eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #003 FOREIGN DEVILS TC '27 Tim McCoy Date Sold 9/10/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Foreign Devils, the 1927 W.S. Van Dyke silent China Boxer Rebellion military war melodrama (about an attache at the American Embassy in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, and he not only saves a pretty Englishwoman, but he pretty much defeats the rebels single-handedly!) starring Tim McCoy, Claire Windsor, Cyril Chadwick, Frank Currier, and Emily Fitzroy. Note that director W.S. Van Dyke had gotten his start as an assistant on D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" in 1916, and the following year, he was a director of many movies. He directed many westerns and other movies throughout the 1920s, and in 1928, he got his second big break when he helped Robert Flaherty direct "Shadows in the South Seas", and the following year, he was signed by MGM to make "Trader Horn", but it took two years to complete due to all the complications of location filming. The following year, he directed "Tarzan the Ape Man", and the huge success of that movie made him one of the top directors of the 1930s. 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. Condition: very good. There are pinholes in the corners. There are creases and water stains around the edges of the card. The top left corner was off and someone taped a piece from another card in its place. There is surface damage in the "S" of "WINDSOR" in the Learn More about condition grades
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