Stagecoach (1939)

Actors: George Bancroft (actor), Frank Baker (actor), Ted Billings (actor), Danny Borzage (actor), Ed Brady (actor), Chief John Big Tree (actor), John Carradine (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Steve Clemente (actor), Bill Cody (actor), Jack Curtis (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Tex Driscoll (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor),

Plot: A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.

Keywords: afi, ambush, apache, banker, birth, brunette, cavalry, chase, childbirth, colt-.45
Genres: Adventure, Western,
Taglines: Danger holds the reins as the devil cracks the whip ! Desperate men ! Frontier women ! Rising above their pasts in a West corrupted by violence and gun-fire ! Thrills! Thrills! Thrills! See - The Apache Attack! Charge of the Cavalry! Fight to the Death On the Last Frontier of Wickedness! A Powerful Story of 9 Strange People!

Quotes:

Henry, the Ringo Kid: Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

Dallas: Well, you gotta live no matter what happens.

Marshal Curly Wilcox: Come busting in here - you'd think we were being attacked! You can find another wife.::Chris: Sure I can find another wife. But she take my rifle and my horse. Oh, I'll never sell her. I love her so much. I beat her with a whip and she never get tired.::Dr. Josiah Boone: Your wife?::Chris: No, my horse. I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that!

Ringo Kid: Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Ringo Kid: You may need me and this Winchester, Curly. Saw a ranch house burnin' last night.

[the telegraph breaks off in mid-message]::Capt. Sickel: Well? What's wrong?::Telegraph operator: The line went dead, sir.::Capt. Sickel: What have you got here?::Telegraph operator: Only the first word, sir.::Capt. Sickel: (reading) Geronimo.

[Lt. Blanchard has just informed the stagecoach occupants that the cavalry will not escort them to Lordsburg]::Marshal Curly Wilcox: This stage is going to Lordsburg. If you think it ain't safe to ride along with us, I figure we can get there without you soldier boys.

Henry Gatewood: So you're the notorious Ringo Kid.::The Ringo Kid: My friends just call me Ringo - nickname I had as a kid. Right name's Henry.

The Ringo Kid: That was my kid brother that broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you were drunk.::Dr. Josiah Boone: Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing.

Marshal Curly Wilcox: Now folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. We got four men who can handle firearms - five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot if sober.