Just one year after making Stagecoach, John Wayne and John Ford teamed up for a now-overlooked gem with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Were it not for the efforts of Enos “Yakima” Canutt (1895-1986), John Ford’s “Stagecoach” (1939) might be less than what it is — that is to say, a masterwork of American cinema — and would not be on ...