Stagecoach (1966)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Writers:

Ernest Haycox (story)
Dudley Nichols (1939 screenplay)
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Release Date:

15 June 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

These Were The Ten Who Fought Indians, Outlaws And Each Other As They Rode To Greatness On The Stagecoach To Cheyenne!

Plot:

A group of unlikely traveling companions find themselves on the same stagecoach to Cheyenne. They include a drunken doctor...

Plot Keywords:

Stagecoach | Outlaw | Beautiful Woman | Native American

Cast

Ann-Margret	...	Dallas
Red Buttons	...	Peacock
Mike Connors	...	Hatfield (as Michael Connors)
Alex Cord	...	Ringo Kid
Bing Crosby	...	Doc Josiah Boone
Robert Cummings	...	Henry Gatewood (as Bob Cummings)
Van Heflin	...	Marshal Curly Wilcox
Slim Pickens	...	Buck, Stagecoach Driver
Stefanie Powers	...	Mrs. Lucy Mallory
Keenan Wynn	...	Luke Plummer
Brad Weston	...	Matt Plummer
Joseph Hoover	...	Lt. Blanchard
John Gabriel	...	Capt. Jim Mallory
Oliver McGowan	...	Mr. Haines
David Humphreys Miller	...	Billy Pickett
Bruce Mars	...	Dancing Trooper
Brett Pearson	...	Drunken Sergeant
Muriel Davidson	...	Mrs. Ellouise Gatewood
Ned Wynn	...	Ike Plummer
Norman Rockwell	...	Townsman
Edwin Mills	...	Sergeant Major
Hal Lynch	...	Jerry the Bartender
The Westernaires
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Adler	...	Clem (uncredited)
Harry Carter	...	Poker Player (uncredited)
Walker Edmiston	...	Cheyenne Wells Fargo agent (uncredited)
Kam Tong	...	Waldo (uncredited)
Barbara Wilkin	...	Susan, Saloon girl (uncredited)

Directed by
Gordon Douglas

Writing credits
Ernest Haycox		(story "Stage to Lordsburg")
Dudley Nichols		(1939 screenplay)
Joseph Landon		(screenplay)

Produced by
Alvin G. Manuel	....	associate producer
Martin Rackin	....	producer

Original Music by
Jerry Goldsmith

Cinematography by
William H. Clothier		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Hugh S. Fowler

Art Direction by
Herman A. Blumenthal
Jack Martin Smith

Set Decoration by
Stuart A. Reiss
Walter M. Scott

Makeup Department
Margaret Donovan	....	supervising hair stylist
Sydney Guilaroff	....	hair stylist: Ann-Margaret
Ben Nye	....	makeup artist
Marvin G. Westmore	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Harry Caplan	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ray Kellogg	....	second unit director
Joseph E. Rickards	....	assistant director

Art Department
Dennis J. Parrish	....	assistant property master (uncredited)

Sound Department
Bernard Freericks	....	sound
Elmer Raguse	....	sound

Special Effects by
L.B. Abbott	....	special photographic effects
Emil Kosa Jr.	....	special photographic effects
Gerald Endler	....	mechanical effects (uncredited)

Stunts
Conrad Bachmann	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jerry Brown	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jim Burk	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jack Coffer	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bennie E. Dobbins	....	stunts (uncredited)
Tom Hennesy	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bob Herron	....	stunts (uncredited)
Dick Hudkins	....	stunts (uncredited)
John Hudkins	....	stunts (uncredited)
Leroy Johnson	....	stunts (uncredited)
Archie Fire Lame Deer	....	stunts (uncredited)
Bob May	....	stunts (uncredited)
Hal Needham	....	stunts (uncredited)
Jim Sheppard	....	stunts (uncredited)
Dean Smith	....	stunts (uncredited)

Music Department
Arthur Morton	....	orchestrator
Lee Pockriss	....	composer: song "Stagecoach to Cheyenne"
Paul Vance	....	composer: song "Stagecoach to Cheyenne"
Bill Brown	....	music arranger: vocal arrangements (uncredited)
Alexander Courage	....	conductor (uncredited)
Mike Deasy	....	musician (uncredited)
David Tamkin	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Other crew
Arthur Steloff	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1966) (USA) (theatrical)
• Centfox (1966) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1969) (USA) (TV) (original airing)

Runtime:

115 min | USA:110 min (FMC Library Print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono | 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

West Germany:16 (nf) | Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Arapaho Falls, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Bing Crosby's last cinema movie.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: After the perilous night-time ride down the muddy mountain during the rainstorm (and for that matter all throughout the movie), everyone's clothes were perfectly clean and pressed as if they'd just stepped out of Wardrobe.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Adam Adamant Lives!: A Vintage Year for Scoundrels (#1.1)" (1966)

Soundtrack:

Stagecoach Theme (I Will Follow)

not classic but well done

stagecoach 1966 is a well made film. it only comes up short when compared to the original. Granted Alex Cord is no John Wayne, then again who is. If you look at the other actors and actresses their parts are a little more fleshed out. We learn a little more about the characters throughout the film as compared to 1939. This is another 20th Century Fox Film from my youth that deserves to be at least on VHS if not on DVD, just like the recently released to DVD, What A Way To Go. It amazes me that the film studios will pop out so many dvds that are dreck and ignore classic movies, there are other movies that deserve to be on DVD, such as Major Dundee, Fort Apache, Ride The High Country and others.