Stagecoach (Blu-ray)

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
Video: Black & White
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Released: May 25, 2010
Originally Released: 1939
Label: Criterion
Note: New restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompresses monaurak soundtrack

Audio commentary by western authority Jim Kitses (Horizons West)
Bucking Broadway, a 1917 silent feature by John Ford, with new nes music composed and performed by Donald Sosin
Journalist and television presenter Philip Jenkinson's extensive 1968 video interview with Ford
New video appreciation of Stagecoach with director and Ford biographer Peter Bogdanovich
New video interview with Ford's grandon Dan Ford about the director and his home movies
New video piece, featuring journalist Buss Bissinger, about trader Harry Goulding's key role in bringing Monument Valley to Hollywood
New video homeage to legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt, with celebrated stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong
Video essay by writer Tag Gallagher analyzing Ford's visual styke in Stagecoach
Screen Director's Playhouse 1949 radio dramatization of Stagecoach, with John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and Ford
Theatrical trailer

Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.37

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft & John Carradine
Performer:		Donald Meek & Tim Holt
Directed by		John Ford
Edited by		Dorothy Spencer
Screenwriting by		Dudley Nichols
Composition by		Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, Boris Morros, Leo Shuken, John Leipold & Louis Gruenberg
Art Direction by		Alexander Toluboff
Story by		Ernest Haycox
Produced by		Walter Wanger
Director of Photography:		Bert Glennon

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1939 - Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken & Richard Hageman

Academy Awards 1939 - Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Mitchell

Entertainment Reviews:

Entertainment Weekly - 01/11/2002
"...[The story] feels nourishingly archetypal, especially John Wayne's turn as the outlaw Ringo Kid..."

Premiere - 12/01/2003
"...This is myth-making writ large, full of Ford's enduring themes, daring stunt work, and peerless eye for composition..."

USA Today - 01/06/2004
"[T]he DVD breathes life into Ford's character study of sundry stagecoach passenger types..."

Uncut - 12/01/2004
"[Wayne] sauntered into stardom after a decade in movies as the Ringo Kid, a charming outlaw bend on revenge."

New York Times - 04/30/2010
"[A] thrilling western about a group of travelers whose Arizona stage ride lands them smack in the midst of an apache uprising..."

A.V. Club - 05/26/2010
"STAGECOACH gives fine shading to a simple story, making it look and feel like a forgotten American myth." -- Grade: A

Entertainment Weekly - 06/04/2010
"Action-packed and jaw-droppingly epic, STAGECOACH is the perfect Western to show to people who don't like Westerns." -- Grade: A

Sight and Sound - 08/01/2010
"A classic as sharply defined and indelible as the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley, John Ford's 1939 Western is in every sense a landmark."

Empire - 09/01/2010
"[T]here's still a sophistication to STAGECOACH that goes well beyond its silent movie and stage melodrama roots....A small film but it casts a long shadow."

Product Description:

Regarded by many as the best Western ever made, STAGECOACH shot John Wayne to stardom and elevated the prestige of a genre that had hitherto been considered a B-movie province. With rumors in the air of a possible Apache attack, a motley group of travelers 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; and two who have been exiled from town, alcoholic Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell) and 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 and framing him for murder. As their journey progresses, the hypocrisy of the supposedly respectable passengers becomes clear, and it's the tainted outsiders who display courage and 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 humor and sharp characterization into an exciting plot that includes a spectacularly photographed chase in Monument Valley.

Plot Synopsis:

Under the stress of an Indian attack, the passengers of a stagecoach reveal their genuine personalities.

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Production Notes:

Filmed in: Monument Valley, Kayenta and Mesa, Arizona; Kernville, Dry Lake, Fremont Pass, Victorville, Calabasas, Chatsworth, California.
STAGECOACH was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1995.
Production Company: Masterpiece Productions Inc.