eMoviePoster.com
Auction History Result 4d042 S.O.S. ICEBERG REPRO pressbook '33 Leni Riefenstahl's U.S. version of the German movie! Date Sold 1/29/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1933 REPRODUCTION Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17" x 21 3/4" [43 x 55 cm]; 9 pages; see below for more) (Learn More) S.O.S. Iceberg (released in a German language version as "S.O.S. Eisberg"; see the end of this entry for more on this), the 1933 Tay Garnett German/U.S. Greenland airplane aviation plane crash disaster adventure thriller ("TRAPPED!"; "TRAPPED on a crumbling iceberg in the heart of the Arctic with five desperate men, a beautiful, cultured woman learned that savagery still exists... That hunger, cold and fear were but fuel to primitive emotion!"; "See staggering drama roaring out of the Arctic!"; "See an expedition - lost at top of the world, drifting to doom on an iceberg - food supply gone - their wireless smashed - fighting each other to survive!"; "See a girl on a rescue flight crash into a wall of ice!"; "See the birth of an iceberg!"; "See the fall to death between ice crags!"; "See man facing beast in terrific battle for life!"; based on the real life story of the Wegener polar expedition of 1929-30, in which most of the people died, and this movie imagines that a female aviator, based on Amelia Earhart, and played by Riefenstahl, flies a plane to try to rescue them and crashes into an iceberg, stranding her along with the members of the expedition, and native Eskimos paddle to them in kayaks and rescue them!) starring Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl (movie actress who became a director for Hitler and made "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympiad"), Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, and Max Holzboer. Note that there is both this English language version and also a German language version of this movie that were filmed at the exact same time. The main difference between the two versions is that Tay Garnett directed the English language version, which starred Rod La Rocque, and that Arnold Fanck directed the German language version, which starred Gustav Diessl, but Leni Riefenstahl and most of the other cast members appeared in both versions. Other movies from around this time had both German and English language versions, most notably "The Blue Angel". The rise to power of the Nazi party (and their policies) brought an end to these co-productions. Also note that Arnold Fanck was a German director who loved skiing and made many "mountain films" that included skiing sequences. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a very unusual item! As noted above, there was both a U.S. version of this movie and a German version, both starring Leni Riefenstahl. Items from the U.S. release are incredibly rare. This is NOT the first release U.S. pressbook, but it IS quite likely that it was made in the 1930s, as a reproduction! We have seen this on several other 1930s movies. What we believe happened is that the poster exchanges ran out of pressbooks, and they made their own black & white copies on single-sided copy paper, and then sent those to theaters who wanted the pressbook. We can't say this is 100% certainly true, but we think it is the only reasonable explanation. Since we have never seen this pressbook otherwise, this is a wonderful opportunity to see the U.S. posters for this movie, most of which surely are not known to exist. Condition: good, NO CUTS. As noted above, this is a REPRODUCTION pressbook that we believe was created in 1933 when the regular pressbooks ran out. There are stains on the cover and creases around the edges (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT) |
|||||||||||||
