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STAGECOACH
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1990
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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.