
Regarded by many as the best Western ever made STAGECOACH shot John Wayne to stardom & elevated the prestige of a genre that had hitherto been considered a B-movie province With rumours in the air of a possible Apache attack a motley group of travellers in a small New Mexico town board the Overland Stage bound for Lordsburg Among them are the pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt); timid liquor salesman Peacock (Donald Meek); Hatfield an aloof gambler (John Carradine); Gatewood (Berton Churchill) a pompous embezzling banker; & two who have been exiled from town alcoholic Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell) & Dallas (Clair Trevor) a lady of the evening Along the trail they pick up the Ringo Kid (John Wayne) an outlaw who's escaped from prison to take revenge on the Plummer brothers for destroying his family & framing him for murder As their journey progresses the hypocrisy of the supposedly respectable passengers becomes clear & it's the tainted outsiders who display courage & humanity Described by Orson Welles who watched the film innumerable times before making CITIZEN KANE as his cinematic textbook STAGECOACH is superbly made in every respect layering humour & sharp characterisation into an exciting plot that
Includes:: a spectacularly photographed chase in Monument Valley