eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5j804 THEY LIVE IN FEAR style B 1/2sh '44 Otto Kruger, funky WWII propaganda! Date Sold 2/24/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) They Live in Fear, the 1944 Josef Berne World War II (WWII) German-teenager-moves-to-America-to-escape-the-Nazis melodrama ("He lived in fear in Germany!", "He lived and loved in America!"; "They made my girl a HITLER BRIDE!"; "America's youthful rug-cutters meet a young ex-Hitler cut-throat in America!"; "Hitler's henchmen taught him to hate! This American girl taught him to love!") starring Otto Kruger, Clifford Severn, Pat Parrish, Jimmy Carpenter, Erwin Kalser, William 'Billy' Benedict, Frederick Giermann, and Frederic Brunn. Note that this movie was made near the end of World War II, after some of the revelations about the concentration camps became public knowledge, and this movie pulls no punches in its extreme patriotism and anti-Nazi sentiment. It tells of a non-Jewish German teen who is instructed in the glories of Hitler in high school, and they take the students on a field trip to the Dachau concentration camp, and they are told by their teacher to kill some of the Jewish prisoners with shovels. The student refuses, and he tries to help one of the prisoners, who gives him advice to flee Germany and gives him a letter of introduction to a U.S. professor. The young man goes to the U.S. and finds the professor and is enrolled in the high school there, and he learns about what makes America great, and he is asked to give a speech on the radio about the evils of Nazism, but when he is about to start, he is told that the people in Germany might hear his radio speech, so he fears for his family's life, and starts to defend the Nazis as not so bad, but his mother appears to him in a dream, telling him to do what is right, and he goes back and makes a stirring speech telling how evil the Nazis are, and he graduates high school, and becomes a U.S. citizen, planning to join the military and fight the Nazis! 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 poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Note that this item (and others we are auctioning in this set of auctions) come to us from the estate of Lee Sanders. Mr. Sanders was a nationally recognized projectionist, film poster collector, and union activist who passed away earlier this year, and the net proceeds from the sale of his varied and eclectic collection will be donated to promote film studies at the Besant School of Happy Valley in Ojai, Ca. Condition: good to very good. There is approximately 6" of separation in the right end of the horizontal fold that has been repaired with tape from the back. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades
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