Review of Stagecoach (1939) by Ivan D — 28 Jun 2010
Monument Valley. John Wayne. Western. "Stagecoach" has elevated those three certainly unknown corners of cinema(westerns were nothing but disposable entertainment at the time) into something akin to "definitive".
Some film fans today would drool just thinking of those three being combined, especially being John Ford the one to bring it to fruition. Motion pictures have gone on for more than 70 years since the release of this picture, and only a handful of filmmakers would not say that "Stagecoach" has not enhanced their inspirations in some ways.
Even the great Orson Welles got some for his "Citizen Kane". Apart from it being a technical display of filmmaking prowess, it has also able to heighten the genre's maturity towards the human characters, and the social reality realized during the times of the wild west.
"Stagecoach" is a film not bothered by time, and looking at its climactic action sequence, it is clearly impervious of aging, unlike other pictures of that era that is nothing more than a testament of the old ways.
No one would have thought that a trash genre such as the western would reach the realms of cinematic art, but the making of "Stagecoach" proved that it certainly can.
This review of Stagecoach (1939) was written by Ivan D on 28 Jun 2010.
Stagecoach has generally received very positive reviews.
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