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Auction History Result 3s153 FIGHT TO THE FINISH linen 3sh '25 stone litho of son of millionaire turned pro boxer in ring! Date Sold 12/11/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) A Fight to the Finish, the 1925 B. Reeves Eason (billed as "Reeves Eason") silent sports boxing romantic melodrama ("A thrilling drama of whirlwind action"; a fun story of a son of a millionaire who is a playboy, so to "cure" him, his dad tells him he has gone broke, and the son vows to go to work to support his father; however, he can't find a job, and after he knocks out a guy bothering a girl, the girl reveals that the guy he knocked out was the state boxing champion, and oddly enough, she is a boxing trainer, and she offers to take him on; he gets a fight with the champ, but crooks drug him on the night of the match, and he loses, but afterwards, he gets in a bare fist fight with the champ, and knocks him out, and his father is there to be proud of him, and he introduces his trainer to his dad as "his future bride"!) starring William Fairbanks, Phyllis Haver, Tom Ricketts, Pat Harmon, William Bolder, and Leon Beauman. Note that William Fairbanks was a German-American born Carl Uhlman, and he started in movies at the age of 22 in 1916, and he acted under his own name. In 1921, he had an inspiration and changed his name to "William Fairbanks" (although he was no relation to Douglas Fairbanks), and he started starring in mostly action movies, like Doug did at the same time, and many of William's movies involved car racing, and he did his own stunts. He had a fair amount of success in westerns and action movies, but most of his movies were made for lesser studios, and his career ended in 1928 with the coming of sound. He passed away in 1945 at the age of 50, after having contracted pneumonia. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. There was a diagonal tear with no paper loss in the center of the credits below the title. The poster had two stains in the upper right blank border and some pinholes and tiny tears around the edges. It had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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