IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by John Ford. Starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, and John Carradine.
(Very mild spoilers.)
Wow, Stagecoach focuses its story on ALL the wrong characters. I do not care even a tiny bit about John Wayne's escape from prison or chasing down the murderers of his family. The three women in this movie (and MOST OF ALL the Apache woman who disappears halfway through the movie) are all ten thousand times more interesting than any of the male characters, whose stories have been told in umpteen narratives aleady. They keep almost acting like they're going to tell you more about the others, but then at the last minute they pull back and just turn it into, "John Wayne saves the day." Meh.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Stagecoach < Four Weddings and a Funeral
Stagecoach > Waltz with Bashir
Stagecoach < Luther
Stagecoach > Kinsey
Stagecoach < Marathon Man
Stagecoach < Reality Bites
Stagecoach > The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Stagecoach > Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...
Stagecoach > The ButterCream Gang
Stagecoach > In the Line of Fire
Stagecoach > Davy Crockett and the River Pirates
Final spot: #1825 out of 2716.
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