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Auction History Result 2s444 SWORD IN THE DESERT trade ad 1949 Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally, Israel! Date Sold 12/23/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Trade Ad (measures 12 1/4" x 18 1/2" [31 x 47 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) Sword in the Desert, the 1949 George Sherman England Middle-East Palestine Israel War of Independence melodrama ("Their story is written in the burning sands and bullets sing the fame of their deeds!"; about an American freighter captain who smuggles Jewish refugees into Palestine just before the 1948-49 War of Independence; the producers tried to be very even handed and not favor either side, and this is surely one of the very first movies made after the creation of Israel about this subject, because the war ended in March of 1949 and this movie was released in August of 1949) starring Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler (in his third credited movie role!), Philip Friend, Hugh French, and Liam Redmond. Note that Jeff Chandler was Jewish and had been born Ira Grossel. He never hid his Jewish heritage, and he was very proud to appear in this movie, and it was the only character he ever played who was explicitly Jewish (he played one of the refugees). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a large group of trade ads we are currently auctioning, all of which were removed from exhibitor magazines or studio yearbooks. These are far more rare than ads removed from regular movie magazines (because those were sold to the general public, whereas exhibitor magazines and studio yearbooks were ONLY sent to theater owners). Often, these trade ads have completely different images from the posters the studios created, both because they were aimed at a different market, and they were often prepared prior to the movie's actual release, so they might have something different about them! Many of these may not have been printed in any other form since this ad was first printed (and unless otherwise indicated above, it is from when the movie was first released, usually slightly in advance of the movie's actual release). Note that the back of this page has text or an ad for other movies from that time, and we have not pictured that back page because the primary interest to bidders is the ad we have pictured. Condition: good to very good. The trade ad was removed from a magazine (see above). Learn More about condition grades 
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