eMoviePoster.com
Auction History Result 4t1368 WOLVES OF THE DESERT 1sh 1926 stone litho art of Ben Wilson & Fangs the dog star, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/1/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Wolves of the Desert, the 1926 Ben F. Wilson silent cowboy western ("A drama of dancer and daring"; "Ben Wilson's star westerns") starring Fangs (billed as "The dog star"), Ben Wilson, Neva Gerber, Ruth Royce, and Ashton Dearholt. Note that the actor named Ashton Dearholt is an interesting footnote in movie history! He made 60 movies between 1916 and 1927, starring in some, but they are almost all forgettable. Dearholt wanted to become a producer in the movie business, and he kept trying to get Burroughs to let him make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs resisted, and in 1932, he signed a deal with MGM for a major Tarzan movie, and that seemed to end Dearholt's chance of making a deal, but in 1934, Dearholt found a beautiful young blonde that he left his wife for, and Dearholt's wife found consolation in the arms of Burroughs, who married her, and took custody of Dearholt's two children! Perhaps out of guilt, Burroughs signed a deal for Dearholt to make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs' sole involvement in the movie was putting up money and selling the rights, and Dearholt went to Guatemala (on the "Ashton-Dearholt Expedition"!), but the movie had all sorts of problems (Dearholt himself played the villain, and his new young girlfriend played the lead actress), and after it was partly completed, they quit filming and left Guatemala. They returned to the U.S. and managed to create a completed film from the footage they had shot, although it was far different from the original script. The movie did surprisingly well at first, but then MGM threatened theaters that showed the movie, and it got terrible U.S. distribution, although it did well overseas. Ultimately, none of the actors or crew were paid, and Dearholt never made another movie. But he remained good friends with Burroughs until his sudden death in 1942! 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 movie paper from this film is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a single other one-sheet movie poster for this silent film (24 years ago and that one was linenbacked and this one is not!) and NO other movie paper items from it until we were consigned this one-sheet poster! Condition: fair to good. The poster has many creases, tears and areas of separation along the upper and lower horizontal folds, making it pretty fragile. It has creases, defects, areas of paper loss and tears of varying lengths along parts of the edges. Someone backed many of the areas along the upper horizontal fold, the upper and center vertical foldline and center and right of the lower horizontal fold (as well as some edge tears) with many pieces of tape (someone used black tape on back of the lower blank border which slightly bleeds through to the front. The right blank border is slightly unevenly trimmed (see our image). The very rare poster is otherwise "mostly all there" and after proper restoration it will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CST) |
|||||||||||||
