STAGECOACH1939
Stagecoach
Movie Rating
MOVIE RATING
Average Rating: 4.0 (out of 5) (109 votes cast)
Source of Film
SOURCE OF FILM
Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) was a U.S. Army veteran who had been posted along the Mexican border and served in Europe during World War I before becoming a pulp fiction writer in the early 1920s. He wrote more than 300 short stories and during the 1930s was a frequent contributor to Collier's Weekly.
Dudley Nichols (1895-1960), a veteran screenwriter and frequent collaborator with director John Ford, turned Haycox's story into a script. He holds an Academy Award footnote as being the first artist to refuse an Oscar - for The Informer (1935) - because the Screen Writers Guild was on strike at the time.
Producer Detail
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR DETAIL
- John Ford
- Universal Film Manufacturing
- (1914-1915)
- Rex Motion Pictures
- (1916)
- Bison Motion Pictures
- (1917)
- Universal Film Manufacturing
- (1917-1920)
- Fox Film
- (1920-1935)
- 20th Century-Fox
- (1935-1942), (1945-1952)
- U.S. Naval Reserve
- (1942-1945)
- various
- (1953-1976)
Film Run-time and Synopsis
RUNTIME & SYNOPSIS
1 hour, 36 minutes
Director John Ford teams up with John Wayne in this break-out Western that redefined the genre. Eight travelers must make it together across Apache indian territory.
Film Comments
FILM COMMENTS
Film Awards
FILM AWARDS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
OSCAR NOMINEE
WINNER
Outstanding Production- Walter Wanger Productions
- Directing
- John Ford
- Supporting Actor
- Thomas Mitchell
- Art Direction
- Alexander Toluboff
- Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- Bert Glennon
- Film Editing
- Otho Lovering
- Dorothy Spencer
- Music (Scoring)
- Richard Hageman
- W. Franke Harling
- John Leipold
- Leo Shuken
MPAA Rating
MPAA RATING
No rating
Box Office Ranking
BOX OFFICE RANKING
- 1939 Domestic Box Office Rank: #30[1]
Theatrical Revenues
GROSS
- (Adjusted Gross in $millions)
- Domestic Theatrical Release: $159[1]
Original Film Distributor
DISTRIBUTOR
Location Filming
LOCATION
- Goulding's Trading Post, Utah
Sources
SOURCES
Film Run-time and Synopsis
RUNTIME & SYNOPSIS
1 hour, 36 minutes
Director John Ford teams up with John Wayne in this break-out Western that redefined the genre. Eight travelers must make it together across Apache indian territory.
Film Comments
FILM COMMENTS
Stagecoach was Ford's first non-silent western.
Film Awards
FILM AWARDS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
OSCAR NOMINEE
WINNER- Outstanding Production
- Walter Wanger Productions
- Directing
- John Ford
- Supporting Actor
- Thomas Mitchell
- Art Direction
- Alexander Toluboff
- Cinematography (Black-and-White)
- Bert Glennon
- Film Editing
- Otho Lovering
- Dorothy Spencer
- Music (Scoring)
- Richard Hageman
- W. Franke Harling
- John Leipold
- Leo Shuken
MPAA Rating
MPAA RATING
No rating
Box Office Ranking
BOX OFFICE RANKING
- 1939 Domestic Box Office Rank: #30[1]
Theatrical Revenues
GROSS
- (Adjusted Gross in $millions)
- Domestic Theatrical Release: $159[1]
Original Film Distributor
DISTRIBUTOR
Location Filming
LOCATION
- Goulding's Trading Post, Utah
Stagecoach was Ford's first non-silent western.