eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5r656 WHEEL OF CHANCE 8 LCs '28 Jewish Warner Oland & his family leave Russia for New York! Date Sold 10/20/2011Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14") (Learn More) Wheel of Chance, the 1928 Alfred Santell silent New York City Jewish family relationship identical brothers crime melodrama ("Richard Barthelmess in two great characterizations"; based on the story Roulette "by Fanny Hurst"; a wild preposterous tearjerker about a Russian Jewish family going to New York to escape the Czars, and before they go, one of their young twin sons dies, but they prosper in New York and their surviving son grows up to be a District Attorney, and then it is discovered that the other son didn't die, but was nursed back to health by the midwife who said he died, and he ended up in New York too, but he is a gangster, and amazingly, he kills the former sleazy girlfriend of the District Attorney, who is actually his twin brother, and their mother pleads with her good son to help her bad son, which he does, and at the end, the family is reunited) starring Richard Barthelmess ("in two great characterizations", as both twin brothers), Bodil Rosing, Warner Oland, Anne Schaefer, Lina Basquette, and Margaret Livingston. 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. All of the cards have "waves" in the bottom right corner where they were "bent", but they are not really creases, and would greatly diminish of the cards were put under weight. Each card has a pinhole in each corner. The title card and the card in the bottom right of our image have tiny replaced blank corners in the lower right, as does the card that is second from bottom left. The card in the bottom right of our image also has many scuffs in the lower half of the image. Other than the above, the cards are in pretty nice condition, especially considering their age! Learn More about condition grades
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