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Auction History Result 7x263 MOUNTAINS OF MANHATTAN linen 1sh '27 cool stone litho of lovers amid the skyline of New York! Date Sold 6/7/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Mountains of Manhattan, the 1927 James P. Hogan silent New York City boxing sports architecture romantic family relationship orphan Jewish/Irish melodrama ("A drama of love, ambition and inspiration amid the sky line of New York"; "A stellar cast"; "A drama of the world's greatest skyline"; about a young Jewish boy who is adopted by an Irish mother in Manhattan, and he grows up wanting to be an architect, and apparently he must win a prizefight to attain his dream and to win the heart of his girlfriend) starring Dorothy Devore, Charles Delaney, Kate Price, Robert Gordon, and George Chesebro. Note that this movie is somewhat of a mystery. We found one plot summary talking about the "Mountains of Manhattan" (referring to the skyscrapers) and talking about the would-be architect/engineer wanting to build them. Based on that, it sounds extremely similar to Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead", which would be written just a few years later, and this movie was likely seen by Rand. But in a newspaper ad we saw a reference to the Irish mother adopting a Jewish orphan, which was a cliche plot of this time, and on the U.S. posters, you see the hero and heroine standing on a girder suspended high above Manhattan, but on the Belgian poster, you see a boxing scene, another cliche of movies like this at this time! If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny bits of paper loss in the vertical fold between the top and bottom crossfolds and in the left half of the top horizontal fold. It had minor wear on the other folds. It had a small area of paper loss in the upper left blank border and one in the lower right blank border. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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