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Route 66 in Kingman Arizona bears the name Andy Devine Avenue in honor of the town's most famous resident. Kingman also celebrates Andy Devine Days in October each year.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe steam engine #3759 was presented to the town of Kingman, Arizona in 1957 by the Santa Fe Railroad. It is on display in Locomotive Park.

It's a fair drive to visit Grand Canyon West from Flagstaff or Las Vegas. Kingman, AZ and nearby towns have a range of hotels and motels with easy access to the Skywalk.

John Ford and Dudley Nichols' work to craft the screenplay of Stagecoach (1939) focused on psychological character studies as the base of the first modern western film.

The common folk in Ford's Stagecoach contrast with the more flamboyant characters who are featured in the film, providing a more down-to-earth feel for movie audiences.

The character study of the Ringo Kid is key to John Ford's noble outlaw motif in this classic western movie- and it's the breakthrough role that made John Wayne a star.

The Searchers was named the number one Western movie of all time by the American Film Institute. Westerns are films set in the American West.

Stagecoach is widely seen as one of the best westerns and most important films made. Critics praise it for its rich drama and artful photography of Monument Valley.

Turner Classic Movies' Forbidden Hollywood, Vol. 3 is devoted to early sound films of William Wellman -- and the final three of six features are the cream of the box set.

The respectable-seeming characters in the film Stagecoach are flawed individuals whose social prejudice lacks compassion and violates the frontier mythos of equality.

The non-respectable characters in Ford's Stagecoach come in two forms: (1) the villains and (2) the merely disreputable ones who find the journey a quest for redemption.