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{{quote|''Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from''.|The Ringo Kid ([[John Wayne]])}}
'''''Stagecoach''''' is a classic 1939 [[The Western|Western]] directed by
The film was [[The Remake|remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, [[Bing Crosby]] as Doc Boone, [[The Longest Day|Red Buttons]] as Peacock, [[The Girl
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▲The film was [[The Remake|remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, [[Bing Crosby]] as Doc Boone, [[The Longest Day|Red Buttons]] as Peacock, [[The Girl From UNCLE (TV)|Stephanie Powers]] as Mrs. Mallory, Mike Connors as Hatfield, Robert Cummings as Gatewood, Van Heflin as Curley, [[Dr. Strangelove|Slim]] [[Blazing Saddles|Pickens]] as Buck, and Ann-Margret as Dallas. Despite an improved script (the Gatewood subplot is particularly satisfyingly tied in to the Ringo plot, with [[The Great Race|Keenan]] [[Santa Claus Is Comin to Town|Wynn]]'s delightfully nasty Luke Plummer being fatally hired by the defaulting banker) and a remarkably strong showing by Crosby, the film is killed dead by a leaden performance by Cord. Ultimately the most memorable aspects of this remake are the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUlPqXDnE0 portraits done of the cast in-character] by [[Norman Rockwell]].
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The movie draws inspiration from "Boule de Suif", a short story by [[Guy
▲* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The movie draws inspiration from "Boule de Suif", a short story by [[Guy De Maupassant (Creator)|Guy De Maupassant]]. The story is a social critique of French passengers trying to flee a hot spot in the French-Prussian War, and where one of the passengers (a [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold|jovial well-meaning prostitute]]) is forced to have sex with a Prussian officer to help the coach passengers escape. The movie changes the setting, removes the degradation of the prostitute, but leaves the social critique pretty much intact (with a karmic punishment for the crooked banker).
** A more direct source of the movie was "The Stage to Lordsburg" by Ernest Haycox, which had a "bare-bones plot". Ford merged it with de Maupassant's story to add more characterization.
* [[The Alcoholic]]: Thomas Mitchell earned his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for being convincingly alcoholic as Doc Boone. By movie's end - having proved himself a good doctor - he's hinting at cutting back on the whiskey...
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* [[The Cavalry]]
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Gatewood
* [[Dead Man's Hand]]: Luke holds this hand. He is shortly
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Wilcox and the Ringo Kid
* [[The Gambler]]: Hatfield again
* [[Hooker
* [[Jerkass]]: Gatewood
* [[Revenge]]: The Kid's motivation to get to Lordsburg.
* [[Running Gag]]: No one can seem to remember Mr. Peacock's name.
* [[The Savage Indian]]: Local Navajo Indians were enlisted to play the part of the bloodthirsty Apaches.
* [[Sour Prudes]]: The women who hate [[Hooker
* [[Southern Gentleman]]: Hatfield. He's more gambler than gentleman, though.
* [[Standard Snippet]]: Par for the course in a John Ford movie, but probably used more here than in any other. By one count, the score uses seventeen folk and popular songs from the era, some as [[Leitmotif|leitmotifs]], for instance ''I Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair'' for Mrs. Malory.
* [[The Trope Kid]]: The Ringo Kid
* [[US Marshal]]: Wilcox
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