Stagecoach (1939)
Directed by John Ford
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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In film genre history, Stagecoach marks the shift from primitive stage ( The Great Train Robbery , 1903) to the paradigmatic classical western.
It was once nicknamed Grand Hotel on wheels but Ford’s mix of high culture, working folk,+ and disreputable characters tossed together under the threat of Apache attack is much more egalitarian and, for all of the melodramatic potential of the personal stories that collide, human than the famous, glossy MGM melodrama.
What "42nd Street" did for musicals, “Psycho” and “Night of the Living Dead” did for modern horror films, and what “Star Wars: A New Hope” did for latter day space operas, “Stagecoach” did for Westerns.
This was Ford's first oater since his silent 3 Bad Men from 1926 and Ford deliberately set out to fashion a classic western.