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    Stagecoach (1966)

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    In 1939, director John Ford took a story by Ernest Haycox and turned it into one of the great Westerns – perhaps the best ever made.

    This new Stagecoach still tells the same fascinating story of a group of people travelling in a stagecoach – a journey punctuated by Indian attacks, a run-in with a family of outlaws and the birth of a baby.

    The group includes a drunken doctor, a bar girl who’s been thrown out of town, a professional gambler, a travelling liquor salesman, a banker who has decided to embezzle money, a gunslinger out for revenge and a young woman going to join her army captain husband.

    Director Gordon Douglas replaces the dusty Arizona plains of the original with the more spectacular Colorado mountains, and he peoples his stagecoach with a cast which is both better and worse than those travelling in Ford’s vehicle.

    Notably, that is true of Bing Crosby, uncharacteristically cast as the drunken doctor here in his last major film. He is better than Thomas Mitchell was.

    Sadly, Alex Cord is no John Wayne. Famous American artist Norman Rockwell has his first and only film role as one of the townsmen.

    Stagecoach was remade again in 1986 with country music legends Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

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    Henry Gatewood
    Robert Cummings
    Marshal Curly Wilcox
    Van Heflin
    Buck (stagecoach driver)
    Slim Pickens
    Mrs Lucy Mallory
    Stefanie Powers
    Luke Plummer
    Keenan Wynn
    Matt Plummer
    Brad Weston
    Ike Plummer
    Ned Wynn
    Lt. Blanchard
    Joseph Hoover
    Capt. Jim Mallory
    John Gabriel
    Mr Haines
    Oliver McGowan
    Billy Pickett
    David Humphreys Miller
    Dancing Trooper
    Bruce Mars
    Drunken Sergeant
    Brett Pearson
    Mrs Ellouise Gatewood
    Muriel Davidson
    Townsman
    Norman Rockwell
    Sergeant Major
    Edwin Mills
    Bartender
    Hal Lynch

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    Gordon Douglas

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