According to copyright records, portions of Stage to Tucson (1950) were shot on location in Lone Pine, CA.
Stage to Tucson (1950) is a 1950 American Western film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Robert Creighton Williams, Frank Burt and Robert Libott. It is based on the 1948 novel "Lost Stage Valley" by Frank Bonham. The film stars Rod Cameron, Wayne Morris, Kay Buckley, Sally Eilers, Carl Benton Reid and Roy Roberts. The film was released in December 1950, by Columbia Pictures and remade by them as The Phantom Stagecoach (1957), reusing extensive footage from the earlier film and changing it from Technicolor to black and white.
The Phantom Stagecoach (1957) reuses extensive footage from the Columbia Technicolor Western Stage to Tucson (1950), with a very similar story-line.