eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9g1215 NEW YORK Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation softcover book 1927 Lois Wilson, Ricardo Cortez Date Sold 7/8/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Softcover Book (measures 5 1/2" x 8" [14 x 20 cm]; 128 pages) (Learn More) New York, the 1927 Luther Reed silent Manhattan New York City gangster romantic triangle crime melodrama ("Story by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner"; about a New York gangster whose girlfriend visits his best friend, who was her childhood sweetheart, and he is about to get married, but the gangster misunderstands and thinks that his girlfriend is cheating on him, and he kills her, and his best friend is charged with the murder, and he keeps silent, but another friend of theirs ultimately reveals the truth; this is very similar in plot to both "Manhattan Melodrama" and "Once Upon a Time In America", and it seems likely that both movies drew off of this one, and oddly, in this movie, William Powell plays the gangster, but in "Manhattan Melodrama", he "switches sides", and plays the good guy!) starring Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell, and Norman Trevor. Note that one would think that with many hundreds of movies set in New York, there would have been many movies with the title "New York". Yet only this movie, and one obscure 1916 movie have this name! This movie was one of the last major silent movies, but is largely forgotten today. One wonders when some movie maker will realize how long it has been since this title was used, and will make the first sound movie with the title "New York" (and the same plot could certainly be re-used)! Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation photoplay edition (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: this company like Grosset & Dunlap) was a publisher that made a deal with some studios to publish "movie edition" softcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies. They would republish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put an image on the front related to the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades
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