Cons: can't hold a candle to the original 1939 film
After MGM came a cropper in 1960 trying to film a new widescreen color remake of a classic 1930s western with Cimarron, one might think 20th Century Fox would have used their example and stayed far away from another 1930s classic oater Stagecoach. No such luck. The 1966 remake brought everything to the table it could: Cinemascope, color, and a raft of stars both vintage and newly formed, and it stayed as close to the original story as it was possible to stay while adding a bit more explicit violence and sex appeal. Still, it just didn’t work. Audiences of the time weren’t interested in revisiting one of the classic John Ford westerns tinkered with by other hands.
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