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3z412 BIG HOUSE LC 1930 great image of convicts Wallace Beery & others breaking out of prison!

Date Sold 2/1/2018
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 10 3/4" x 13 3/4" [27 x 35 cm]) (Learn More)

The Big House, the 1930 George W. Hill romantic crime prison escape melodrama ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture"; "Story and dialogue by Frances Marion"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a playboy who is sentenced to jail for drunk driving and he gets involved with the two tough leaders of the convicts, and he is killed during a huge breakout from the prison, but one of the leaders saves the warden's life and wins the love of the playboy's sister) starring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, and Leila Hyams. Note that this wasn't the first of the "big" 1930s gangster movies, but it was hugely successful, and it opened the door for the many great movies that soon followed, including "Little Caesar", "Public Enemy", "Scarface", and so many more. Wallace Beery's character was based on Al Capone, but since he was still around in 1930, they gave the character several significant differences. Also note that the following year, Laurel & Hardy parodied this movie in their film "Pardon Us"!
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Important Added Info: Note that this lobby card has been trimmed and it now measures 10 3/4" x 13 3/4" [27 x 35 cm]. Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

Condition: good. A tiny bit of the left and bottom blank borders were trimmed off. Someone folded the card across the middle. There are some creases and smudges around the edges, with a few dot stains and two tiny pinholes near the center of the top border
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