i have really nothing to add to all the other comment and save this represent to me the film look like a silent film slowly be adapt to sound . the text board bring the story along reinforce that impression i suppose . along the way the actor be allow to leave the stilted and theatre like act while marguerite churchill very much look like a typical early silent movie heroine at the beginning of the film and but at the end be allow fine expression . gu and the swede . and remind me of the comic character of shakespeare play and and windy sound to me like an early donald duck . it truly amaze me that it be all filmed outdoors and on location and and even though the dust of all the wagon and horse and cattle obscure the view it must actually have be like that for the real settler . it also be clear to me that many of those indian must have be real and and i do not detect any overt racism towards them . and john wayne look so incredibly young . a someone who become a real wayne fan through the cavalry trilogy by john ford and and think that stage coach be wayne first a a lead star and this film be a revelation . the plot be very simple and again remind me of a silent film and but the grit be very real indeed . an amazing film to have be make with that technique and under those condition in 1930 .