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Auction History Result 6p0790 ROME EXPRESS pressbook 1933 c/u of detective Conrad Veidt by open train door, ultra rare! Date Sold 11/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1933 Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 18" x 23" [46 x 58 cm]; 4 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has one page. (Learn More) Rome Express, the 1932 (released in the U.S. in 1933) Walter Forde English train crime mystery melodrama ("A lifetime of adventure in one night on a train!"; about a mysterious man who gets on board a train going to Rome, and he knows that a valuable painting that was just stolen from a museum was taken on board, but he doesn't know who has the painting, and naturally, the train is filled with suspicious characters, all desperate for money, and the man must discover who is the thief before the train gets to Rome) starring Esther Ralston, Conrad Veidt, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke (in his third film), Harold Huth, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, and Hugh Williams. Note that Conrad Veidt was not Jewish, but his wife was, and he was preparing to leave Germany in the early 1930s, because he could see what was coming. He made this movie in England in 1932, and then returned to Germany to make a couple more movies, and then he and his wife left Germany permanently (and of course, he starred in England's "The Thief of Bagdad" in 1940 and in "Casablanca" in the U.S. in 1942). Tragically, he died in 1943 at the age of 50, or he surely would have had many more memorable performances. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. This very large pressbook (18" x 23") was folded once in each direction. There are some faint smudges around the edges of some pages. Learn More about condition grades 
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