Few American movies have been as relentlessly canonized as John Ford’s Stagecoach — the ’65 Ford Mustang of Golden Era genre films. It’s an institution by now, from AFI tabulations to various best-ever lists (Luchino Visconti!) to National Film Registry entry to Oscar nominations (and one win, for Thomas Mitchell, who appeared in four other films in 1939, including Gone with the Wind and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ) to timeworn adulation as a piece of timeless western iconography to Orson Welles claiming, in prep for Citizen Kane , to have screened Ford’s movie 40 times. You have to see it, you have to own it.
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On DVD: How Does Stagecoach Stack Up Against Its Myth?
