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Westchester Films
Directed by: John Ford
This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list and establishing the genre as we know it today. The quintessential tale of a group of strangers thrown together into extraordinary circumstances, Stagecoach features outstanding performances from Hollywood stalwarts Claire Trevor, John Carradine, and Thomas Mitchell, and, of course, John Wayne, in his first starring role for Ford, as the daredevil outlaw the Ringo Kid. Superbly shot and tightly edited, Stagecoach (Ford’s first trip to Monument Valley) is Hollywood storytelling at its finest.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Feature Film, Interview, Video Essay, Radio Program, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet, MP3
- Audio commentary by western authority Jim Kitses (Horizons West)
- Bucking Broadway, a 1917 silent feature by John Ford, with new music composed and performed by Donald Sosin
- Journalist and television presenter Philip Jenkinson’s extensive 1968 video interview with John Ford
- New video appreciation of Stagecoach, with director and Ford biographer Peter Bogdanovich
- New video interview with Ford’s grandson, Dan Ford about the director and his home movies
- New video piece, featuring journalist Buzz Bissinger, about trader Harry Goulding’s key role in bringing Monument Valley to Hollywood
- New video homage to legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt, with celebrated stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong
- Video essay by writer Tag Gallagher analyzing Ford’s visual style in Stagecoach
- Screen Director’s Playhouse 1949 radio dramatization of Stagecoach, with John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and John Ford
- Downloadable MP3 version of Screen Director’s Playhouse 1949 radio dramatization of Stagecoach
- Theatrical trailer
- A booklet featuring a new essay by David Cairns and Ernest Haycox’s “Stage to Lordsburg,” the short story that inspired the film
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Release Credits
Producer: Curtis Tsui
Artwork: Eric Skillman
Release Notes on Restoration
Stagecoach
Stagecoach is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and the right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. For the DVD edition, the picture has been slightly window-boxed to ensure that the maximum image is visible on all monitors.
The original negative for Stagecoach has been considered lost for decades. For this edition, we evaluated several of the best surviving prints, both restored and original, before we found the 1942 nitrate duplicate negative that showed exceptional detail, gray scale, and clarity. We chose it as the primary source for this new high-definition digital transfer, created on a Spirit 2K Datacine, because we believed it was the best surviving film material of Stagecoach. For safety, a new 35mm fine-grain master positive was made from the negative as preservation.
Inevitably, certain defects remain. The picture suffered from thousands of blended-in scratches and debris, especially around reel changes and in action sequences. In cases where the damage was not fixable without leaving tracks of our restoration work, we elected to leave the original damage. Through hundreds of hours of restoration work, we’ve manually removed the worst of the damage, along with dirt, splices, warps jitter, and clicker, using MTI’s DRS system and Pixel Farm’s PFClean system, while Digital Vision’s DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction. Additional restoration was performed with the help of Reliance Mediaworks and its proprietary software.
The monaural soundtrack was mastered from multiple track elements, including soundtrack negatives and prints. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.
The original negative for Stagecoach has been considered lost for decades. For this edition, we evaluated several of the best surviving prints, both restored and original, before we found the 1942 nitrate duplicate negative that showed exceptional detail, gray scale, and clarity. We chose it as the primary source for this new high-definition digital transfer, created on a Spirit 2K Datacine, because we believed it was the best surviving film material of Stagecoach. For safety, a new 35mm fine-grain master positive was made from the negative as preservation.
Inevitably, certain defects remain. The picture suffered from thousands of blended-in scratches and debris, especially around reel changes and in action sequences. In cases where the damage was not fixable without leaving tracks of our restoration work, we elected to leave the original damage. Through hundreds of hours of restoration work, we’ve manually removed the worst of the damage, along with dirt, splices, warps jitter, and clicker, using MTI’s DRS system and Pixel Farm’s PFClean system, while Digital Vision’s DVNR system was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction. Additional restoration was performed with the help of Reliance Mediaworks and its proprietary software.
The monaural soundtrack was mastered from multiple track elements, including soundtrack negatives and prints. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.