eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5p117 MOUNTAINS OF MANHATTAN linen pre-War Belgian '27 stone litho of boxer & would-be architect! Date Sold 3/3/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 24 1/4" x 31" [62 x 79 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a rare "pre-War" Belgian poster. Prior to World War II, Belgian posters were much larger than the ones from after the war, and they are extremely rare (because during WWII, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and they took virtually every poster and map, and printed new posters on the backs of them!). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had very minor wear on the foldlines and some small tears and smudges around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting (and a talented restorer could touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades
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