A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Impossible to overstate the influence of Ford's magnificent film, generally considered to be the first modern Western.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
John Ford has swept aside ten years of artifice and talkie compromise and has made a motion picture that sings a song of camera.
– Frank S. Nugent,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
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Seen today, Stagecoach may not seem very original. That's because it influenced countless later movies in which a mixed bag of characters are thrown together by chance and forced to survive an ordeal.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
24 Nov 2011
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Directorially, production is John Ford in peak form, sustaining interest and suspense throughout, and presenting exceptional characterizations. Picture is a display of photographic grandeur.