Stagecoach (1966 film)
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Theatrical poster design by Norman Rockwell
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| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Produced by | Martin Rackin |
| Written by | Screenplay by Joseph Landon Based on a screenplay by Dudley Nichols From a story by Ernest Haycox |
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Ann-Margret Red Buttons Michael Connors Alex Cord Bing Crosby Bob Cummings Van Heflin Slim Pickens Stefanie Powers Keenan Wynn |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | William H. Clothier A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Hugh S. Fowler, A.C.E. |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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115 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million |
| Box office | $4 million (US/ Canada) |
Stagecoach is a 1966 American film, directed by Gordon Douglas between July and September 1965, as a color remake of the Academy Award-winning John Ford 1939 classic black-and-white western Stagecoach. Unlike the original version which listed its ten leading players in order of importance, the major stars are billed in alphabetical order.
In 1880, a group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. The travellers seem ordinary, but many have secrets that they are running from. Among them are Dallas, a prostitute who is being driven out of town; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone; pregnant Lucy Mallory who is meeting her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock. As the stage sets out, U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Blanchard announces that Geronimo and his Apaches are on the warpath; his small troop will provide an escort to Dry Fork.
Also in the cast, playing their sole credited film roles, were two artists, 15th-billed David Humphreys Miller, a 47-year-old western historian who specialized in the culture of the northern Plains Indians and created, among his works, 72 portraits of the survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and 20th-billed Norman Rockwell, 71 years old, who was engaged to be on the set in order to paint the portraits of the stars and assigned the small role of a town poker player nicknamed Busted Flush. The film's closing-credits sequence features the full-screen inscription, THE CAST AS PAINTED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL, followed by images of each of the ten leading players in the same order as in the opening credits. The portraits were also used in the poster for the film.
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