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Auction History Result 5y0509 DAS GEHEIMSCHLOSS German 25x38 1914 female master detective Ellen Jensen Eck, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/13/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Reviews German Movie Poster (measures 25 1/4" x 37 3/4" [64 x 96 cm]) (Learn More) Das Geheimschloss (literally translates to "The Secret Castle", the third part of "Miss Clever Versus the Black Hand"), the 1914 German silent female detective kidnapping crime adventure (about a female master detective, who is also a "mistress of disguise", and she has really impressive ones, including as a beggar, a school girl, and even as a Greek statue, entirely painted white, and wearing a toga!) starring Ellen Jensen Eck. Note that this was the third in a series of films (called a "serial", similar to, but different from the later serials) about this female detective and her adventures, but the film was censored and later banned because some of the heroine's costumes (and scenes of her changing in and out of them) were seen as too suggestive! Also note that the evil organization that Miss Clever fights against is called "The Black Hand", which was the name of the Serbian nationalist group whose assassination of Duke Franz Fedinand of Austro-Hungary that same year triggered the First World War, but in the film, it is a fictitious organization, and has the same name, but no political overtones. The only known surviving print of this film is in the EYE National Museum for Film in the Netherlands. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we believe that this poster, which is an extremely rare "country of origin" poster for this German movie, and which we have never auctioned before, was sent to theater owners to try to get them to book the movie (it has images from the movie and a synopsis of the movie beneath it). So it would have been like a pressbook, except printed in a one-sheet-like format instead of in a booklet. It is also possible that it was sent to theaters to display so that theatergoers could see what the movie was about. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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