eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5c0359 BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE pressbook 1937 Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce, color poster images, rare! Date Sold 7/23/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" [35 x 50 cm]; 14 pages). Also included are 2 ad supplements that have one page and 6 pages, and also a herald that has 2 pages. (Learn More) The Bad Man of Brimstone (released in France as "Arizona Bill"), the 1937 J. Walter Ruben boxing sports romantic outlaw cowboy western ("'I think I'm going to like it here'"; "The greatest romance of the West since 'The Covered Wagon'!"; "Screen play by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum"; "Original story by J. Walter Ruben and Maurice Rapf"; about an outlaw whose son becomes a boxer, and the son will only give up boxing if his father stops being an outlaw, which he does, but a rival outlaw threatens his son's life, and the outlaw must take justice into his own hands to save his own son) starring Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce, Dennis O'Keefe, Joseph Calleia, Lewis Stone, Guy Kibbee, Noah Beery, and Raymond Hatton. Note that Wallace Beery pretty much made a living in the 1930s playing "good bad guys" (people on the wrong side of the law or who didn't fit in, but who had a heart of gold). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: fair to good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. This particular pressbook was folded across the middle and there is wear and tiny surface paper loss on that fold. There are some stains around the edges of the cover. Learn More about condition grades
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