Sunday, April 28, 2013

"Stagecoach" (1939)

Western. Opening credits advertise music based on American folk songs--"I'm leaving Cheyenne", "I'm going to leave old Texas now" "I dream of the Jeannie with the light brown hair" are some of the ones I remember catching, but I'm sure that's not all of them. Story has a major theme of social class tensions in it. Also plays with questions of right and wrong--at least a little. The black cat was a nice touch. This is the John Wayne movie with the Apache who is shot off a lead pair of horses (of 3 pair) and is driven over by the stagecoach. Music was nice, yes. Nice flesh and blood characters.

No comments:

Post a Comment