Stagecoach

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STAGECOACH TWOOD SA 25 23 1990 90028 770H

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STAGECOACH First Day of Issue: March 23, 1990 First Issue Location: Hollywood, California With his marvelous 1939 western, Stagecoach, director John Ford ended the ten years of jerky artifice that had been “the talkies." This intricate, brilliantly-directed, action-packed adventure allowed audiences to gallop recklessly across the Apache-menaced plains of Arizona alongside well-developed and complex characters su- perbly played by John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, Berton Churchill, John Car- radine, Donald Meek and others — all splendidly photo- graphed by Bert Glennon. It is a story of the relationships among passengers during an angst-ridden stagecoach journey punctuated by an Indian attack by Geronimo and his fearsome band, the impending birth of a baby, and a shootout between outlaw Ringo Kid — played by John Wayne — and the evil Plummer boys. Though similar plots had graced the big screen, none had been brought to life the way Stagecoach was. It demonstrated that westerns could simultaneously be timeless, attractive, se- rious, action-packed films. No. 90-12 ©1990 The Maximum Card Collection A Division of Unicover Corporation . Cheyenne, WY 82008-0007 Original painting by Tom McNeely STAGECOACH ©1939 Walter Wanger Productions, Inc., © renewed 1967 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. The image, likeness, and name and certain other publicity rights of the actor John Wayne are used with permission of their owner, Wayne Enterprises, Inc., represented by The Roger Richman Agency, Inc.