The fantastic Ride
See also: Stagecoach
the fantastic Ride ( Stagecoach ) is a American Western of John Ford, left in 1939.
Synopsis
The Indians are on the path of the war. A diligence is ready to leave while taking along inter alia: a player, an expectant mother, a doctor addicted to drink, a prostitute, Dallas, rejected by the " good société" , and Ringo Kid, an outlaw just escaped from prison.
Comments
- It is the revealing film for John Wayne, which was going to become for forty years the emblematic figure of the American westerns.
- They are Indians Navajos who played the Apaches in film.
- the film uses the ingredients of a good western: courageous combat vis-a-vis the Indians, prostitute and outlaws in the large heart who aspire to found a hearth, doctor addicted to drink but generous even wise, faithful wife, etc the film glorifie to some extent the few virtues of common individuals of the large-west, and strongly emphasizes the family order source of happiness and social recognition, in opposition to the hollows of the cities and with the brutality of the Indians.
- This film is inspired by the news of Guy of Maupassant: Ball of tallow.
Data sheet
- original Title: Stagecoach
- Title: the fantastic ride
- Realization: John Ford
- Scenario: Dudley Nichols, according to the news of Ernest Haycox Training course to Lordsburg Photo
- : Bert Glennon
- Decorations: Alexander Toluboff
- Music: Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuen, Louis Gruenberg
- Assembly: Dorothy Spencer, Walter Reynolds
- Kind: Western
- Country: the United States
- Lasted: 97 minutes
- Left: March 2nd 1939 (the United States)
Distribution
- John Wayne: Ringo Kid
- Claire Trevor: Dallas
- John Carradine: Hatfield
- Thomas Mitchell: Doctor Boone
- Donald Meek: Samuel Peacock
- Louise Platt: Lucy Mallory
- Tim Holt : Lieutenant Blanchard
- George Bancroft: Shérif Curly Wilcox
- Andy Guesses: Buck
- Berton Churchill : Henry Gatewood
- Tom Tyler: Luke To pluck
Rewards
- the fantastic Ride obtains seven nominations with the Oscars in 1940, of which that of Better Realizer, but it obtains with final only the two rewards, for the Supporting role and the music. This year, the big winner is Gone With The Wind, of Victor Fleming.
External bond
- '' the fantastic Ride '' on Internet Movie Database
- Card of the film club of Caen
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