The stunts of the Apache falling and going under the horses and stagecoach as well as Ringo jumping from horse to horse were performed by the legendary Yakima Canutt.
@@greenmonsterprod yes the stunt in raiders was performed by stuntman Terry Leonard , he is still in the business and was the stunt director on the recent 2023 western "The Outlaw Johnny Black" starring Michael Jai White..
The Indian at the beginning was not Geronimo but rather an Indian from a rival tribe who brought the message of Geronimo's escape from the reservation to the soldiers. Geronimo was an Apache leader. Dallas was a prostitute. That is why she is kicked out of town at the beginning of the movie, along with Doc Boone, by a group of ladies who enforce public morality in the town. Hatfield, the gambler, puts the gun to Mrs. Mallory's head when they have run out of ammunition because he thinks they will be captured, and she will be raped. It was a common sentiment of that time that death was preferable to defilement of that kind. Hatfield is shot before he can kill Mrs. Mallory, which is good timing because at just that moment the U.S. Calvary rides in to save the day.
Torture, mutilation and death would often follow the Grapings unless you were in a certain age group that they thought could be easily enslaved by the tribe. Common fact but not one advertised in modern history books.
@@bluebird3281 They say this movie can't be made as is, because it portrays Indians as ruthless savages, and we can't have that in today's society. 🤣🤣🤣
And Hatfield didn't steal the silver cup, he was the son of the owner of Greenfield manor that would have fallen on hard times after the Civil War, so now he is a gambler in the west instead of a southern gentleman, and he doesn't want to admit it to a woman of his former class.
i think in the film dallas was a lady who's reputation was ruined by rumor of impropriety. she might've been falsely accused of prostitution, adutry, drinking or wearing her dresses to short. but it was the rumor that ruined her in the eyes of "pompous" townspeople. 1939 is considered the best year in american cinema. thomas mitchell, who played the drunk doctor, was in 2 other great films from that year; "gone with the wind" and frank capra's "mr. smith goes to washington" starring jimmy stewart. stewart also starred in a GREAT western comedy/drama in 1939 called "destry rides again." i'm sure you have your westerns already picked out but i hope you included "shane" (1953) and "destry rides again." "shane" is the epitome of american westerns. a classic!
He was such a fine Shakespearean actor. He was also seen in John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist", playing the part of the Undertaker. He Fathered several sons who made names for themselves as actors in Hollywood. The number of films he is in is very long.
@@feldweible Yes, but I'd say the other most famous role of his was of Reverend Casy in 1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" (B&W, directed by John Ford, and higtly recommended). And if Dawn wants to see a cool movie with all of Carradine's sons in it, she could watch another 1980 Western called "The Long Riders" where the Keaches, Carridines, Quaids and Guests all played the various brothers in the infamous James-Younger Gang out of Missouri. It has a great soundtrack by Ry Cooder to go with the fine film.
No, boiling water was a necessity as was tearing cloth into strips, as is mentioned in many old-time movies. The cloth strips were placed in the boiling water to make hot compresses, which were placed around the vaginal opening to make the skin more elastic and easier to pass the baby. It was not to get men out of the way. It was a common procedure when a woman had a baby.
Mr. Peacock was played by actor Thomas Donald Meek (1878 -1946), a Scottish American. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and on Broadway in 1903. Best known for the films You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Stagecoach. Meek was born in Glasgow. His family emigrated in the 1890's, first to Canada and then to the USA.
I am interested to hear about this trilogy, please tell us more. My favorite cavalry movie is "The Horse Solders" (1959)... I recommend this movie for Dawn and everyone.
@@Monty_BeGoodToEachOther John Ford Directed them, they aren't a trilogy in the sense that they are connected. Just that they are about the cavalry in the west, Wayne plays a different character in every one albeit a cavalry officer. With Ford's usual stable of actors filling out different roles in different movies. I like them all very much and highly recommend them as well. Herny Fonda is in my favorite "Fort Apache".
In 1939, the actor Thomas Mitchell, the drunk doctor was in the following: Stagecoach, Gone With The Wind, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and Only Angels Have Wings. He won an Oscar for Stagecoach as best supporting actor
Please, Dawn Marie! You will love the great Western Classic 'They Died With Their Boots On'. It stars Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHaviland. You have seen them in The 'Adventures of Robin Hood', and I remember you enjoyed that one. Errol Flynn and DeHaviland were the leading man and woman superstars of the 1930's. Olivia De Havalind died just recently at the age of 102. They co-starred in another western Civil war classic 'Sante Fe Trail'. You would thoroughly enjoy that black and white classic as well.
The actor who played the doctor played Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful LIfe. Andy Devine was also in this movie. He played the town marshal in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
John Carradine was a great actor! (Mr Hatfield, the gambler). You should also check out a few of his horror films. He was the father of the late actor David Carradine. (David starred in the successful TV western series, "Kung Fu" in the 1970s. He's also known for his role in the move "Kill Bill"
❤ Yakima Canutt was an acting stuntman in this movie. He was the Apache who jumped on the horse, attempting to stop the stage. This stunt inspired the Indiana Jones under truck stunt in RAIDERS. John Wayne was one of the first singing cowboys. Thankfully, they dubbed "singing Sandy's" voice. That lil feller you're looking for made more than 100 movies. I've seen probably 70 or more, but I can't place him in anything I know you've watched. That card playing dude made, John Carradine, made several hundred movies and TV shows. He also gave us several acting sons.i do not recommend BILLY THE KID VERSUS DRACULA unless you get chemically altered. There are Bunches of John Ford Monument Valley movies. I'm sure you'll see more. But you have already seen Doc and Marty and the Griswolds there. Thanks for watching
A fun little western from 1970 that you might enjoy is "The Cheyenne Social Club". Jimmy Stuart plays a cowboy that inherits a brothel. Some guys have all the luck.
Andy Devine "Buck the stage driver" was a well known character actor and did the voice of "Friar Tuck" in Disney's animated Robin Hood. His characteristic voice is even copied by voice actors today. He also played the Marshal in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
I don't know if you'll ever react to Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, and considered one of the greatest films ever made, but Orson Welles watched Stagecoach dozens of times before shooting Citizen Kane. Welles was asked who were the greatest directors and he answered -"John Ford, John Ford and John Ford". So you can imagine how influential Stagecoach is to the art of cinema.
1:42 Look at all the cells of that battery for the telegraph-a whole shelfful! I wonder how many people making a movie nowadays would know to include a battery if they had a scene set in a telegraph-office.
Stunt man Yakima Canut falling between the horses and under the stage coach, an epic stunt. A similar stunt was done in Raiders of the Lost Ark, under the moving truck. Clair Trevor (Dallas) see her in Key Largo 1948 with Humphrey Bogart Dallas is being snubbed because she is a prostitute, that's why she was 'run out of town'. Yes, the gambler was about to do a mercy killing of the woman. Agree so much with your 'dragging it out' point. The Indian at the start wasn't Geronimo.
Martin Scorsese once said about high contrast black and white that it "flattens the image" in a way that you are just focused on the information in the picture, like you said, the eye's not distracted by color. It's not always the case but when B&W is used well it can give a filmmaker real visual advantages to express or inspire certain emotions in the viewer. B&W is it's own unique art form.
Hello Dawn Marie, after realizing that I was passing by the Lordsburg of this movie. I have camped at the K.O.A. (Kampgrounds of America) at Lordsburg, New Mexico. It is a nice country town. I purchased an extralong pair jumper cables there. There is a nice restaurant that serves barbeque on Fridays. Also, near there, all in short walking distance is a nice Mom & Pop Mexican Food Restaurant. Very tasty. K.O.A. has miniature log cabins to rent. Now you know where to go should you ever take the stagecoach to Lordsburg.
And Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone With the Wind. His name is Thomas Mitchell. He along with Ward Bond was in just about every movie made from 1930 to 1960.
One more fantastic John Ford masterpiece: "My Darling Clementine"! "Stagecoach" and "My Darling Clementine" are my all time fave John Ford westerns. If you don't watch it this week, definitely keep it on the list for a future one!
When you say "masterpiece" and "John Ford" in the same sentence you're opening a can of worms. Personally I'm torn between "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" but it's a hard call.
The Native American at the very beginning was a Comanche, not Geronimo, who was an Apache. He is the leader of the raid towards the end. Dallas was what was known in those days as a Harlot or Trollop or a Woman of the City, or a yes Prostitute. Dawn Marie, your instincts are very good for figuring out what is going to happen, a lot of common sense. A truly excellent reaction.
John Wayne was not just in this one, it was the first movie he was a star in. "Dallas" was a saloon girl, and as such a "woman of ill repute. They commonly were employed getting the clientele to buy drinks, dance with them and often to rent an upstairs bedroom for an hour. The "decent" people of the town would not have anything to do with them. You should also watch the 1947 Wayne movie, "The angel and the bad man". Glad you enjoy these. Good reaction.
His first main acting role was in The Big Trail, done in 1930. At that time, he was raw and unexperienced as an actor to have had a leading role (but if you watch the movie, you see flashes of what he became later on). The movie was not a success, so for the next 8-9 years he was in minor movie roles and seasoned his acting and persona in minor western serials. You see the Duke we are familiar with in this movie.
Believe it or not, in the early years the studios tried to make John Wayne a singing cowboy, because that type of thing was popular at the time. As you might imagine, the results were, er, not so good. This movie really defined John Wayne's character for the rest of his career.
In 1939, because of movie censorship, following the directions set down by Will Hays (of the notorious Hays Office) You couldn't actually say a woman was a prostitute, nor could you even say a woman was pregnant. Film makers had to resort to dropping clues to get the message across. There was a period of film making that was a little more open about certain subjects, from the silent era up to around 1935, that are now designated as "pre code".
Western week is such a great idea. You know what else would be a great idea? Screwball Comedy Week! _It Happened One Night, 20th Century, My Man Godfrey, His Girl Friday,_ and _The Philadelphia Story._
@@rs-ye7kw While _Arsenic and Old Lace_ is an excellent adaptation of the play, it is not, strictly speaking, a screwball comedy. It should definitely be on one of Dawn's lists, just not for *Screwball Comedy Week.* There should definitely be a *Black Comedy Week:* Dawn's already watched _Dr. Strangelove_ and _Pulp Fiction,_ here are a few others: _Arsenic and Old Lace; The Trouble With Harry; Death at a Funeral_ (the UK version); _Fargo; The Guard; Being John Malkovich._
Andy Devine was a regular feature in westerns, and was also popular on radio because of his wild voice. He made frequent appearances on the old Jack Benny radio show, where he would appear shouting "HOWDY, BUCK!" Buck being Jack Benny's pretend cowboy name. He performed the wishing well song from Snow White with Jack Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, and sang so badly that she pushed him down the well and threw the bucket in after him. Donald Meek was one of those character actors who popped up in a lot of different types of movies, but I failed to cross-index any of his to your video list. He's been in some W.C. Fields comedies, like My Little Chickadee. Also popped up in other westerns, musicals, comedies, etc. He was just that perfect little nervous guy. I used to get him confused with John Fiedler, another little character actor. You saw him in 12 Angry Men. This is certainly the most ICONIC western movie ever. The truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark was certainly influenced by the Apache chase. The stunt where John Wayne's double leaps over the horses is legendary.
@@shotbytim9624 Close, Devine played Friar Tuck, who butted heads (stomachs) with the Sheriff. The Sheriff was Pat Buttram, who had been in a lot of lesser known westerns, and best known as Mr Haney in Green Acres (and one of Eddie Valiant's bullets in Roger Rabbit)
Yes, Dallas was a " sex professional". A fallen woman. This movie was the first with the "hooker with a heart of gold". The gambler was going to kill her so she wouldn't be taken by the Apache. He was played by John Carradine. His 3 sons all became actors too. Don't know if you realized, but the stunt where the guy jumped onto the horses, then went under the wagon, was repeated in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I hope some time in this awesome week, we get to see Tombstone. Silverado would be nice. El Dorado is another John Wayne that would be great. Whatever we watch, Best Reaction Ever! On to the next one!!
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF with James Garner is Awesome and BEND IN THE RIVER with James Stewart also!!! Other great Actors; Audie Murphy, Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott, Richard Boone and the singing Cowboy Roy Rogers just to name a few!!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
The "Hoop Lever Winchester carbine" is seen for the very first time on film in this movie. It was specially made for the film and it became ridiculously popular.
Dawn you gotta watch.... Red River (1948) The best John Wayne western. Voted many times in the top 10 best westerns of all-time. John plays a tough and kind ranch owner turned into a wild trail boss. It's about the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail with a 10,000 head of cattle ! One of my all-time favorite John Wayne movies🤠
Howdy! I’m begging you to react to Elephant Man because I think you’d really enjoy it! It has many things going for it; it’s a true story, it’s filmed in black and white, it stars a young Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt (and a childhood aged Dexter Fletcher)
Those who don't know: "Old movies are so long and slow paced! Anyway, imma gonna go watch my 3 hour meandering superhero movie." Those in the know: "Ooh, got an hour and half before I got to go for the bus. Time to watch a 90 minute fast paced old timey that don't hang about and punches the 'The End' closing title button approximately 90 seconds after the final showdown."
I hope you get a chance to view John Ford’s Rio Grande. It stars John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. The stunt riding in it is spectacular with two great western actors performing their own stunts (Ben Johnson and Harry Cary Jr.). They had both been stunt riders before Ford gave them speaking roles. Ben Johnson later on won an Oscar for The Last Picture Show.
check out Tall in the Saddle 1944, it's my favorite John Wayne western and is one of his most underrated roles imo. Dawn would love the characters in it
It's a classic, and I'm sooo glad you watched the original Dawn ✌️🙂 It's simple Dawn you see Dallas comes from the other side of the tracks so like the drunk Doc. Boone they are both looked down on by the so called clean and proper people.
You may remember Andy Devine as the lawman in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Basically, he was always getting free food at the restaurant, and not doing much else.
There was not a lot of room in those old stage coaches and people with exceptionally big butts were not allowed to ride. That's where we get the saying, "There's no west for the reary."
Yes there were so many good actors. One- did Richard Boone ever look young😂. Another is it was so great John Wayne used his stardom to help the people he met as a stunt artist. Some were considered used up and couldn’t do stunts anymore yet the duke gave them work to feel productive and pay their bills. Understand nowadays only Keanu Reeves does things similar.
I agree with you about tv shows being too long and full of filler. That's why I like the old half hour westerns and cop shows. They're especially an easy lunchtime watch.
They're rude to Dallas (Claire Trevor) -- especially the women -- because she was the town wh*re. She plays the same part in another excellent movie Dead End (1937).
The two most likeable characters (the ones that we, the audience, root for) are two social outcasts, a prostitute and an escaped convict. Meanwhile, the respectable people (the banker, Gatewood, and the lady, Mrs. Mallory), are pretty lousy people: Gatewood is running away with people's money that he has stolen from the bank, and Mrs. Mallory is a cold-hearted snob. The whole movie is a journey away from the first town (named Tonto, which in Spanish means stupid), a town run by a group of ladies who in the name of public morality persecute the good-hearted Dallas and Doc Boone, a town which represents the old world of social hierarchy, and judgment upon those who can't live up to its standards. Ringo and Dallas are like the Adam and Eve of the new nation that is forming through westward expansion. They were both dealt a lousy lot in life: Dallas' family was slaughtered when she was a kid, and she had to provide for herself in one of the only ways a woman could in that world; and Ringo was a good kid, part of a good family, until his father and brother were killed, and he was sent off to prison. They were dealt a lousy lot in life, but they have good hearts, and that's what counts in this new nation, not their pedigree, not their past, not their social standing. As they ride off to start a new life in the open country, Doc Boone says, "they're freed from the blessings of civilization." The snobby ladies at the beginning of the movie (whom Dallas describes as "worse than Apaches") represent the worse aspects of civilization. The westward expansion and birth of a new nation are, in the view of John Ford, a journey away from that kind of civilization toward a life of wholesome freedom.
@@behindthescenesphotos5133 The truth of the West and women is hard to decipher. The idea of the movie is that if a woman was on her own she had the choice of respectability ( marriage) or crime( prostitution). The views on prostitution changed with the times and circumstances. Some large companies set up brothels to make sure miners, loggers, or factory workers had safer options and to keep control. The anti white slavery movement grew with its alliance with the powerful Anti Saloon league. The once powerful Anti Saloon league is what the women in the movie represented. It’s hard to imagine how powerful the Anti Saloon league and the anti White Slavery movement was in society. To grasp their power , that’s how Prohibition became law and the shutting down of racy materials became a fabric of America
Great points. In fact, with the exception of Gatewood, all of the main characters on the stagecoach change when Little Coyote is born (there's a bit of a mystery concerning who's really the father, since I doubt a Union officer would leave their pregnant wife alone). The drunken Doc Boone sobers up; Hatfield/Greenfield, a Confederate veteran, supports Boone, an Union veteran, and dies a hero; Sheriff Curley becomes less of a lawman and more of a surrogate father to Ringo; Buck gets less goofy when shot; Peacock reminds himself that he's a father himself.
It wasn't just an early Wayne film, it was his first starring roll.The guy you called Andy was Andy devine, you also saw him in the man who shot liberty valance (cowardly sheriff)and the animated robin hood (friar tuck).He was in a lot of films.
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Claire Trevor also featured in several classic film noirs, including Key Largo (1948), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Born to Kill (1947), and Raw Deal (1948). Her performance in Key Largo nearly outshines Bogart, Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson. She took home the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for it too.
Three westerns you should watch. 1. Last Train from Gun Hill - 1959 starring Kirk Douglas 2. Silver Lode - 1954 starring John Payne 3. ANY western starring Glenn Ford between 1941 and 1973.
As good as this is, the 1966 Remake is SO MUCH BETTER! Alex Cord as Ringo, Van Heflin as Sheriff Curley, Ann Margaret as Dallas, Bing Crosby as Doc, Red Buttons as Peacock, Mike Connors as Hatfield the gambler, Stefanie Powers as Mrs. Mallory, Bob Cummings as Gatewood, Slim Pickens as Buck (stagecoach driver), and Keenan Wynn as Luke Plummer. They're not so shy in that one why Dallas, the dancehall floozy, is being treated poorly. And the acting is a couple notches superior in the '66 remake, not to mention outstanding scenery shot on location.
Andy Devine voiced Friar Tuck in Disney’s Robin Hood (1973). Andy Devine also played Marshal Link Appleyard in ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ (1962) with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart.
Arsenic and old lace is one the films you were thinking of I think. Some western suggestions for you. The Sons of Katie Elder ,El Dorado, and Rio Bravo with John Wayne are all basically the same movie but all great 😁 Have you done True Grit and Rooster Cogburn yet (Again with Wayne) You have to do Tombstone!! Unforgiven Young Guns And I'll shoehorn The Last Of The Mohicans into my list 😆
Mr. Peacock, the whisky salesman, was played by Donald Meek (1878-1946), a Scottish-born (Glasgow) American actor. He did a ton of movies in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. I don't know if you have seen him in another film. It must be in one of the older ones.
The stagecoach driver is Andy Devine, who plays Buck, Thomas Mitchell plays Doc Boone, John Carradine plays Hatfield, Donald Meek plays Peacock, Clair Trevor plays Dallas, Louise Platt plays Mrs. Lucy Mallory and Yakima Canutt plays the Cavalry Scout and an Indian attacking the stagecoach. Dallas was a prostitute being run out of town by the "Law & Order League".
Director John Ford used to work with what could be called on-going company cast in a lot of his movies. John Wayne starred in many (as did Maureen O'Hara, usually as his love interest, or they featured James Stewart or Henry Fonda), along with character actors in this film (like John Carradine, Andy Devine) and others like Ward Bond, Victor McLagen and Barry Fitzgerald. He liked filming on location instead of in studio and one of his favorite places was Monument Valley (Arizona-Utah border) which in no way looks like anywhere in Texas 😉, but it's perfect for films! He tended to hire real Native American actors to portray them on film and he was beloved by the Navaho tribe he employed in Monument Valley over many films. He won 4 Academy Awards for Direction. When Orson Welles was preparing to film "Citizen Kane", his debut masterpiece, he said that he watched "Stagecoach" over 40 times to learn how best direct a movie.
This is my 2nd favorite western The best is The Searchers, also with John Wayne. 2:15 Andy Devine was in Robin Hood (1973), also in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) as well as A Star Is Born (1937) and a million others. 6:50 I drive by there every time I travel from Arizona to Colorado. That's on the Navajo Nation reservation and never ceases to draw my admiration. They look even better in color!
1:45 Thanks for that. You gave me a nice flashback about being at my Grannys after school waiting for Mum to come pick me up. Having tea and watching Black&White TV. Gave me a smile and a small tear or two. 6:50 "Wow..." Indeed. You have no idea how stunning it looked in colour when I was there myself a few years ago. If you ever get a chance to go on holiday in the USA, forget Florida and the other tourist traps. Get to the Grand Canyon / Monument Valley / Southern Utah's National Parks, it's freakin' awesome. Like driving through a geology lesson. And now you've seen a movie or two, you'll be spotting locations used in movies like a professional scout. 16:20 LOL, could've managed without that thought being put into my head. Glad I'm not a girl.
The Hays Code which severely censored movies until 1969 (when the current letter rating system replaced it) was an iron clamp on everything. They couldn't say explicitly that Dallas was a prostitute nor could they use words like "pregnant" for Mrs. Mallory. They couldn't even depict her with an extended stomach. On the other hand, the audience also knew the code and would have picked up on everything. If you ever get a chance to watch Gone With The Wind, also released in 1939, there is a similar character of ill-repute, Belle Watlings, who also was sweet, but the good ladies of the town simply could not be seen speaking to her. (And the doc in this movie, besides playing Uncle Billy in It's A Wonderful Life, played Scarlett O'hara's father in GWTW.)
Drunk doctor is Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life. Glad you are watching movies from the 1930's. I definitely recommend The Thin Man. It's a comedy/mystery.
You better be watching "Quigley Down Under"(1990)! As a Western Fan who seen every Western Quigley is top 5. Tom Selleck is the picture perfect Cowboy.
"The Big Trail" (1930) starring 23 year old John Wayne is a surprisingly good western you need to catch someday. IMDb gives it a 7.2 rating, and Rotten Tomatoes gave it 100% rating on 9 reviews. Amazon has it at 4.7 out of 5.
The movie that made John Wayne a star....and actor Sophie - Therese ##### Penelope ##John Carradine (suavely dressed one) is father of David Carradine star of 70s tv series Kung Fu. (1939 is considered the best year for classic films).
Dawn Marie, I had John Wayne walk up to me on San Juan Island Washington State. JW asked me where best place to eat. I gave him bad time about his zodiac rubber rafts, that's my dive boat. JW invited me to visit his yacht wild goose where he takes me I to aft stateroom where I'm face to face with Ben Johnson my dad thinks you're the best horseman in all Hollywood! Not thinking in standing right next to John Wayne. Ben Johnson asked me, who do you think is best Hollywood horseman of all time? You mean, other than you, cause you'd be my first pick! Stateroom cheered! Then I'd say, Glenn Ford sat a saddle as well as anyone! Stateroom cheered again. JW put his arm across my shoulder and toasts my father, "your father is a smart man"! Do you want a tour of the ship? I thought you never ask? An off we went investigating ship from end too end! I told my dive partner, jenny, that I met John Wayne an we need to take him some seafood. We gather lingcod, abolone scallops shrimp, sea bass, etc. I guide my zodiac to JW yacht an Kenny knocked on hull. Who's hanging on my ship? Oh, it's you, pilgrim! We brought you some seafood and Kenny handed up our goodie bag. Days later we are buying cheese in store when he see us. Hey pilgrim, thanks for the seafood! If you have any extra abolone bring them by! Kenny says, spare abolone! An 3 of us laugh! This is my scuba diving partner, Kenny Wayne Smith, he's named after you! Later when John Wayne left us, we could hear him saying to himself, dang, the kids named after me!
This was John Wayne's first top billing movie. This is a top classic western movie. The Professionals, A Few Dollars More, Magnificent 7, Cat Balou, Are all great westerns, worth watching. Will see which ones you picked.
The Western movie you'll really like the most is "The Angel and the Bad Man", there's developing romance between the 'Bad Man' (John Wayne) and a ('Quaker') girl. A very good movie.
Westerns until this classic were low budget B movies that were mostly shown in secondary theaters and considered for young boys and rural markets.John Wayne has been a singing cowboy and by this film had appeared in over 60 low budget Westerns during the 1930’s. He was Singing Sandy. This movie made him a mainstream star .This movie was the first adult Western with mature themes( for the day) and social commentary. To prepare for making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles watched Stagecoach over 35 times to copy the film style of John Ford. The background use( Ai think it’s Monument Valley?) was stunning to audiences that had never seen the beauty and vastness of the West. John Ford and John Wayne would become synonymous with great Westerns and this was the start. My mother told me that when she saw this in 1939, the audience stirred when John Wayne appears . She told me that going into the movie John Wayne was just another cowboy but by the end, he was a star. All of her high school friends thought he was dreamy. He wasn’t on the level of Gable or Ty Power but he was now a beefcake.
The stunts of the Apache falling and going under the horses and stagecoach as well as Ringo jumping from horse to horse were performed by the legendary Yakima Canutt.
Yeah, that’s him standing and talking at 1:32 He was in several old B-Westerns with the Duke.
Legendary stuntman. Many Westerns copied that amazing horse jumping trick, but he was the first...and best.
he was also involved in the chariot race scene in Ben Hur.
This stunt inspired the scene in "Raiders" when Indy slides under the truck, then climbs back on.
@@greenmonsterprod yes the stunt in raiders was performed by stuntman Terry Leonard , he is still in the business and was the stunt director on the recent 2023 western "The Outlaw Johnny Black" starring Michael Jai White..
The Indian at the beginning was not Geronimo but rather an Indian from a rival tribe who brought the message of Geronimo's escape from the reservation to the soldiers. Geronimo was an Apache leader. Dallas was a prostitute. That is why she is kicked out of town at the beginning of the movie, along with Doc Boone, by a group of ladies who enforce public morality in the town. Hatfield, the gambler, puts the gun to Mrs. Mallory's head when they have run out of ammunition because he thinks they will be captured, and she will be raped. It was a common sentiment of that time that death was preferable to defilement of that kind. Hatfield is shot before he can kill Mrs. Mallory, which is good timing because at just that moment the U.S. Calvary rides in to save the day.
Torture, mutilation and death would often follow the Grapings unless you were in a certain age group that they thought could be easily enslaved by the tribe. Common fact but not one advertised in modern history books.
@@bluebird3281 They say this movie can't be made as is, because it portrays Indians as ruthless savages, and we can't have that in today's society. 🤣🤣🤣
And Hatfield didn't steal the silver cup, he was the son of the owner of Greenfield manor that would have fallen on hard times after the Civil War, so now he is a gambler in the west instead of a southern gentleman, and he doesn't want to admit it to a woman of his former class.
i think in the film dallas was a lady who's reputation was ruined by rumor of impropriety. she might've been falsely accused of prostitution, adutry, drinking or wearing her dresses to short. but it was the rumor that ruined her in the eyes of "pompous" townspeople.
1939 is considered the best year in american cinema. thomas mitchell, who played the drunk doctor, was in 2 other great films from that year; "gone with the wind" and frank capra's "mr. smith goes to washington" starring jimmy stewart. stewart also starred in a GREAT western comedy/drama in 1939 called "destry rides again." i'm sure you have your westerns already picked out but i hope you included "shane" (1953) and "destry rides again." "shane" is the epitome of american westerns. a classic!
@@cjmacq-vg8um BTW Thomas Mitchell is also "Uncle Billy" in "It's a Wonderful Life."
"That's a new born. Where did they get a new born?" I've heard they had some of those back in 1939.
My guess is Walmart
but in Monument Valley?
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I think she meant it was surprising to actually see a new born and not one a little older.
Really good editing of a real newborn in Los Angeles into this film.
2:24 Part of the fun of watching old movies is knowing a character actor. The gent lurking in the back is John Carradine.
He was such a fine Shakespearean actor. He was also seen in John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist", playing the part of the Undertaker. He Fathered several sons who made names for themselves as actors in Hollywood. The number of films he is in is very long.
@@feldweible Yes, but I'd say the other most famous role of his was of Reverend Casy in 1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" (B&W, directed by John Ford, and higtly recommended). And if Dawn wants to see a cool movie with all of Carradine's sons in it, she could watch another 1980 Western called "The Long Riders" where the Keaches, Carridines, Quaids and Guests all played the various brothers in the infamous James-Younger Gang out of Missouri. It has a great soundtrack by Ry Cooder to go with the fine film.
@@feldweible Carradine was also in John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist" in 1976.
Since you like Leslie Nielsen , you should watch Forbidden Planet (1956)
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They tell men to go boil water because it gets them out of the way.
My mom told me the same thing when I was a kid. The old grannies would have a list of chores to distract the men and get them out from underfoot.
No, boiling water was a necessity as was tearing cloth into strips, as is mentioned in many old-time movies. The cloth strips were placed in the boiling water to make hot compresses, which were placed around the vaginal opening to make the skin more elastic and easier to pass the baby. It was not to get men out of the way. It was a common procedure when a woman had a baby.
I love it!
@@dalelatham2718 The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
Thank you for reacting outside of the box. Great choice.
Mr. Peacock was played by actor Thomas Donald Meek (1878 -1946), a Scottish American. He first performed publicly at the age of eight and on Broadway in 1903. Best known for the films You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Stagecoach. Meek was born in Glasgow. His family emigrated in the 1890's, first to Canada and then to the USA.
Just think Dawn, in 1939 there were still people around who had lived through the conflict with Geronimo when they were young.
Actually my granmother was taken to see Geronimo when she was young in Oklahoma, she said his eyes were scary.
@@allenporter6586 Years of having Mexicans and Americans massacring your family and stealing lands might tend to put a harsh edge on one's appearance.
John Wayne did a trilogy about the cavalry. fort apache, she wore a yellow ribbon, and Rio grande. Highly recommend seeing them as well
I am interested to hear about this trilogy, please tell us more. My favorite cavalry movie is "The Horse Solders" (1959)... I recommend this movie for Dawn and everyone.
@@Monty_BeGoodToEachOther John Ford Directed them, they aren't a trilogy in the sense that they are connected. Just that they are about the cavalry in the west, Wayne plays a different character in every one albeit a cavalry officer. With Ford's usual stable of actors filling out different roles in different movies. I like them all very much and highly recommend them as well. Herny Fonda is in my favorite "Fort Apache".
The Searchers is about the calvalry as well, isn't it? It's been years since I've seen it, though.
@@deckofcards87 the searchers does have cavalry in it but it's not apart of John Ford and John Wayne's cavalry trilogy
In 1939, the actor Thomas Mitchell, the drunk doctor was in the following: Stagecoach, Gone With The Wind, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and Only Angels Have Wings. He won an Oscar for Stagecoach as best supporting actor
He actually competed against himself (probably GWTW role as the crazy father).
Wasn't he also Uncle Billy in "It's A Wonderful Life?"
T Mitchell was also in Its a Wonderful life
Probably the best year of classics for any actor ever?
Thank you for reacting to this. There is so much quality in older films. I hope you keep going down the rabbit hole.
Please, Dawn Marie! You will love the great Western Classic 'They Died With Their Boots On'. It stars Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHaviland. You have seen them in The 'Adventures of Robin Hood', and I remember you enjoyed that one.
Errol Flynn and DeHaviland were the leading man and woman superstars of the 1930's. Olivia De Havalind died just recently at the age of 102.
They co-starred in another western Civil war classic 'Sante Fe Trail'.
You would thoroughly enjoy that black and white classic as well.
3:17--Doc is Thomas Mitchell
4:31--John Carradine
6:51--Monument Valley
18:50--Yakima Canutt--stunt man
22:00--Andy Devine
Yakima and John Wayne go way back to his early days as a stuntman while attending college.
It was because Dallas was a woman of ill repute that she was run out of town. Ringo doesn't know at first, and then he doesn't care.
I'm in for Western week, I bloody love Stagecoach! Hopefully you'll be watching The Professionals as well. X
The actor who played the doctor played Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful LIfe. Andy Devine was also in this movie. He played the town marshal in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Also voice of Friar Tuck. I remember him mostly from Flipper.
Andy's gang. Plunk your magic twanger froggy .
That was NOT Geronimo at the start! He was bringing info about Geronimo.
John Carradine was a great actor! (Mr Hatfield, the gambler). You should also check out a few of his horror films. He was the father of the late actor David Carradine. (David starred in the successful TV western series, "Kung Fu" in the 1970s. He's also known for his role in the move "Kill Bill"
Ĥe also the father of Robert Carradine who was one of the boys in The Cowboys and in the comedy Revenge of the Nerds
❤ Yakima Canutt was an acting stuntman in this movie. He was the Apache who jumped on the horse, attempting to stop the stage. This stunt inspired the Indiana Jones under truck stunt in RAIDERS. John Wayne was one of the first singing cowboys. Thankfully, they dubbed "singing Sandy's" voice. That lil feller you're looking for made more than 100 movies. I've seen probably 70 or more, but I can't place him in anything I know you've watched. That card playing dude made, John Carradine, made several hundred movies and TV shows. He also gave us several acting sons.i do not recommend BILLY THE KID VERSUS DRACULA unless you get chemically altered. There are Bunches of John Ford Monument Valley movies. I'm sure you'll see more. But you have already seen Doc and Marty and the Griswolds there. Thanks for watching
I hope you get around to Destry Rides Again (1939) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) -- two very different favourites of mine.
A fun little western from 1970 that you might enjoy is "The Cheyenne Social Club". Jimmy Stuart plays a cowboy that inherits a brothel. Some guys have all the luck.
dear god, I watched this movie over and over again as a kid, but it has been 30 years... This is the biggest shot of nostalgia I've ever had.
Andy Devine "Buck the stage driver" was a well known character actor and did the voice of "Friar Tuck" in Disney's animated Robin Hood. His characteristic voice is even copied by voice actors today. He also played the Marshal in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance".
I don't know if you'll ever react to Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, and considered one of the greatest films ever made, but Orson Welles watched Stagecoach dozens of times before shooting Citizen Kane. Welles was asked who were the greatest directors and he answered -"John Ford, John Ford and John Ford". So you can imagine how influential Stagecoach is to the art of cinema.
1:42 Look at all the cells of that battery for the telegraph-a whole shelfful! I wonder how many people making a movie nowadays would know to include a battery if they had a scene set in a telegraph-office.
Stunt man Yakima Canut falling between the horses and under the stage coach, an epic stunt.
A similar stunt was done in Raiders of the Lost Ark, under the moving truck.
Clair Trevor (Dallas) see her in Key Largo 1948 with Humphrey Bogart
Dallas is being snubbed because she is a prostitute, that's why she was 'run out of town'.
Yes, the gambler was about to do a mercy killing of the woman.
Agree so much with your 'dragging it out' point.
The Indian at the start wasn't Geronimo.
Martin Scorsese once said about high contrast black and white that it "flattens the image" in a way that you are just focused on the information in the picture, like you said, the eye's not distracted by color. It's not always the case but when B&W is used well it can give a filmmaker real visual advantages to express or inspire certain emotions in the viewer. B&W is it's own unique art form.
Real stunts ; no CGI back then.
8:28 Claire Trevor plays the fem fatale in one of my favorite movies, "Murder, My Sweet." 1944. A gumshoe detective noir film.
Yeah MMS was a masterpiece and Claire was hot.
@@billolsen4360 I think it is.
Hello Dawn Marie, after realizing that I was passing by the Lordsburg of this movie. I have camped at the K.O.A. (Kampgrounds of America) at Lordsburg, New Mexico. It is a nice country town. I purchased an extralong pair jumper cables there. There is a nice restaurant that serves barbeque on Fridays. Also, near there, all in short walking distance is a nice Mom & Pop Mexican Food Restaurant. Very tasty. K.O.A. has miniature log cabins to rent. Now you know where to go should you ever take the stagecoach to Lordsburg.
The drunk doc is Uncle Billy in Its A Wonderful Life
And Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone With the Wind. His name is Thomas Mitchell. He along with Ward Bond was in just about every movie made from 1930 to 1960.
@@ryansyler8847 Thomas earned an Best Supporting Oscar for this film. Stagecoach should have earned another for Best Adapted Screenplay.
@@Madbandit77 It's hard to name just one movie from 1939 that deserved the Oscar. It was the greatest year in Hollywood's history.
@@ryansyler8847 Here, here!
Although Dawn probably remembers him more as the newspaper publisher in Liberty Valance
One more fantastic John Ford masterpiece: "My Darling Clementine"! "Stagecoach" and "My Darling Clementine" are my all time fave John Ford westerns. If you don't watch it this week, definitely keep it on the list for a future one!
When you say "masterpiece" and "John Ford" in the same sentence you're opening a can of worms. Personally I'm torn between "The Searchers" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" but it's a hard call.
The Native American at the very beginning was a Comanche, not Geronimo, who was an Apache. He is the leader of the raid towards the end. Dallas was what was known in those days as a Harlot or Trollop or a Woman of the City, or a yes Prostitute. Dawn Marie, your instincts are very good for figuring out what is going to happen, a lot of common sense. A truly excellent reaction.
As an American, I greatly appreciate your enjoyment of our Western movies and our beloved actors that brought smiles and laughter to so many.
Sending y'all a warm Howdy from Stagecoach Texas ! 🤠
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John Wayne was not just in this one, it was the first movie he was a star in. "Dallas" was a saloon girl, and as such a "woman of ill repute. They commonly were employed getting the clientele to buy drinks, dance with them and often to rent an upstairs bedroom for an hour. The "decent" people of the town would not have anything to do with them. You should also watch the 1947 Wayne movie, "The angel and the bad man". Glad you enjoy these. Good reaction.
His first main acting role was in The Big Trail, done in 1930. At that time, he was raw and unexperienced as an actor to have had a leading role (but if you watch the movie, you see flashes of what he became later on). The movie was not a success, so for the next 8-9 years he was in minor movie roles and seasoned his acting and persona in minor western serials. You see the Duke we are familiar with in this movie.
@@robincochran7369 I thought this was the first one that he had star billing. I guess I could be wrong.
Believe it or not, in the early years the studios tried to make John Wayne a singing cowboy, because that type of thing was popular at the time. As you might imagine, the results were, er, not so good. This movie really defined John Wayne's character for the rest of his career.
@@randallshuck2976 I guess not too many people knew about the earlier movie. And it was called The Big Trail, not The Long Trail, my mistake.
In 1939, because of movie censorship, following the directions set down by Will Hays (of the notorious Hays Office) You couldn't actually say a woman was a prostitute, nor could you even say a woman was pregnant. Film makers had to resort to dropping clues to get the message across. There was a period of film making that was a little more open about certain subjects, from the silent era up to around 1935, that are now designated as "pre code".
Western week is such a great idea. You know what else would be a great idea? Screwball Comedy Week!
_It Happened One Night, 20th Century, My Man Godfrey, His Girl Friday,_ and _The Philadelphia Story._
Also add "Ball of fire."
And "Arsenic and old Lace", maybe the screwballiest of them all.(yeah, I just made up that word)
@@rs-ye7kw While _Arsenic and Old Lace_ is an excellent adaptation of the play, it is not, strictly speaking, a screwball comedy. It should definitely be on one of Dawn's lists, just not for *Screwball Comedy Week.*
There should definitely be a *Black Comedy Week:* Dawn's already watched _Dr. Strangelove_ and _Pulp Fiction,_ here are a few others: _Arsenic and Old Lace; The Trouble With Harry; Death at a Funeral_ (the UK version); _Fargo; The Guard; Being John Malkovich._
Indeed! And how about My Favorite Wife.
2:02 Andy Devine. He seemed to always be in Paramount comedies with Bing or Bob.
Andy also had his own TV series back in the early years of television.
Andy Devine was a regular feature in westerns, and was also popular on radio because of his wild voice. He made frequent appearances on the old Jack Benny radio show, where he would appear shouting "HOWDY, BUCK!" Buck being Jack Benny's pretend cowboy name. He performed the wishing well song from Snow White with Jack Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone, and sang so badly that she pushed him down the well and threw the bucket in after him.
Donald Meek was one of those character actors who popped up in a lot of different types of movies, but I failed to cross-index any of his to your video list. He's been in some W.C. Fields comedies, like My Little Chickadee. Also popped up in other westerns, musicals, comedies, etc. He was just that perfect little nervous guy.
I used to get him confused with John Fiedler, another little character actor. You saw him in 12 Angry Men.
This is certainly the most ICONIC western movie ever. The truck chase in Raiders of the Lost Ark was certainly influenced by the Apache chase. The stunt where John Wayne's double leaps over the horses is legendary.
Donald Meek was in Captain Blood Errol Flynn's breakout role
Was it the Sheriff of Nottingham that Andy Devine voiced in Disney's Robin Hood?
@@shotbytim9624 Close, Devine played Friar Tuck, who butted heads (stomachs) with the Sheriff. The Sheriff was Pat Buttram, who had been in a lot of lesser known westerns, and best known as Mr Haney in Green Acres (and one of Eddie Valiant's bullets in Roger Rabbit)
I went to see an old black and white classic at the cinema last night. After Western Week you really have to do On The Waterfront!👌
Yes, Dallas was a " sex professional". A fallen woman. This movie was the first with the "hooker with a heart of gold". The gambler was going to kill her so she wouldn't be taken by the Apache. He was played by John Carradine. His 3 sons all became actors too. Don't know if you realized, but the stunt where the guy jumped onto the horses, then went under the wagon, was repeated in Raiders of the Lost Ark. I hope some time in this awesome week, we get to see Tombstone. Silverado would be nice. El Dorado is another John Wayne that would be great. Whatever we watch, Best Reaction Ever! On to the next one!!
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHERIFF with James Garner is Awesome and BEND IN THE RIVER with James Stewart also!!! Other great Actors; Audie Murphy, Glenn Ford, Randolph Scott, Richard Boone and the singing Cowboy Roy Rogers just to name a few!!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
The "Hoop Lever Winchester carbine" is seen for the very first time on film in this movie. It was specially made for the film and it became ridiculously popular.
The Big Country with Gregory Peck Another good western
One person you recognized was Donald Meek -- born in Glasgow.
Dawn you gotta watch....
Red River (1948)
The best John Wayne western. Voted many times in the top 10 best westerns of all-time.
John plays a tough and kind ranch owner turned into a wild trail boss.
It's about the first cattle drive up the Chisholm Trail with a 10,000 head of cattle ! One of my all-time favorite John Wayne movies🤠
Howdy! I’m begging you to react to Elephant Man because I think you’d really enjoy it! It has many things going for it; it’s a true story, it’s filmed in black and white, it stars a young Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt (and a childhood aged Dexter Fletcher)
Those who don't know: "Old movies are so long and slow paced! Anyway, imma gonna go watch my 3 hour meandering superhero movie."
Those in the know: "Ooh, got an hour and half before I got to go for the bus. Time to watch a 90 minute fast paced old timey that don't hang about and punches the 'The End' closing title button approximately 90 seconds after the final showdown."
I hope you get a chance to view John Ford’s Rio Grande. It stars John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara. The stunt riding in it is spectacular with two great western actors performing their own stunts (Ben Johnson and Harry Cary Jr.). They had both been stunt riders before Ford gave them speaking roles. Ben Johnson later on won an Oscar for The Last Picture Show.
Great Reaction to John Wayne's Breakout Role.........
Love Stagecoach. Modern movies can’t figure out how to character development.
Great timing! I am busy building & painting a miniature of this stagecoach, with horses & passengers 😊
check out Tall in the Saddle 1944, it's my favorite John Wayne western and is one of his most underrated roles imo.
Dawn would love the characters in it
It's a classic, and I'm sooo glad you watched the original Dawn ✌️🙂
It's simple Dawn you see Dallas comes from the other side of the tracks so like the drunk Doc. Boone they are both looked down on by the so called clean and proper people.
You may remember Andy Devine as the lawman in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Basically, he was always getting free food at the restaurant, and not doing much else.
There was not a lot of room in those old stage coaches and people with exceptionally big butts were not allowed to ride. That's where we get the saying, "There's no west for the reary."
I love these videos, what a wholesome way to spend a Monday night. Takes my mind off the election.
The guy was gonna shoot Mrs. Mallory because he didn’t want her to suffer at the hands of the Apache
How about John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in (Rio Grande).
He was saving the last bullet for the women who had given birth because of what would have happened to her if she was taken alive.
The way the camera zooms in on John Wayne
Is a great shot. Great intro for the Ringo Kid and the Duke.
1939 was a very good year for movies.
True. Lot's of good movies were made in 1939. I 1939 The Wizard of Oz lost best picture award to Gone With The Wind.
How about John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in (Rio Grande).
Yes there were so many good actors. One- did Richard Boone ever look young😂. Another is it was so great John Wayne used his stardom to help the people he met as a stunt artist. Some were considered used up and couldn’t do stunts anymore yet the duke gave them work to feel productive and pay their bills. Understand nowadays only Keanu Reeves does things similar.
I agree with you about tv shows being too long and full of filler. That's why I like the old half hour westerns and cop shows. They're especially an easy lunchtime watch.
They're rude to Dallas (Claire Trevor) -- especially the women -- because she was the town wh*re. She plays the same part in another excellent movie Dead End (1937).
She won an Oscar in the Bogie and Bacall movie Key Largo
You have no idea what apaches used to do, Comaches were FAR worse.
Yay! First reaction on YT for this landmark film. Thank you Dawn Marie.
This was filmed in Monument Valley, and it is absolutely beautiful.
Monument Valley is in Utah, Dawn. It’s so beautiful, John Ford shot a lot of his movies there.
That's so funny. I had no idea who that guy was, but as soon as I heard his voice I was like "That's the sheriff from Robin Hood!" 😂
Not the sheriff he played friar tuck. The sheriff was played by pat buttram from green acres
The two most likeable characters (the ones that we, the audience, root for) are two social outcasts, a prostitute and an escaped convict. Meanwhile, the respectable people (the banker, Gatewood, and the lady, Mrs. Mallory), are pretty lousy people: Gatewood is running away with people's money that he has stolen from the bank, and Mrs. Mallory is a cold-hearted snob. The whole movie is a journey away from the first town (named Tonto, which in Spanish means stupid), a town run by a group of ladies who in the name of public morality persecute the good-hearted Dallas and Doc Boone, a town which represents the old world of social hierarchy, and judgment upon those who can't live up to its standards. Ringo and Dallas are like the Adam and Eve of the new nation that is forming through westward expansion. They were both dealt a lousy lot in life: Dallas' family was slaughtered when she was a kid, and she had to provide for herself in one of the only ways a woman could in that world; and Ringo was a good kid, part of a good family, until his father and brother were killed, and he was sent off to prison. They were dealt a lousy lot in life, but they have good hearts, and that's what counts in this new nation, not their pedigree, not their past, not their social standing. As they ride off to start a new life in the open country, Doc Boone says, "they're freed from the blessings of civilization." The snobby ladies at the beginning of the movie (whom Dallas describes as "worse than Apaches") represent the worse aspects of civilization. The westward expansion and birth of a new nation are, in the view of John Ford, a journey away from that kind of civilization toward a life of wholesome freedom.
Well written!
Excellent synopsis.
That makes sense.
@@behindthescenesphotos5133 The truth of the West and women is hard to decipher. The idea of the movie is that if a woman was on her own she had the choice of respectability ( marriage) or crime( prostitution). The views on prostitution changed with the times and circumstances. Some large companies set up brothels to make sure miners, loggers, or factory workers had safer options and to keep control. The anti white slavery movement grew with its alliance with the powerful Anti Saloon league. The once powerful Anti Saloon league is what the women in the movie represented. It’s hard to imagine how powerful the Anti Saloon league and the anti White Slavery movement was in society. To grasp their power , that’s how Prohibition became law and the shutting down of racy materials became a fabric of America
Great points. In fact, with the exception of Gatewood, all of the main characters on the stagecoach change when Little Coyote is born (there's a bit of a mystery concerning who's really the father, since I doubt a Union officer would leave their pregnant wife alone). The drunken Doc Boone sobers up; Hatfield/Greenfield, a Confederate veteran, supports Boone, an Union veteran, and dies a hero; Sheriff Curley becomes less of a lawman and more of a surrogate father to Ringo; Buck gets less goofy when shot; Peacock reminds himself that he's a father himself.
Dawn Marie: Best Audience Ever!
It wasn't just an early Wayne film, it was his first starring roll.The guy you called Andy was Andy devine, you also saw him in the man who shot liberty valance (cowardly sheriff)and the animated robin hood (friar tuck).He was in a lot of films.
Wayne starred in wany movies before this one, but they were all low budget "B" westerns, except "The Big Trail" (1930), directed by Raoul Walsh.
@@creech54 he appeared in movies before stagecoach, this was his first major breakout role,.
@@staffiedave4033 But not his first starring role.
Yeah!!! Western week!....."Once Upon A Time In The West".
I hope so, I hope so!
Preceded by "My Darling Clementine" to see see Henry Fonda from a couple different perspectives.
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24:22 What I do for actors I know but can't name is go to the Wikipedia entry for the film. By the process of elimination, you can identify the actor.
Claire Trevor also featured in several classic film noirs, including Key Largo (1948), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Born to Kill (1947), and Raw Deal (1948). Her performance in Key Largo nearly outshines Bogart, Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson. She took home the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for it too.
Three westerns you should watch.
1. Last Train from Gun Hill - 1959 starring Kirk Douglas
2. Silver Lode - 1954 starring John Payne
3. ANY western starring Glenn Ford between 1941 and 1973.
As good as this is, the 1966 Remake is SO MUCH BETTER! Alex Cord as Ringo, Van Heflin as Sheriff Curley, Ann Margaret as Dallas, Bing Crosby as Doc, Red Buttons as Peacock, Mike Connors as Hatfield the gambler, Stefanie Powers as Mrs. Mallory, Bob Cummings as Gatewood, Slim Pickens as Buck (stagecoach driver), and Keenan Wynn as Luke Plummer. They're not so shy in that one why Dallas, the dancehall floozy, is being treated poorly. And the acting is a couple notches superior in the '66 remake, not to mention outstanding scenery shot on location.
Andy Devine voiced Friar Tuck in Disney’s Robin Hood (1973). Andy Devine also played Marshal Link Appleyard in ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’ (1962) with John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart.
First great western in my opinion
Arsenic and old lace is one the films you were thinking of I think.
Some western suggestions for you.
The Sons of Katie Elder ,El Dorado, and Rio Bravo with John Wayne are all basically the same movie but all great 😁
Have you done True Grit and Rooster Cogburn yet (Again with Wayne)
You have to do Tombstone!!
Unforgiven
Young Guns
And I'll shoehorn The Last Of The Mohicans into my list 😆
Western movies to watch. MY NAME IS NOBODY, THEY CALL ME TRINITY, TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME.
Mr. Peacock, the whisky salesman, was played by Donald Meek (1878-1946), a Scottish-born (Glasgow) American actor. He did a ton of movies in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. I don't know if you have seen him in another film. It must be in one of the older ones.
The stagecoach driver is Andy Devine, who plays Buck, Thomas Mitchell plays Doc Boone, John Carradine plays Hatfield, Donald Meek plays Peacock, Clair Trevor plays Dallas, Louise Platt plays Mrs. Lucy Mallory and Yakima Canutt plays the Cavalry Scout and an Indian attacking the stagecoach. Dallas was a prostitute being run out of town by the "Law & Order League".
Director John Ford used to work with what could be called on-going company cast in a lot of his movies. John Wayne starred in many (as did Maureen O'Hara, usually as his love interest, or they featured James Stewart or Henry Fonda), along with character actors in this film (like John Carradine, Andy Devine) and others like Ward Bond, Victor McLagen and Barry Fitzgerald. He liked filming on location instead of in studio and one of his favorite places was Monument Valley (Arizona-Utah border) which in no way looks like anywhere in Texas 😉, but it's perfect for films! He tended to hire real Native American actors to portray them on film and he was beloved by the Navaho tribe he employed in Monument Valley over many films. He won 4 Academy Awards for Direction. When Orson Welles was preparing to film "Citizen Kane", his debut masterpiece, he said that he watched "Stagecoach" over 40 times to learn how best direct a movie.
This is my 2nd favorite western The best is The Searchers, also with John Wayne. 2:15 Andy Devine was in Robin Hood (1973), also in It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) as well as A Star Is Born (1937) and a million others. 6:50 I drive by there every time I travel from Arizona to Colorado. That's on the Navajo Nation reservation and never ceases to draw my admiration. They look even better in color!
Russel Crowe in The Quick and the Dead and 3.10 to yuma😢. Also Culpeper Cattle Company. Best.Movies.Ever!
1:45 Thanks for that. You gave me a nice flashback about being at my Grannys after school waiting for Mum to come pick me up. Having tea and watching Black&White TV. Gave me a smile and a small tear or two.
6:50 "Wow..." Indeed. You have no idea how stunning it looked in colour when I was there myself a few years ago. If you ever get a chance to go on holiday in the USA, forget Florida and the other tourist traps. Get to the Grand Canyon / Monument Valley / Southern Utah's National Parks, it's freakin' awesome. Like driving through a geology lesson. And now you've seen a movie or two, you'll be spotting locations used in movies like a professional scout.
16:20 LOL, could've managed without that thought being put into my head. Glad I'm not a girl.
The Hays Code which severely censored movies until 1969 (when the current letter rating system replaced it) was an iron clamp on everything. They couldn't say explicitly that Dallas was a prostitute nor could they use words like "pregnant" for Mrs. Mallory. They couldn't even depict her with an extended stomach. On the other hand, the audience also knew the code and would have picked up on everything.
If you ever get a chance to watch Gone With The Wind, also released in 1939, there is a similar character of ill-repute, Belle Watlings, who also was sweet, but the good ladies of the town simply could not be seen speaking to her. (And the doc in this movie, besides playing Uncle Billy in It's A Wonderful Life, played Scarlett O'hara's father in GWTW.)
Drunk doctor is Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life. Glad you are watching movies from the 1930's. I definitely recommend The Thin Man. It's a comedy/mystery.
You better be watching "Quigley Down Under"(1990)! As a Western Fan who seen every Western Quigley is top 5. Tom Selleck is the picture perfect Cowboy.
"The Big Trail" (1930) starring 23 year old John Wayne is a surprisingly good western you need to catch someday. IMDb gives it a 7.2 rating, and Rotten Tomatoes gave it 100% rating on 9 reviews. Amazon has it at 4.7 out of 5.
The movie that made John Wayne a star....and actor Sophie - Therese ##### Penelope ##John Carradine (suavely dressed one) is father of David Carradine star of 70s tv series Kung Fu. (1939 is considered the best year for classic films).
Often Dawn gives us a surprise, no exception here, thank you my dear
Claire Trevor is excellent in Key Largo, starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore and Edward G. Robinson.
Luke Plummer ,played by Tom Tyler,went on to be the first actor to play Shazam ,Then known as Captain Marvel ,in a 1940s movie serial
Dawn Marie, I had John Wayne walk up to me on San Juan Island Washington State. JW asked me where best place to eat. I gave him bad time about his zodiac rubber rafts, that's my dive boat. JW invited me to visit his yacht wild goose where he takes me I to aft stateroom where I'm face to face with Ben Johnson my dad thinks you're the best horseman in all Hollywood! Not thinking in standing right next to John Wayne. Ben Johnson asked me, who do you think is best Hollywood horseman of all time? You mean, other than you, cause you'd be my first pick! Stateroom cheered! Then I'd say, Glenn Ford sat a saddle as well as anyone! Stateroom cheered again. JW put his arm across my shoulder and toasts my father, "your father is a smart man"! Do you want a tour of the ship? I thought you never ask? An off we went investigating ship from end too end! I told my dive partner, jenny, that I met John Wayne an we need to take him some seafood. We gather lingcod, abolone scallops shrimp, sea bass, etc. I guide my zodiac to JW yacht an Kenny knocked on hull. Who's hanging on my ship? Oh, it's you, pilgrim! We brought you some seafood and Kenny handed up our goodie bag. Days later we are buying cheese in store when he see us. Hey pilgrim, thanks for the seafood! If you have any extra abolone bring them by! Kenny says, spare abolone! An 3 of us laugh! This is my scuba diving partner, Kenny Wayne Smith, he's named after you! Later when John Wayne left us, we could hear him saying to himself, dang, the kids named after me!
This was John Wayne's first top billing movie. This is a top classic western movie. The Professionals, A Few Dollars More, Magnificent 7,
Cat Balou, Are all great westerns, worth watching. Will see which ones you picked.
The Western movie you'll really like the most is "The Angel and the Bad Man", there's developing romance between the 'Bad Man' (John Wayne) and a ('Quaker') girl. A very good movie.
Westerns until this classic were low budget B movies that were mostly shown in secondary theaters and considered for young boys and rural markets.John Wayne has been a singing cowboy and by this film had appeared in over 60 low budget Westerns during the 1930’s. He was Singing Sandy. This movie made him a mainstream star .This movie was the first adult Western with mature themes( for the day) and social commentary. To prepare for making Citizen Kane, Orson Welles watched Stagecoach over 35 times to copy the film style of John Ford. The background use( Ai think it’s Monument Valley?) was stunning to audiences that had never seen the beauty and vastness of the West. John Ford and John Wayne would become synonymous with great Westerns and this was the start. My mother told me that when she saw this in 1939, the audience stirred when John Wayne appears . She told me that going into the movie John Wayne was just another cowboy but by the end, he was a star. All of her high school friends thought he was dreamy. He wasn’t on the level of Gable or Ty Power but he was now a beefcake.