Genre: Western
Year of production: 1939
Nacionality: U.S.
Direction: John Ford.
Script: Dudley Nichols, based on the novel by Ernest Haycox, The stage to Lordsburg.
Photography: Bert Glennon.
Music: Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, Louis Gruenberg, Leo Shuken and John Leipold.
Production company: United Artists.
Length: 97 minutes.
Actors: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, George Brancroft, Andy Devine and Donald Meek.
Synopsis: A stage carrying people of different social classes and personalities leaves a town called Tonto and heads for Lordsburg, driven by Buck (Andy Devine) and watched over by Curly Wilcox (George Brancroft), the sheriff of Tonto. Along the way Wilcox hopes to come across the fugitive Ringo Kid (John Wayne), who happens to have suffered an accident and lost his horse. He stops the stage and gets on it to travel to Lordsburg and avenge the death of his brother. On the stage he meets Dallas (Claire Trevor), a pretty girl, and between them a strong attraction emerges. The stage is attacked by Apache Indians, one of several setbacks to befall the travelers.
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