Stagecoach to Fury

Stagecoach to Fury is a 1956 Western film starring Forrest Tucker as Frank Townsend. It was the first film from Robert L. Lipperts Regal films the B picture unit of 20th Century Fox set up to provide second features shot in CinemaScope. The film, with exteriors shot around Kanab, Utah was nominated for an Academy Award for blackandwhite cinematography for the 29th Academy Awards.

A stagecoach with a mixed group of passenger en route to the town of Fury makes a stop at a layover. Upon arrival the passengers are held up by Lorenzo Garcia and his gang of bandidos capture and disarm the passengers, shooting one when he stops to raise his fallen trousers when he puts his hands up. The two staff of the coaching stop are missing presumed murdered. Garcia questions former Army captain Frank Townsend, now riding shotgun on the stagecoach on the location of the Federal Government gold shipment they expected to be carried by the stagecoach. After Garcia shoots and wounds Tim OConnor the driver to encourage information, Townsend reveals that the stagecoach was to remain at the layover until a wagon containing the gold shipment would arrive and transfer the cargo to the stage.Garcia holds the prisoners as his band awaits the gold shipment. Among the surviving passengers are young gunslinger Ralph Slader, who the bandidos are eager to have a gunfight with, a cowardly judge escaping from the vengenace of criminals, a scheming woman who has arranged to rob and murder her husband and Townsends fiancee. Though Garcia explains the passengers will remain safe if they follow his orders, Townsend feels that Garcia would not any witnesses to his robbery to be left alive. ........

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