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Auction History Result 1c579 EL PASO pressbook '49 art of John Payne & Gail Russell, corruption in Texas! Date Sold 7/14/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 15" [30 x 38 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More) El Paso, the 1949 Lewis R. Foster Texas corruption lawyer legal lynch mob vigilante justice cowboy western ("The Flaming Story Of The Feud-Ridden Frontier Town That Was Known As 'The Coffin-Corner of Texas'!"; "Selected by Photoplay Magazine as the year's outstanding action picture!"; "Based on a story by J. Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater"; an unusual movie that was a B-western wanting to be an A-western, about an Eastern lawyer going to a Western town where he finds a drunken judge who is letting a saloon owner and a corrupt sheriff run a town; the lawyer decides that only vigilante justice can fix the situation, and it is only when the townspeople start to kill all the bad men in a mass lynching that the lawyer comes to his senses and realizes that the law must be served) starring John Payne, Gail Russell, Sterling Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes (the #1 "sidekick" of leading B-western cowboy stars, he made 190 movies, and appeared with William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Randolph Scott, and after movies, he hosted "The Gabby Hayes Show" on television!), Dick Foran, Eduardo Noriega, Henry Hull, Mary Beth Hughes, H.B. Warner, and Bobby Ellis NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), 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 purchased 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: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook was folded once in each direction. Learn More about condition grades 
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