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Auction History Result 5n026 FAST MAIL WC '22 great stone litho of world record-holding miler, race horse, plane & more! Date Sold 6/16/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) The Fast Mail, the 1922 Bernard J. Durning silent cowboy western gambling kidnapping crime action adventure thriller ("The wonder melodrama of love and thrills"; "By Lincoln J. Carter"; about a cowboy in the Deep South who is cheated by gamblers who include his girlfriend's brother, and when he refuses to pay, they kidnap his girlfriend, and he has to pursue them, and that includes trains, planes, racecars, and boats!; he ends up not only rescuing his girlfriend, but an entire family trapped in a hotel that catches on fire) starring Buck Jones (billed as "Charles Jones"), Eileen Percy, Jim Mason, William Steele, and Adolphe Menjou. Note that William Fox used an advertising campaign for this movie based on the slogan "Speed Counts", which referred to Jones having to rescue his girl in time, and for the posters, they used images of the world record-holding airplane, racecar, race horse, railroad train, ocean liner, and track miler (note that in 1922, the world record in the track was 4 minutes 12 seconds!). Note that Buck Jones' white horse was named Silver (just like The Lone Ranger's later on!), and Silver made 73 movies with Buck Jones from 1922 until Jones' death in 1942 in the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire. But oddly, Silver was almost never billed on the posters for Buck Jones' movies as so many other famous horses (most especially Tom Mix's Tony) were! 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 has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except somewhat heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. Condition: good. The bottom 2" of the card had been trimmed off (cutting into the bottom of the letters of "CHARLES JONES"). The card had been folded across the middle and there were many rough creases across the center of the image. A talented restorer re-created the bottom 2" from another example of the card, and they did some restoration to the folds across the center, but they did not do much of any restoration to the rest of the card. At some point after the card was paperbacked, it was roughly handled, and there are now scuffs and tiny surface paper loss in the right end of the middle foldline. Certainly, a talented restorer could likely perform additional restoration to the card without re-backing it, and it displays pretty well as is, although you notice the creases across the middle and the paper loss in the middle of the right of the background area. Learn More about condition grades 
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