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Auction History Result 6t0577 CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY TC 1939 it courageously dares to call a swastika a swastika, rare! Date Sold 7/2/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Confessions of a Nazi Spy, the 1939 Anatole Litvak World War II (WWII) spy espionage crime thriller ("Trapped! by the America they tried to betray... by the government they tried to destroy... by the viciousness of their own traitorous schemes!"; "Sensational drama about Nazi activity in America!"; "You won't dare see this picture if you take orders from Them!"; "These hands....... must be caught"; "Based on materials gathered by Leon G. Turrou, 'Ace G-Man'"; Robinson is a federal agent posing as a Nazi spy to infiltrate a major spy ring) starring Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, Lya Lys, Henry O'Neill, George Sanders, Paul Lukas, Sig Ruman, Dorothy Tree, Lionel Royce, Henry Victor, and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Note that one of Warner Bros' executives was murdered by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s, which caused that studio to be the first to cease distributing their movies in Germany. They also were the first major studio to make this openly anti-Nazi movie, which pulled no punches! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have auctioned many lobby cards from this movie, but we have only previously auctioned three examples of this title card (the only title card out of the two sets created; see below). Also note that we were consigned five different lobby cards from this movie 15 months ago, and we have auctioned the other four, and this is the final one, so after this card, we won't have another unless we receive another one as a new consignment. Note that Warner Bros. did something very unusual with the lobby cards for this movie! They created what APPEARS to be TWO completely different lobby card sets (read on to see why I say "appears to be"). On one of the sets, each of the eight cards looks exactly like a "title card", but each has a very different image. However, one of those eight cards is the same as the half-sheet, so we consider that the true "title card", but the other seven "scenes cards" from that set absolutely look just like title cards. In addition, Warner Bros. also created seven "regular" scene cards showing actors from the movie. Those seven scene cards have been found with the title card from the other set described above, so we imagine that title card served as the title card for both sets, meaning there were 15 cards in all, not 16! We don't know of Warner Bros. doing this for any other movie in the 1930s, but of course, this was a very special movie. THIS IS THE ONLY TITLE CARD AMONG THE 15 CARDS THAT WERE CREATED FOR THIS MOVIE! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good. The card has barely darkened, very unusual of Warner Bros. linen lobby cards of this period, and it is not at all fragile, which is a big plus! The card had several tiny areas of surface paper loss or pinholes scattered throughout, and someone performed touch up to those areas, but they are mostly only noticeable when the card is tilted to the light. There is light water staining down the lower half of the right border, extending into the green background, with a few smaller faint water stains in other parts of the borders. Learn More about condition grades 
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