this one was simply a cookie-cutter popcorn film for the post-war America. No cinematic value whatsoever.
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MCT:April 14, 2007
John Ford kind of didn't speak to John Wayne for two and a half years, then suddenly he thought that guy who'd once been a fun USC prop boy and was now a B movie Westerner might be pretty good in a film.
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MCT:February 25, 2007
A classic example of formal shot aesthetics. Stagecoach serves not only as a fine academic example but as a rousing template western. A young John Wayne ensures legendary status after years of working in obscurity.
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MCT:February 24, 2007
A disparate collection of strangers are forced together to fight for their lives against indian attack in a classic western from the master of the genre, John Ford.
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MCT:February 1, 2007
Changed Westerns from B films to A films. All it took was the combination of John Ford and John Wayne. Great cast, great story.
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