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Auction History Result 3j0246 DEVIL AT HIS ELBOW linen 1sh 1916 man almost loses everything to alcohol, cool art, very rare! Date Sold 2/18/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 42" [72 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) The Devil at his Elbow, the 1916 Burton L. King silent World War I (WWI) alcoholism temperance romantic love triangle melodrama ("A photo-play of to-day by Aaron Hoffmann"; a wild early anti-alcohol movie; an engineer must finish a new submarine needed by the government in just a few days, and he gets the strange idea that drinking day and night will make him more productive, and his fiancee warns him that he is wrong, and then he passes out at work, and has a dream that he is still working on the submarine, and that he leaves his fiancee and takes up with a prostitute, and then the submarine is finished and it sinks, and he blames the prostitute, and he tries to kill her, and just then, he wakes up and realizes how wrong he has been and swears off drinking forever and marries his fiancee!) starring Dorothy Green, Clifford Bruce, Francis McDonald, Adolphe Menjou, and Edward Martindel. Note that this is one of a number of rabid anti-alcohol movies made in the 1910s, all of which led to the disastrous decision to enact a nationwide prohibition in 1919, which did not reduce the amount of drinking at all, but simply criminalized it! 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single poster or lobby card from this movie until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/4" x 42" [72 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had an irregular shaped area of paper loss in the upper right green background area, entering the edge of the curtain, with some tears coming off of the paper loss. There were two areas of paper loss in the top border that extended into the top of some of the letters of "METRO PICTURES". There was a long tear running from the upper left border, through the man's shirt and sleeve, through his hand and into the curtain. There were some tears and small paper loss in the bottom credits area and some tears and pl around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely restored by a talented restorer. You can see signs of the above defects when you look at the poster close up, but from any reasonable viewing distance, it displays quite well, although you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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