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Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman (released in Spain as "Buffalo Bill"), the classic 1936 Cecil B. DeMille poker gambling romantic cowboy western epic ("The raging story of the Frontier... and the daring men and women who smashed it down! Romance! Spectacle!! Drama!!!"; "The valiant story of a nation's heroes... Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, General Custer who lived recklessly... dangerously... to mold an empire out of prairies... to build cities on a range!"; a combination of all the legends about Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, and Wild Bill Hickok, including Hickok's death while gambling at poker and holding the "dead man's hand", aces and eights) starring Gary Cooper (as "Wild Bill Hickok"), Jean Arthur (as "Calamity Jane"), James Ellison (as "Buffalo Bill Cody"), Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess, and Porter Hall (as Jack McCall, the man who shot Hickok in the back). Note that Native American Indian Chief Thunder Bird was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to be the technical advisor on the movie so that the Native Americans would be authentic!
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster was printed by the "Globe Poster Corp." of Chicago. In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, The Globe Poster Corp., etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. In the case of this company, they also made jumbo window cards (or in the case of this window card, one that measures 17" x 26")! It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released (this poster has "SAT. JAN. 16" on it, which fell in 1937, indicating it is from the continuous first release that carried into 1937).

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