eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6y132 EMERGENCY CALL 1/2sh '33 wonderful art of William Boyd, Gibson & ambulance! Date Sold 4/28/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Emergency Call, the 1933 Edward L. Cahn insurance fraud crime thriller ("Astounding disclosure of the hospital racket..."; "Screen Play by Houston Branch and Joseph L. Mankiewicz"; about the then significant social problem of people staging car "accidents", where they would pretend to be hit by a car and they would have convenient "witnesses" standing nearby who would be willing to sign affidavits, and they would use them to extort the drivers who thought they had hit the "victim") starring William Boyd (billed as "Bill Boyd"), Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, Betty Furness, George E. Stone, and Edwin Maxwell. Note that this type of fraud continues to the present day, but is not as prevalent as it once was. It was used on the TV series "Better Call Saul", where Jimmy McGill (later Saul Goodman) tells how he started his life in crime doing the very scam that this movie exposes (and how he was called "Slippin' Jimmy"!). Also note that the screenplay was co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who would write other socially conscious movies in the 1930s, including the dialog for "Our Daily Bread", and whose masterpiece was "All About Eve" in 1950. 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 never been folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: good to very good. There are some creases and tears of varying lengths around the edges of the poster (approximately 1" or less). There is paper loss in the left blank border. Most of the tears and tattering have been repaired with tape from the back in the edges. The poster is otherwise in generally nice condition. Learn More about condition grades
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