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Auction History Result #374 KING OF THE ROARING 20's 1/2sh '61 Date Sold 10/8/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (released in other English-speaking countries as "The Big Bankroll"), the 1961 Joseph M. Newman gambling crime thriller ("The hell-bent years of the jazz-crazed era and the man who ruled it all!!"; "King of gamblers! Overlord to broadway! Big fix of the sporting world! Loved... hated... feared... he was 'King of the Roaring 20s'"; "From Leo Katcher's best-selling novel 'The Big Bankroll'"; "From the red-hot best seller 'The Big Bankroll'"; about the famous gambler who, among many other things, fixed the 1919 baseball World Series [with the Chicago White Sox, who became the "Black Sox"], and who was killed after refusing to pay his losses from a very high stakes poker game) starring David Janssen (as Arnold Rothstein), Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Dan O'Herlihy, Mickey Shaughnessy, Keenan Wynn, William Demarest, and Joseph Schildkraut (billed as "Guest Star Joseph Schildkraut"), and Mickey Rooney ("as Johnny Burke") 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 this poster shows Janssen (as Arnold Rothstein) dragging in a huge stack of poker chips, and behind him is a roulette wheel! Condition: good. There are many pinholes, creases, and smudges around the edges of the poster. The left and right borders were folded back at one time. There are many creases within the image area and there are some small areas of surface paper loss within the im. Note that this poster has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (once horizontally and once vertically) right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Learn More about condition grades 
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