History Film / Stagecoach

The film was [[TheRemake remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Music/BingCrosby as Doc Boone, Creator/RedButtons as Peacock, [[Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE Stephanie Powers]] as Mrs. Mallory, Creator/MikeConnors as Hatfield, Creator/BobCummings as Gatewood, Van Heflin as Curley, Creator/SlimPickens as Buck, and Creator/AnnMargret as Dallas. Ultimately the most memorable aspects of this remake are the in-character portraits of the main cast done by Creator/NormanRockwell, used for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUlPqXDnE0 closing credits]] and poster art. (Rockwell also had a brief [[TheCameo cameo]] in the film itself as a poker player.)

The film was [[TheRemake remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Music/BingCrosby as Doc Boone, Creator/RedButtons as Peacock, [[Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE Stephanie Powers]] as Mrs. Mallory, Creator/MikeConnors as Hatfield, Creator/BobCummings as Gatewood, Van Heflin as Curley, Creator/SlimPickens as Buck, and Creator/AnnMargret as Dallas. Ultimately the most memorable aspects of this remake are the in-character portraits of the main cast done by Creator/NormanRockwell, used for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUlPqXDnE0 closing credits]] and poster art. (Rockwell also had a brief {{cameo}} in the film itself as a poker player.)

The film was [[TheRemake remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Music/BingCrosby as Doc Boone, [[Film/TheLongestDay Red Buttons]] as Peacock, [[Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE Stephanie Powers]] as Mrs. Mallory, Creator/MikeConnors as Hatfield, Robert Cummings as Gatewood, Van Heflin as Curley, [[Film/DrStrangelove Slim]] [[Film/BlazingSaddles Pickens]] as Buck, and Creator/AnnMargret as Dallas. Despite an improved script (the Gatewood subplot is particularly satisfyingly tied in to the Ringo plot, with [[Film/TheGreatRace Keenan]] [[WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown 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 Cord's leaden performance. Ultimately the most memorable aspects of this remake are the in-character portraits of the main cast done by Creator/NormanRockwell, used for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUlPqXDnE0 closing credits]] and poster art. (Rockwell also had a brief {{cameo}} in the film itself as a poker player.)

Set in 1880, the story involves a disparate group of strangers -- including prostitute Dallas (Claire Trevor), alcoholic Doc Boone (Creator/ThomasMitchell), Southern gambler Hatfield (Creator/JohnCarradine), pregnant army wife Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), marshal Curley Wilcox (George Bancroft), escaped outlaw the Ringo Kid (Wayne), and others -- who all wind up traveling on the same stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. Besides having their own secrets, burdens, and crimes to deal with, the passengers have to worry about Geronimo and the Apaches, who are on the warpath.

* ShooOutTheClowns: Things turn serious for the stagecoach passengers during the ChaseFight when [[PluckyComicRelief Buck]] the driver is wounded by the Apaches, causing him to drop the reins and forcing Ringo to climb onto the horses to drive the horses himself. Then everyone runs out of bullets...

-->"If you see the Major, tell him about your son. Tell him I'm-"

The film was [[TheRemake remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Music/BingCrosby as Doc Boone, [[Film/TheLongestDay Red Buttons]] as Peacock, [[Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE Stephanie Powers]] as Mrs. Mallory, Mike Connors as Hatfield, Robert Cummings as Gatewood, Van Heflin as Curley, [[Film/DrStrangelove Slim]] [[Film/BlazingSaddles Pickens]] as Buck, and Creator/AnnMargret as Dallas. Despite an improved script (the Gatewood subplot is particularly satisfyingly tied in to the Ringo plot, with [[Film/TheGreatRace Keenan]] [[WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown 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 Cord's leaden performance. Ultimately the most memorable aspects of this remake are the in-character portraits of the main cast done by Creator/NormanRockwell, used for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUlPqXDnE0 closing credits]] and poster art. (Rockwell also had a brief {{cameo}} in the film itself as a poker player.)

* TheAlcoholic: 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...

* BigBadEnsemble: Geronimo, the leader of the Apaches who is responsible for much of the danger the party faces, and the Plummer Brothers, the gang of killers and archenemies of the the Ringo Kid.

* JerkAss: Gatewood is obnoxious to everyone.

* RunningGag: No one can seem to remember Mr. Peacock's name.

The film was [[TheRemake remade]] in 1966 by director Gavin Douglas, with Alex Cord replacing Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Music/BingCrosby as Doc Boone, [[Film/TheLongestDay Red Buttons]] as Peacock, [[Series/TheGirlFromUNCLE Stephanie Powers]] as Mrs. Mallory, Mike Connors as Hatfield, Robert Cummings as Gatewood, Van Heflin as Curley, [[Film/DrStrangelove Slim]] [[Film/BlazingSaddles 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 [[Film/TheGreatRace Keenan]] [[WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown 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 Cord's leaden performance. Ultimately the most memorable aspects of this remake are the in-character portraits of the main cast done by Creator/NormanRockwell, used for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUlPqXDnE0 closing credits]] and poster art. (Rockwell also had a brief {{cameo}} in the film itself as a poker player.)