Movie
Stagecoach
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1939-03-02
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Western
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Walter Wanger Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Claire Trevor as Dallas
- John Wayne as The Ringo Kid
- George Bancroft as Marshal Curly Wilcox
- Andy Devine as Buck
- Thomas Mitchell as Doc Josiah Boone
- John Carradine as Hatfield
- Donald Meek as Samuel Peacock
- Berton Churchill as Ellsworth H. Gatewood
- Louise Platt as Lucy Mallory
- Tim Holt as Lt. Blanchard
- Tom Tyler as Luke Plummer
- Chief John Big Tree as Indian Scout (uncredited)
Crew
- John Ford - Director
- Dudley Nichols - Screenplay
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