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MOUNTAINS OF MANHATTAN MOUNTAINS OF MANHATTAN Argentinean OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3t755 MOUNTAINS OF MANHATTAN Argentinean 14x28 '27 men fight on building over New York! Date Sold 1/10/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Argentinean Movie Poster (measures 14 1/4" x 29" [36 x 74 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. Artist: Segura Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a remarkable find of 143 Argentinean posters from 1926 to 1929 that were recently discovered! They all measure approximately 14 1/4" x 28 1/4", which was one of the two main sizes created for Argentinean movie posters at that time (the other was a poster that measured 29" x 43"). It is likely that prior to this amazing find, there were only a small number of these posters known to exist in the entire world, and after these 143 are auctioned, it is unlikely that there will be many more discovered, even over the coming decades! This is a rare opportunity to purchase an Argentinean poster from the late 1920s, a time when virtually no movie posters from any country are known to exist! Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. There are a few minor patches of slight discoloration scattered in various areas (more so along the foldlines), typical of Argentinean posters of this time period. It is otherwise in pretty nice condition and it displays well. Learn More about condition grades 
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