Apocalypse Now, Air Cavalry Death Card

original movie prop

rom the set of Coppola's Vietnam war masterpiece, comes this prop playing card. Echoing the real-life death cards that were said to have been left on dead Viet Cong by Air Cavalry during the Vietnam war. In the film "Colonel Kilgore" (Robert Duvall) marks enemy's bodies by throwing Death cards with the emblem of his Air Cavalry Regiment. Consisting of 2.25 x 3.5 in. standard playing card with lightning bolt through a red and black shield with horse head silhouette design. Above is a banner reading, "Death From Above". With a flamboyant Joker designed printed on the recto and marked in blue ink at upper right, "AT".