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Auction History Result 4d0280 DEVIL IS DRIVING 1sh 1937 classic colorful art of crazed couple driving at high speed, rare! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Devil is Driving, the 1937 Harry Lachman romantic drunken driving crime action thriller ("Chilling thrills run riot!"; "Flaming youth in a thrill-a-second sensation!"; "Thrill sensation of the hour!"; "Arousing you to a white hot pitch of fighting fury!"; "A nation rises in its mighty wrath... to crush America's newest public enemies!"; "Makes your heart stand still with excitement!"; about a son of a rich man who keeps driving drunk, and he uses his father's influence to get him out of every jam, and then he kills an old lady while driving drunk, and his father helps him yet again, but the District Attorney who has helped the father get his son out of jams realizes the error of his ways, and teams up with a beautiful newspaper reporter to see that justice is done) starring Richard Dix (as District Attorney Paul Driscoll), Joan Perry (as the female reporter), Nana Bryant, Ian Wolfe, Arthur Loft, Charles C. Wilson, Robert Emmett Keane, and Elisha Cook Jr. (in his first major role after a handful of minor appearances, as the rich son who keeps driving drunk; he went on to appear in over 200 movies, often playing roles similar to this one!). Note that Joan Perry had been a former model who was discovered by Columbia head Harry Cohn. He put her in a bunch of movies, and then married her, and in 1941, she retired. 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 we have only previously auctioned two examples of this poster (with its wonderful image, title, and tagline). The first time was in 1991, when it sold for $1,760, and the second time was in 2008, when it sold for $2,300. Now we are auctioning it a third time, a dozen years later, and it may be a dozen or more years before we auction another one! Condition: good to very good. The poster has tiny separation at the top two crossfolds and 1" of separation and tiny paper loss at the bottom crossfold. It has many tiny pinholes and creases around the edges. It has some separation and tiny paper loss in the left of the bottom fold. It has a partial extra horizontal fold at a slight diagonal above the top fold. It has the title of the movie written twice on the back of the bottom quarter of the vertical fold, and it slightly bleeds through to the front. Someone put tape on the back of the bottom 4" of the vertical fold, where there was separation, but otherwise, no restoration was done. If I owned this wonderful poster, I would surely immediately send it to the very best restorer, because after proper restoration, it will display incredibly, and require only tiny amounts of paint restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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