The Last Stagecoach West

The Last Stagecoach West is a 1957 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Jim Davis, Mary Castle, Victor Jory and Lee Van Cleef.

In the early 1950s Republic Pictures decided to begin producing television shows and filmed a pilot for what became Stories of the Century.

A few years later that pilot was reedited, and released as The Last Stagecoach West, which differs greatly from the syndicated television series.

After a series of train robberies railroad detective Bill Cameron is sent to investigate, but the local telegraph operator intercepts a message about his coming, and shares it with the outlaws.

The rider is Rand McCord and, before he dies, he confesses to his daughter that he organized the outlaws to steal from the railroad what he thought had been stolen from him.