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Auction History Result 4d0489 BLUE EAGLE Japanese 14x30 1926 great art of George O'Brien, John Ford directed, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Japanese Movie Poster (measures 14" x 30 1/4" [36 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) The Blue Eagle, the 1926 John Ford silent World War I (WWI) Naval boxing romantic love triangle drug smuggling crime melodrama ("A fighting drama of adventure, courage, loyalty and strength on the high seas"; "From the story 'The Lord's Referee' by Gerald Beaumont"; about two Irish best friends who are sailors in WWI, and they compete for the same girl; after they get out, they both get into law enforcement and are trying to catch drug smugglers, and they still fight over the girl, and their local priest gets them to settle their differences in the boxing ring, with the winner likely winning the girl too!) starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, William Russell, David Butler, Robert Edeson, Ralph Sipperly, and Jerry Madden (billed as "Jerry the Giant"). Note that Jerry Madden had a small part in a 1925 movie, and then starred in "Jerry the Giant", a William Fox comedy short. He made a total of five of these shorts between 1926 and 1927, when Madden was between 3 and 4 years old. He also co-starred with Tom Mix in a 1927 movie! We don't know why Madden had this nickname, but we do know that as he became an older boy, he only had minor parts, and he had six roles in the 1930s, before he left movies. However, he lived all the way until 2009, when he passed away at the age of 85. If anyone knows more about Jerry Madden, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 we have never before auctioned this 1926 first release Japanese poster. Not only that, we have only previously auctioned four lobby cards and a still, and NO other first release movie paper from this movie! Not only that, but Japanese posters from any pre-World War II movies are beyond rare, and ones from silent movies are even rarer than that. So that makes this an incredible rarity on multiple levels. Note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 14" x 30 1/4" [36 x 77 cm]. Also 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. Condition: good to very good. The poster has metal rod along the upper edge to assist with hanging and it has had the lower edge trimmed (likely that area was a blank area for playdate information and it too likely had a metal bar, but we have seen no other examples of this poster and the blank area would have no effect on the image). It has ink transfer throughout the back of the poster from another poster but it has little or no effect on the front. There is a censor stamp at left and the poster has slightly darkened. The very rare poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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