FACTORY SEALED BLURAY (region 1)

"STAGECOACH"

GENUINE CRITERION COPY


-New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

-Audio commentary by western authority Jim Kitses

-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 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 Ford, downloadable as an MP3 file

-Theatrical trailer

-Subtitles

PLUS: An essay by David Cairns and, for the Blu-ray edition, Ernest Haycox's "Stage to Lordsburg," the short story that inspired the film

New cover by Eric Skillman