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Auction History Result g412 MIRACLE RIDER linen Chap 3 one-sheet movie poster '35 Tom Mix serial Date Sold 12/19/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Chapter #3 ("The Flying Knife") One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Miracle Rider, the 1935 B. Reeves Eason & Armand Schaefer Native American Indian cowboy western serial ("Sensational 15 episode serial of the Texas Rangers"; "Fifteen thrill-packed episodes with the greatest western star in the history of motion pictures!"; "The greatest western star rides again!"; "A Mascot Master Serial"; Mix is a Texas Ranger who helps Native Americans keep from getting their land stolen, and he is made an honorary chief) starring Tom Mix ("Foremost Western Star in the History of Motion Pictures"; "Idol of every boy in the world!"; "The outstanding Western Star of all time!..."; "His first serial! His greatest picture!"), Tony Jr. (billed as "with Tony, Jr."), Joan Gale, Charles Middleton, Robert Frazer, Niles Welch, Bob Kortman, Tom London, Edmund Cobb, and Charles King. This was basically Tom Mix's final movie after 280 films, and there are many interesting aspects to it. It had a very sympathetic portrayal of Native American Indians and their plight. The movie had ambitions of being an epic, and included scenes with such western legends as Buffalo Bill, Davy Crockett, and Daniel Boone. It also had several of the best known serial and western actors in it, including Charles Middleton, Iron Eyes Cody, and Yakima Canutt, and Olympic champion Jim Thorpe had a minor role! Note that Tom Mix had been the number one silent cowboy star, and that he had continued making westerns until 1929. Note that it has been said that Tom Mix's horse Tony (who co-starred with him in all those many silent movies) was the greatest horse ever in westerns (apparently he could untie knots with his teeth and he would run INTO burning buildings, something no other horse would do). He was in all of Mix's movies until Mix retired in 1929, Mix came out of retirement in 1932 and made five movies, all with "Tony Jr.", and then he retired again. If anyone knows more about why Tony stopped making movies in 1929 or about Tony Jr., and whether he was really Tony's son, 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. Important Added Info: Note that this poster has a great inset image of Tom Mix riding Tony Jr. (the original Tony had either retired or passed on) and roping a bad guy! Condition: good to very good. The poster was folded oddly with two evenly spaced vertical foldlines. There was paper loss at each crossfold and some creases and tiny tears on some foldlines. There had been tape on the back of the lower half of the left vertical foldline which had slightly bled through to the front. The borders of the poster were somewhat tattered. There were some scuffs around the edges of the image, including one long one in Mix's face at top left and some scuffs in the blue collar area. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed. The restorer did not attempt to make the poster look "perfect", but they did enough restoration that the unrestored defects and the restoration that they did do is not very distracting. The person who did the restoration put new blank white paper over all the borders to even out the appearance (but the small writing at the bottom of the poster was not covered over). This is a common technique used by several top restorers. It is done so well that the majority of collectors are not even aware it has been done, and many do not feel it to be a significant detraction (since it is only blank white area). When you look at the poster close up, you can see the defects and the restoration it has had, but from any distance away, it displays pretty nicely! Learn More about condition grades 
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