Stagecoach

The NBC Theater presents... ...Stream Director's Guild Assignment, Production Stagecoach, Director John Ford, Stars John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Ward Bond. This is the Screen Director's Guild production of the United Artists Motion Picture Classic Stagecoach, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and Ward Bond, and introducing the director of the film, John Ford.

Before we begin our story, Here are a few words about the entertainment you will hear tonight and in future weeks at this time. The NBC Theater is proud to welcome the president of the Screen Directors Guild and the eminent director of such films as Variety Girl, The Parals of Pauline and Tap Roots.

Mr. George Marshall. Thank you, and good evening. This is the first performance of a series of Screen Directors Guild productions in which the directors will personally bring you their favorite film assignments, along with the stars who created the original roles.

Tonight your director is John Ford. John, if you remember, is the winner of five Academy Awards. The guiding hand behind such great pictures as the informer. How green was my valley? And of course, stagecoach.

You're on this at John. Thank you, John. And good luck in our first production. Stagecoach is ready to roll. The last time I made that crack was about ten years ago. I first had the opportunity of putting on film as romance to the West.

For the cast, the picture offers an array of colorful character types, ripe for the act as talents. Now the story in the cast, I united again. Here is Stagecoach with John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, Claire Trevor as Dallas and Ward Bond as Doc Boone.

In 1885, the Stagecoach was the only means of travel of travel on the American frontier. And in those days, no names struck more dread into the hearts of travelers in Geronimo, leader of the warlike Apaches. This folks is a story of a party of people who travel from Tonto to Lordsburg by stagecoach in 1885. It's a