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Auction History Result f021 LAST WARNING canvas banner movie poster '29 stone litho! Date Sold 12/20/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Canvas Movie Poster Banner (measures 34 3/4" x 53 1/4") (Learn More) The Last Warning, the 1929 Paul Leni (influential German Expressionist filmmaker, probably best remembered for his German production of "Waxworks", and for his American movies "The Cat and the Canary" and "The Man Who Laughs"; he died of blood poisoning the same year he made his last movie, "The Last Warning", and it seems likely he would have been an influential director of the 1930s at Universal Studios had he lived!) theater stage acting crime murder mystery thriller ("A Laemmle special"; based on the novel 'House of Fear' by Wadsworth Camp, but it seems to owe a great deal to "The Phantom of the Opera"; about a play that opens, and on opening night, a lead actor is killed on the stage, and his murder is not solved; so five years later, the producer gets the same actors to re-create their roles in a new production, thinking it will prove irresistible to the killer to strike again, which he again does on opening night!) starring Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles, Burr McIntosh, and Mack Swain NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Joe Hirt Important Added Info: Note that this is an EXTREMELY rare vertical canvas banner! Studios commonly made very long horizontal canvas banners for most of their 1920s major productions, but this is the only one of these horizontal canvas banners we have ever seen! It is a beautiful stone litho that has a "picture frame" border design, which makes it look as though it is an oil painting! There is a wooden dowel attached to the back of the top and bottom borders, which allowed for the poster to hang perfectly straight. The bottom of the poster has printed on it "PATENT APPLIED FOR, SWEENEY LITHO CO. INC. BELLEVILLE, N.J.", which may explain why we have never seen one of these other than this one (perhaps a company was trying to interest theaters in this novel new kind of poster, but it was likely expensive to produce, and the theaters may not have been willing to purchase them at the necessary cost. Condition: good to very good. There are some faint water stains and some creases scattered through the poster and there are many scuffs scattered through the darker colored areas (all of this is much more noticeable from the back of the poster than from the front). At one time, someone put some small pieces of tape on just a few places on the back of the poster (no doubt for reinforcement), but the tape is long gone. From any reasonable viewing distance, the minor defects are not really noticeable, and the poster looks fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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