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Auction History Result s001 DRAKE CASE one-sheet movie poster '29 great stone litho pointing hand! Date Sold 5/8/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Drake Case, the 1929 Edward Laemmle courtroom murder mystery crime thriller ("HEAR every word of the sensational testimony"; "A Universal 100% Talking Picture"; "story by Charles Logue"; about a maid who is accused of murdering the woman she works for) starring Gladys Brockwell, Forrest Stanley, Robert Frazer, Barbara Leonard, James Crane, and Doris Lloyd (in the title role as Mr. Drake). Note that this movie was made in both a sound and a silent version, and the sound version is lost, but the silent version survives, and this was sadly star Gladys Brockwell's last film, as she died two weeks after the film was completed. Also note that director Edward Laemmle has been largely forgotten by film history, but he has a VERY interesting biography! He is the nephew of Carl Laemmle, who persuaded him to leave his electrical engineering career in 1915 and join him at his recently opened Universal Studios. He started as an assistant director, mainly under John Ford. In 1917, he went to New Guinea to produce a movie about the natives there, and was shipwrecked, and spent two years among the Kia Kia cannibals! This adventure was re-created in the movie "Shipwrecked Among Cannibals", which became the first million dollar movie for Universal Studios. Edward Laemmle went on to direct roughly 50 movies, and had many famous assistants, including William Wyler! 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 the very first time we have ever sold a poster on this very early sound movie (we have sold three single lobby cards). Posters from the earliest sound movies are extremely rare, likely because those movies were so popular that the posters were used and re-used, and few survive! Condition: very good. The poster was folded in half an extra time. There is the tiniest of separation at some crossfolds and a 1" tear to the right of the "E" of "UNIVERSAL" at bottom left, just extending into the bottom of the "R". Other than these very minor defects, the poster is in really wonderful condition (the paper has barely aged!) and it is hard to believe that the poster is nearly 80 years old! The poster is completely unrestored, and has never had any tape on either the front or the back! Learn More about condition grades 
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