First Friday Film Festival
We know you're sad to hear that our host Henry is taking the month of April off from his labor of love with the Film Festival. It can't be helped, but see below the treat he has for us in May!
Friday, May 7, 2010
Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. (Note - Ernest Haycox is the father of Jean King's friend Ernie Haycox.) The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory. Although Ford had made many westerns in the silent film era, he had never directed a sound western. Between 1929–1939, he directed films of almost every other genre, including Wee Willie Winkie (1937) starring Shirley Temple. Stagecoach was to be his first sound western and the first of many that Ford made on location in Monument Valley, in the American southwest on the Arizona-Utah border, many of which also starred John Wayne.
Film information from Wikipedia.
$6 for dinner, film free. Child care available with RSVP.