Stagecoach

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $8.95

Stock #:235682
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
City: Hollywood
State: California (CA)
County: Los Angeles
Publisher: The Maximum Card Collection
Postmark: 1990 Mar-23
Postmark City: Hollywood
Postmark State: CA
Stamp: 25c
Size: 4" x 5.75" (10.25 x 15 cm)

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No.90-12. 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 superbly played by John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell, George Bancroft, Berton Churchill, John Carradine, Donald Meek and others--all splendidly photographed 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, serious, action-packed films

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