Word: stagecoach
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Night (the title is film maker's argot for photographing scenes in daylight to make them look like night) recounts the frustrations, compensations and intramural emotional crises of a crew on location in Nice to shoot a movie called Meet Pamela. "Shooting a film is like taking a stagecoach ride in the Old West," says the director (deftly played by Truffaut himself). "First you hope to have a nice trip. Then you just hope to reach your destination...
...political values were assuaged. The paranoids could become enraged, raising a battle cry to fight the "rednecks" to the death, and anyone else with an uneasy self-image of rebelliousness could indulge his smugness by laughing at the yokels. It was better than John Wayne (no guilt about liking "Stagecoach") and besides, it had a great tune...
Ford's movies remained as powerful and functional as bullets. Nor did Ford restrict himself to a single genre. In six years he directed four classic films: The Informer, a tragedy of the Irish uprising; Stagecoach, the most emulated western of all time; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's saga of the Okies; and Eugene O'Neill's sea drama, The Long Voyage Home...
...Throughout the mesas of the Palomar Mountains are sprinkled Butterfield's 475 campsites. A $5 rental fee gets a standard site with water and electricity. For oak trees and a sewage hookup, the fee runs $2 more. The park attempts to re-create the spirit of the Butterfield stagecoach days with hay rides, an old-fashioned swimming hole, community cookouts and country-music shows. The focal point is an old Wild West village; on Sunday, church services are held in the Jemu saloon, with the obligatory nude paintings over the bar turned toward the wall...
...Stagecoach. (1939) John Ford's immortal study of character types among the passengers on an overland stage under Indian attack. Thomas Mitchell, John Wayne, Claire Trevor...