"feature the aces and eights hand as a foreshadowing of death. In ""Stagecoach"" (1939), the hand is held by Luke Plummer (Tom Tyler), soon to be shot by the Ringo Kid (John Wayne). In ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), Liberty Valance draws the hand just prior to his death. In Anthony Mann's film ""Winchester '73"", ""Dutch"" Henry lays down a full house, aces over eights, stating that he just missed a ""dead man's hand."" In the 1941 Western ""The Badlands of Dakota"", Wild Bill Hickok, played by Richard Dix, is shown to be holding the aces and eights"
"Stagecoach (1939 film) Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols, is an adaptation of ""The Stage to Lordsburg"", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory. ""Stagecoach"" was the first of many Westerns that Ford shot using Monument Valley, in the American Southwest on the Arizona–Utah border, as a location, many of which also starred John Wayne. Scenes from ""Stagecoach"", including a famous sequence introducing"
"Streaming audio Stagecoach (1939 film) Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols, is an adaptation of ""The Stage to Lordsburg"", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory. ""Stagecoach"" was the first of many Westerns that Ford shot using Monument Valley, in the American Southwest on the Arizona–Utah border, as a location, many of which also starred John Wayne. Scenes from ""Stagecoach"", including a famous"
"Corporation, he appeared mostly in small bit parts. His first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's Western ""The Big Trail"" (1930), an early widescreen film epic which was a box-office failure. Only leading roles in numerous B movies followed during the 1930s, most of them also Westerns. Wayne's career was rejuvenated with John Ford's ""Stagecoach"" (1939) making him an instant mainstream star. He starred in 142 motion pictures altogether, including the dozens with his name above the title produced before 1939. Biographer Ronald Davis said, ""John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage. Eighty-three of his movies were Westerns,"
"title was a play on the Dumas classic. He was mentored by stuntmen in riding and other Western skills. Stuntman Yakima Canutt and Wayne developed and perfected stunts and onscreen fisticuffs techniques which are still in use. Wayne's breakthrough role came with John Ford's ""Stagecoach"" (1939). Because of Wayne's B-movie status and track record in low-budget Westerns throughout the 1930s, Ford had difficulty getting financing for what was to be an A-budget film. After rejection by all the major studios, Ford struck a deal with independent producer Walter Wanger in which Claire Trevor—a much bigger star at the time—received top"
"be a record by appearing in 34 in 1932 alone."" In more than 125 films, Churchill worked for some of the great directors such as Otto Preminger, John Ford, and Frank Capra. As well, he performed with many of the most famous stars of the day, such as Bette Davis (""The Cabin in the Cotton""), Jeanette MacDonald, Tyrone Power, Edward G. Robinson, and Will Rogers. Churchill is perhaps best known for his role as Gatewood, the absconding banker in John Ford's highly acclaimed 1939 film ""Stagecoach"", starring John Wayne. In 1925, Churchill helped found the Masquers club that led to"
"Stagecoach (1966 film) Stagecoach is a 1966 American film, directed by Gordon Douglas between July and September 1965, as a color remake of the Academy Award-winning John Ford 1939 classic black-and-white western ""Stagecoach"". Unlike the original version which listed its ten leading players in order of importance, the major stars are billed in alphabetical order. In 1880, a group of strangers in Wyoming Territory boards the east-bound stagecoach from Dry Fork to Cheyenne. The travellers seem ordinary, but many have secrets that they are running from. Among them are Dallas, a prostitute who is being driven out of town; an"
"shot at another of Ford's favorite filming locations, the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif., where he had filmed much of ""Wee Willie Winkie"" two years earlier. Ford skillfully blended Iverson and Monument Valley to create the movie's iconic images of the American West. John Wayne had good reason to be grateful for Ford's support; ""Stagecoach"" provided the actor with the career breakthrough that elevated him to international stardom. Over 35 years Wayne appeared in 24 of Ford's films and three television episodes. Ford is credited with playing a major role in shaping Wayne's screen image. Cast member Louise Platt,"
"in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford saying of Wayne's future in film: ""He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman.'"" ""Stagecoach"" marked the beginning of the most consistently successful phase of Ford's career—in just two years between 1939 and 1941 he created a string of classics films that won numerous Academy Awards. Ford's next film, the biopic ""Young Mr Lincoln"" (1939) starring Henry Fonda, was less successful than ""Stagecoach"", attracting little critical attention and winning no awards. It was not a major box-office hit although it had a respectable domestic"
"for the stage to arrive. His professionalism, and that of Heflin and Crosby, are some consolation"". Stagecoach (1966 film) Stagecoach is a 1966 American film, directed by Gordon Douglas between July and September 1965, as a color remake of the Academy Award-winning John Ford 1939 classic black-and-white western ""Stagecoach"". Unlike the original version which listed its ten leading players in order of importance, the major stars are billed in alphabetical order. In 1880, a group of strangers in Wyoming Territory boards the east-bound stagecoach from Dry Fork to Cheyenne. The travellers seem ordinary, but many have secrets that they are"
"Monogram, and Republic. Wayne kept on friendly terms with John Ford who, as a result, gave Wayne a career boost with ""Stagecoach"" (1939). John Wayne had achieved stardom in motion pictures by 1941 and, by the end of the decade, was one of the cinema's top ten box office attractions. During the latter half of the 1940s Wayne starred in what many film fans and critics regard as being among his finest work, notably the ""cavalry trilogy"" ""(Fort Apache"", ""She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"", and ""Rio Grande)"" for director John Ford, ""3 Godfathers"", also for Ford, and ""Red River"" for"
"that influence. I want to thank everybody who is here from the Irish Academy, the John Ford family and thank you to John Ford Ireland."" Citations Archival materials Criticism Official sites |- ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Academy Awards ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Academy Awards ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | Academy Awards ! colspan=""3"" style=""background: #DAA520;"" | American Film Institute John Ford John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""The Searchers"" (1956), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), as well"
"chase and the hair-raising horse-jumping scene, performed by the stuntman Yakima Canutt. The Dudley Nichols–Ben Hecht screenplay was based on an Ernest Haycox story that Ford had spotted in ""Collier's"" magazine and he purchased the screen rights for just $2500. Production chief Walter Wanger urged Ford to hire Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich for the lead roles, but eventually accepted Ford's decision to cast Claire Trevor as Dallas and a virtual unknown, his friend John Wayne, as Ringo; Wanger reportedly had little further influence over the production. In making ""Stagecoach"", Ford faced entrenched industry prejudice about the now-hackneyed genre which"
"and Wayne collaborated during their lengthy careers. The film was financed on a larger budget than Republic normally provided. It was a similar scale to a successful historical drama they had made the year before, ""Man of Conquest"". Walter Pidgeon was borrowed from MGM. Filming started November 1939. It was the second film John Wayne made with Claire Trevor after ""Stagecoach"", the other being ""Allegheny Uprising"" (1939). Roy Rogers was given a key support role. The film had its premiere in Lawrence, Kansas. The movie received good reviews and box office, and encouraged Republic to continue to allocate more money"
"John Ford John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He is renowned both for Westerns such as ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""The Searchers"" (1956), and ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" (1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th-century American novels such as the film ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1940). His four Academy Awards for Best Director (in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952) remain a record. One of the films for which he won the award, ""How Green Was My Valley"", also won Best Picture. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford"
"billing. ""Stagecoach"" was a huge critical and financial success, and Wayne became a mainstream star. Cast member Louise Platt credited Ford as saying at the time that Wayne would become the biggest star ever because of his appeal as the archetypal ""everyman"". America's entry into World War II resulted in a deluge of support for the war effort from all sectors of society, and Hollywood was no exception. Wayne was exempted from service due to his age (34 at the time of Pearl Harbor) and family status (classified as 3-A – family deferment) although actor Henry Fonda, born two years"
"working for other studios, starting with ""Arrowsmith"" for Samuel Goldwyn. In 1934, he began a lengthy association with producer Merian C. Cooper at RKO Radio Pictures. The following year he directed ""The Informer"", which brought him his first Academy Award for Best Director and the Best Actor Award for its star, Victor McLaglen. In 1939, Ford began to make a series of outstanding films starting with ""Stagecoach"", which made John Wayne a major star and brought an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor to Thomas Mitchell. It was also the first time Ford filmed in Monument Valley. That same year"
"and filmed at Jackson Hole, Wyoming and in the Mojave Desert. It would be thirteen years before he made his next Western, ""Stagecoach"", in 1939. During the 1920s, Ford also served as president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America. Ford was one of the pioneer directors of sound films; he shot Fox's first song sung on screen, for his film ""Mother Machree"" (1928) of which only four of the original seven reels survive; this film is also notable as the first Ford film to feature the young John Wayne (as an uncredited"
"and retribution, which is often dispensed through a shootout or quick-draw duel. The Western was the most popular Hollywood genre from the early 20th century to the 1960s. Western films first became well-attended in the 1930s. John Ford's landmark Western adventure ""Stagecoach"" became one of the biggest hits in 1939 and it made John Wayne a mainstream screen star. Westerns were very popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the most acclaimed Westerns were released during this time, including ""High Noon"" (1952), ""Shane"" (1953), ""The Searchers"" (1956), and ""The Wild Bunch"" (1969). Classic Westerns such as these have been"
"Power, ""Union Pacific"" with Joel McCrea, ""Destry Rides Again"" featuring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, and the release of John Ford's landmark Western adventure ""Stagecoach"", which became one of the biggest hits of the year. Released through United Artists, ""Stagecoach"" made John Wayne a mainstream screen star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns. Wayne had been introduced to the screen ten years earlier as the leading man in director Raoul Walsh's widescreen ""The Big Trail"", which failed at the box office, due in part to exhibitors' inability to switch over to widescreen during the Depression. After"
"coach driver, Buck, initially portrayed by third-billed Andy Devine, while ninth place falls to Stefanie Powers as the pregnant Army wife, Lucy Mallory, played in 1939 by the 6th-billed Louise Platt. At the end of the alphabetical cast, Keenan Wynn, in tenth place, is Luke Plummer, the patriarch of a family of killers, portrayed in 1939 by western star Tom Tyler, billed 11th in the end credits. Finally, 12th-billed supporting player Joseph Hoover portrays the Lieutenant, a character originated by Tim Holt, who was listed 10th in the 1939 credits. ""Variety"" summed it up as: ""New version of “Stagecoach” is"
"he both performed stunts and had a minor role in the Claire Trevor-John Wayne classic ""Stagecoach"", and in 1940 he appeared, uncredited, again with John Wayne in ""The Man from Dakota"", in which he also performed stunts. Throughout the 1940s he both appeared in or performed stunts in 32 films, most notably alongside Randolph Scott and Lloyd Bridges in ""Abilene Town"". During World War II he interrupted his film career by enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard. In the 1950s, he appeared in sixty-five episodes as an unnamed townsman on the ABC/Desilu television series, ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt"
"(1930) and ""Stagecoach"" (1939). The Trail Beyond The Trail Beyond is a 1934 Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, Noah Beery Sr., and Noah Beery Jr. The motion picture was based on the novel ""The Wolf Hunters"" by James Oliver Curwood, which was also adapted as a silent film (1926) and a later sound film (1949), both called ""The Wolf Hunters"". Stunning location backgrounds filmed around Mammoth Lakes, California, set this film firmly apart from most of the other Poverty Row westerns shot during the decade in which Wayne found himself trapped between his screen"
"Great Stagecoach Robbery Great Stagecoach Robbery is a 1945 American film directed by Howard Bretherton starring Wild Bill Elliott in the role of Red Ryder and costarring as Little Beaver, actor ""(Bobby)"" Robert Blake. It was the sixth of twenty-three Red Ryder feature films that would be produced by Republic Pictures. The picture was shot on the studio’s back lot along with outdoor locations at Iverson Ranch, 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, CA, USA. In the 1890s town of Blue Springs, Jed Quinlan ""(Don Costello)"", the schoolteacher, breaks up a fight between tomboy Boots Hollister ""(Sylvia Arslan)"" and Little"
"stars in the leads, as well as Liz Ashley and Anthony Newley. It was so awful, it made this movie look good by comparison"". Later in its write-up, ""The Guide"" opines that ""[W]hereas the original had engaging characters and not all that much violence, this one concentrates on bloodletting, the dialog is a failed attempt to be 'adult', and the performances are generally substandard. Norman Rockwell appears briefly. He'd done the excellent portraits of the actors used with the end credit and they rewarded him with a role in the picture, his first and only. Wayne Newton sings 'Stagecoach to"
"sung at the beginning and end of the film by Frankie Laine. He recorded it for Columbia Records in 1957 (with the Jimmy Carroll Orchestra) and in 1960 (with the Johnny Williams Orchestra). It was also recorded by Sandy Denny in 1967. The film was , directed by James Mangold and starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. In the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, rancher Dan Evans (Van Heflin) and his young sons witness a stagecoach holdup. The boys want to try to intervene, but their father warns them that it would be useless to act when they are so"
"November, 2006 features directors Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, and Martin Scorsese, who suggest that the string of classic films Ford directed during 1936 to 1941 was due in part to an intense six-month extra-marital affair with Katharine Hepburn, the star of ""Mary of Scotland"" (1936), an Elizabethan costume drama. ""Stagecoach"" (1939) was Ford's first western since ""3 Bad Men"" in 1926, and it was his first with sound. Reputedly Orson Welles watched ""Stagecoach"" forty times in preparation for making ""Citizen Kane"". It remains one of the most admired and imitated of all Hollywood movies, not least for its climactic stagecoach"
"the time of its release. The series was the only one of its kind to be specifically named and ranked in contemporary polls of the top western film stars. For example, from 1937 to the end of the series in 1943, The ""Motion Picture Herald"" consistently ranked the series in its top ten, reaching a peak of 5th place in 1938, when a pre-""Stagecoach"" John Wayne was the series lead. The success of the series led to many ""trigger trio"" imitators at other studios. The first was ""The Range Busters"" (1940–43) from Monogram Pictures which starred original Mesquiteer Ray ""Crash"""
"Andy Devine Andrew Vabre Devine (October 7, 1905 – February 18, 1977) was an American character actor known for his distinctive raspy, crackly voice and roles in Western films. He is probably best remembered for his role as Cookie, the sidekick of Roy Rogers in 10 feature films. He also appeared alongside John Wayne in films like ""Stagecoach"" (1939), ""The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"" and ""How the West Was Won"" (both 1962). He is also remembered as Jingles on the TV series ""The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok"" from 1951 to 1958, as Danny McGuire in ""A Star Is"
"point"". Walsh said that he initially saw Wayne, then a prop man, moving heavy furniture as though it were light as a feather, then decided to test him for the part. Almost a decade later, Ford began saying that he himself had discovered Wayne as a prop man when casting ""Stagecoach"" (1939), even though Wayne had played the lead in dozens of movies by then throughout the 1930s. Ford stuck to this obviously false story in interviews for the rest of his life. Filming on ""The Big Trail"" began on-location just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico in April 1930, which"
"Stagecoach West (TV series) Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series that ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry (played by Wayne Rogers) and Simon Kane (Robert Bray) operate the Timberland Stage Line from fictitious Outpost, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Simon's 15-year-old son, David ""Davey"" Kane (played by Richard Eyer), joins the two as they face stagecoach robbers, murderers, inclement weather, and human interest stories. Perry and Kane, who are both deputy U.S. marshals, had been on opposite sides of the American Civil War; Kane,"
"followed by other scenes), in the brief role of assistant coach to Pat O'Brien's title character, is another unbilled player — Ward Bond — who, between 1929 and 1959, appeared with Wayne in 24 films. College Coach College Coach (UK title Football Coach) is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak. The film features John Wayne in his last bit-part role. Calvert College begins taking football more seriously, over the objections of Dr. Sargeant, the president of the school. Coach Gore is brought in and given a free rein, which he uses to pay money"
"the film received generally good reviews and was successful at the box office, earning $2 million in rentals. The film was Wayne's second of a six-picture contract with RKO and the first with the producer Robert Fellows, with whom Wayne later formed a production company. A tough quiet cowboy named Rocklin (John Wayne) boards a stagecoach headed for the Arizona town of Santa Inez in the late 1800s. He takes a seat alongside the old cantankerous driver, Dave (George ""Gabby"" Hayes), who enjoys giving his two women passengers—overbearing Miss Elizabeth Martin (Elisabeth Risdon) and her kindhearted niece Clara Cardell (Audrey"