Stagecoach is a movie directed by John Ford in 1939 and based on the book of the same name by Ernest Haycox, first published in 1937. The movie features John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, George Bancroft, Donald Meek, and others.
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Storyline
In June 1880, a group of strangers boards the stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory, to Lordsburg, New Mexico. pregnant Lucy Mallory, who is travelling to join her cavalry officer husband; When the stage driver, Buck, looks for his shotgun guard, Marshal Curley Wilcox tells him that the guard is off searching for a fugitive.
Movie vs Book
Year
1939
Minutes
96
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
Year
1937
Pages
256
Book Rate
7.48
S: Goodreads
Book
Stage to Lordsburg
Subtitle: Stagecoach
Author: Ernest Haycox
Country: USA
First published in: 1937
Length: 256 pages
Genre: Fiction
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“The job of the screenplay is to extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen maintaining its essence.”
BARRY EISLER (Writer)
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