Stagecoach (1939 film)

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols, is an adaptation of The Stage to Lordsburg, a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.

In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the eastbound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance. Among them are Dallas Claire Trevor, a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the Law and Order League an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone Thomas Mitchell pregnant Lucy Mallory Louise Platt, who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock Donald Meek.When the stage driver, Buck Andy Devine, looks for his normal shotgun guard, Marshal Curly Wilcox George Bancroft tells him that the guard has gone searching for fugitive the Ringo Kid. Buck tells Marshal Wilcox that Luke Plummer Tom Tyler is in Lordsburg. Knowing that Kid has vowed to avenge the deaths of his father and brother at Plummers hands, the marshal decides to ride along as guard. ........

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