Criterion is about to take you on a classic ride with its western “Stagecoach” that is coming to you on Blu-ray on the 25th of May. This 1939 classic action adventure western is the beginning of the wave of western movies that reigned over for a long, long time. This movie by John Ford has in its star cast biggies like John Carradine, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell and not to forget, John Wayne.
The movie is shot very finely and revolves around a set of strangers who travel together from Arizona and moving towards New Mexico, a very dangerous route with lots of trouble and thrills on the way.
Specials on the disc include:
- Theatrical trailer
- Audio commentary by noted western authority Jim Kitses
- Radio dramatization of Stagecoach from 1949
- Bucking Broadway (1917), a fifty-four-minute silent western by John Ford, with new music by Donald Sosin
- A booklet featuring an essay by David Cairns and the short story that inspired the film
- Extensive video interview with Ford from 1968
- New video interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- New video interview with stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong about Stagecoach’s stuntman Yakima Canutt
- New video interview with Dan Ford, biographer and grandson of the director, about Ford’s home movies
- New video essay by writer Tag Gallagher
- New video feature about Monument Valley
