Word: stagecoach
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...towering movie figure, both uniting and divisive, Wayne can finally be seen as a superb actor, not a Vietnam-era political litmus test. He made more than 150 films, but three of the best are in this package. Stagecoach, his first western with director John Ford, made Wayne a star. Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo was the most genial and communal of Wayne's films, as Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson help him corral the bad guys. In Ford's The Searchers--about a man obsessed by the ravages done to his niece by an Indian chief--Wayne is a cauldron...
Friends! Do you wake up dead each morning because you watched another of those old-fashioned westerns on the late show? Have you stayed up past midnight to see High Noon ? Did you miss the bus to work because you caught Stagecoach at 3 a.m.? Well, suffer from horse-opera hangover no more! Now there's Silverado, the Cuisinart western! Silverado dices, splices, chops, co-opts, hones and clones every oater archetype in just 2 hr. 13 min.; that's less than 1% of the time it would take you to sit through the collected works of John Wayne...
...unneeded new but the abolition of the cherished old. To people who don't like flying, for example, it is depressing to realize that there is virtually no other way to get to Europe and that the passenger train, like the luxury liner, may soon be one with the stagecoach. To people accustomed to writing on manual typewriters, it is exasperating to learn that production has virtually ceased, and that the supply of accessories and spare parts keeps shrinking...
HANKS: I always felt when I was directing that I was the only guy on a runaway stagecoach with a team of horses. I found myself always questioning myself, always testing a choice of shots. I remember I was doing an episode of Band of Brothers, and I saw all those guys, all the actors, over there. I said, God I wish I was over there. Instead I've gotta go out and worry about what we're shooting this morning and this afternoon, and try to get one more shot...
Bush's new idea for in-flight security is a very old idea: have federal marshals ride shotgun on the airliners, much as they did in the days of the stagecoach. There are now perhaps three dozen marshals to cover 30,000 daily flights. Finding and training marshals, as Bush proposes, will take months. Still, the idea of armed plainclothes marshals will serve as a deterrent...