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Stagecoach (1939) is one of the greatest westerns ever made. Though its plot is very simple, strangers board a stagecoach traveling across the new-mexico frontier and fight with Native Americans, it manages to be an incredibly effective and moving film.

It's is often credited with single-handedly reviving the western after it plummeted from popularity in the early 30, and while that’s only partially true, the film has stood the test of time as one of the most influential westerns ever made and so it begs the question, what exactly made Stagecoach so great, and what can it tell us about the function and form of genre cinema?

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