Women and Relationships between Men and Women Describing how the film deals with this topic is part of your Unit 1 response. The Apaches, as we have seen, are depicted as a threatening aspect of the environment, as lacking in comprehensible human feelings as a lightning storm. The unseen but overabundant in-laws of the stage driver, himself a comic figure, are another example. The picture clearly and uncritically mirrors the attitudes of the time in this respect as in others. Conclusion Stagecoach is a reflection of its time in many ways.
Authority is recognized.
The sheriff is a positive figure. The cavalry saves the day. But authority has limits. The sheriff can't be unsympathetic to the outlaw hero. The cavalry can't be everywhere.