(lindsay anderson) ford had been a director for over twenty years.nd had learned how to work with actors, get performances and to achieve reality in terms of character. i watched you with that baby, that other woman's baby. it looked, well.... well, i still got a ranch across the border. and it's a nice place. a real nice place. trees and grass and water. there's a cabin, half-built. a man could live there... with a woman. will you go? but you don't know me. you don't know who i am. i know all i want to know. (lindsay anderson) dialogue is important, but there are many sequences in "stagecoach," which are purely told through the image. particularly, say, the final chase. (gunfire) (lindsay anderson) a very interesting sequence. it disobeys all the rules. there's no left to right, and right to left. i mean, they're all going every which way. and it actually doesn't matter. (gunfire) orson welles saw "stagecoach" many times to learn how to tell a story through the camera. (dramatic music playing) (gunshot) (screams in the background) well, the western