Stagecoach

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

Guest host Keith Carradine introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

Robert Osborne Introduces Stagecoach, 1939.

Keith Carradine is the host for TCM's Shane: Plus 100 More Great Westerns, every Tuesday and Wednesday in July.

Andy Devine and George Bancroft up top, the ladies (Louise Platt as Mrs. Mallory, Claire Trevor as Dallas), John Carradine as gambler Hatfield, John Wayne as semi-fugitive Ringo, all bearing up as best they can as they move into Apache territory, in John Ford’s Stagecoach, 1939.

Ringo (John Wayne) is hesitant but firm as he makes an unexpected offer in a famous speech to Dallas (Claire Trevor) in John Ford's Stagecoach, 1939.

TCM's Original Promo for July, 2009 programming celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Hollywood's Greatest Year, 1939.

Ne'er-do-wells Dallas (Claire Trevor) and Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell) cross paths with liquor peddler Peacock (Donald Meek) as they're being ejected from town in an early scene from John Ford's Stagecoach, 1939.

Technically a fugitive, the "Ringo Kid" (John Wayne) is introduced in famous fashion by director John Ford, driver Buck (Andy Devine) and sheriff Curley (George Bancroft) leading the group (Thomas Mitchell, Berton Churchill, Donald Meek, Claire Trevor, John Carradine et al), into Indian territory, in Stagecoach, 1939.