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Auction History Result d345 NEW YORK linen one-sheet movie poster '27 Ricardo Cortez stone litho! Date Sold 12/11/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) New York, the 1927 Luther Reed silent Manhattan New York City gangster romantic triangle crime melodrama ("Story by Barbara Chambers and Becky Gardiner"; about a New York gangster whose girlfriend visits his best friend, who was her childhood sweetheart, and he is about to get married, but the gangster misunderstands and thinks that his girlfriend is cheating on him, and he kills her, and his best friend is charged with the murder, and he keeps silent, but another friend of theirs ultimately reveals the truth; this is very similar in plot to both "Manhattan Melodrama" and "Once Upon a Time In America", and it seems likely that both movies drew off of this one, and oddly, in this movie, William Powell plays the gangster, but in "Manhattan Melodrama", he "switches sides", and plays the good guy!) starring Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell, and Norman Trevor. Note that one would think that with many hundreds of movies set in New York, there would have been many movies with the title "New York". Yet only this movie, and one obscure 1916 movie have this name! This movie was one of the last major silent movies, but is largely forgotten today. One wonders when some movie maker will realize how long it has been since this title was used, and will make the first sound movie with the title "New York" (and the same plot could certainly be re-used)! Also, 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that original 1927 posters from this early New York movie are EXTREMELY rare! In our 18 years of selling movie posters full time, we have never sold a single original release lobby card or poster from this movie, and this one-sheet has a great stone litho image! Condition: very good. The poster had a vertical tear in Cortez's cheek. There was paper loss in the left half of the middle foldline (in the woman-at-left's shoulder and in her cheek. There were some creases and smudges and a few tiny areas of paper loss on the other foldlines and some smudges in the red background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was expertly backed, and the restorer chose to paint over large portions of the red background area, and the restoration of the defects in the two stars' faces described above was so well repaired that it is barely noticeable at all. I would think few collectors would realize the restoration this poster has had, even looking at it from a close distance! Learn More about condition grades 
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