Stagecoach (1939 film)

• Directed by: John Ford
• Produced by: Walter Wanger (Executive producer)
• Written by: Dudley Nichols & Ben Hecht, based on story by Ernest Haycox
• Starring: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft, Donald Meek, Tim Holt, and Tom Tyler
• Music by: Gerard Carbonara
• Cinematography: Bert Glennon
• Editing by: Otho Lovering, Dorothy Spencer, and Walter Reynolds
• Distributed by: United Artists
• Release date: February 15, 1939
• Running time: 96 min.

Stagecoach is a 1939 western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of The Stage to Lordsburg, a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox.

Although Ford had made many silent films in the Western genre prior to Stagecoach, this was his first using sound. It was also the first of many films which Ford made on location in Monument Valley, in the American southwest on the Arizona - Utah border, many of which starred John Wayne.

Cast

• Claire Trevor as Dallas
• John Wayne as The Ringo Kid
• Andy Devine as Buck
• John Carradine as Hatfield
• Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone
• Louise Platt as Lucy Mallory George Bancroft as Marshal Curly Wilcox
• Donald Meek as Samuel Peacock
• Berton Churchill as Henry Gatewood
• Tim Holt as Lt. Blanchard
• Tom Tyler as Luke Plummer
• Yakima Canutt as Cavalry scout
• Awards and honors

Winner

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell)
• Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring (Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken)
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Director (John Ford)

Nominated

• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Academy Award for Directing (John Ford)
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Alexander Toluboff)
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography-Black-and-White (Bert Glennon)
• Academy Award for Film Editing (Otho Lovering & Dorothy Spencer)