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Auction History Result j043 AFTER MIDNIGHT /MOCKERY local theater window card '27 Date Sold 1/9/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Local Theater Window Card Movie Poster (measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) the 1927 poster advertising two movies showing at a theater in a single week: After Midnight, the 1927 Monta Bell silent romantic crime melodrama ("from the story by Monta Bell"; about a cigarette girl who meets a crook, and tries to rehabilitate him, but she gets discouraged and she decides to emulate her gold-digging sister, but then she gets drunk and is in a car crash with her sister, and the sister is killed, and that sobers her up and she and her ex-con boyfriend see the light and decide to start over and live a righteous life) starring Norma Shearer, Lawrence Gray, Gwen Lee, Eddie Sturgis, and Philip Sleeman AND Mockery, the 1927 Benjamin Christensen silent Russian Revolution romantic love triangle melodrama (a really unusual story, where Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant living in Siberia at the start of the Russian Revolution; he helps a woman who promises to greatly improve his situation in life, and after he does, only after being brutally beaten, he learns she is a Countess; he helps her back to the palace, where she "rewards" him by making him an assistant in the kitchen!; she has a boyfriend who is a Captain in the White Army, and Chaney lusts after her; when the Revolution occurs, he thinks he is now "her equal", and he attempts to rape her, but he is stopped, and the Countess speaks well of him and saves his life, telling the soldiers that he has been loyal!) starring Lon Chaney Sr., Barbara Bedford, Ricardo Cortez, Mack Swain, and Emily Fitzroy. Note that this movie clearly owes a great debt to Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", as the theme of the story is extremely similar! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this window card was created by a local theater (the "Loewe's Orpheum"), for the movies they were showing that week, one of which was an early Lon Chaney movie, from which almost no posters survive! Condition: good. Note that there is substantial paper loss on the card and that it is in MUCH, MUCH lesser condition! It has been lightly glued to a board backing in just a couple of places (it could be easily removed). Please do not bid on this card unless you can accept its great defects or are willing to have them restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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