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SINS OF THE FATHERS ('28) SINS OF THE FATHERS ('28) WC, regular OR search current auctions Auction History Result 4k463 SINS OF THE FATHERS linen WC '28 best art of Emil Jannings with Devil looming over shoulder! Date Sold 8/30/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 17") (Learn More) Sins of the Fathers, the 1928 Ludwig Berger family relationship romantic bootlegging alcohol melodrama ("Story by Norman Burnstine"; about a man who is a waiter, and he has a family and owns the restaurant, but then he gets a mistress and his wife finds out and dies, and he becomes a bootlegger and is caught and sent to jail after his own son is blinded from drinking his moonshine, and when he gets out of jail, he gets a job as a waiter again, and the movie ends with him meeting his son, who forgives him, and who has regained his sight) starring Emil Jannings, Ruth Chatterton (in her very first movie after a successful stage career, and she has the starring role, and she was 35 at the time), Barry Norton, Jean Arthur, and Jack Luden. Note that this movie was one of the first silent movies to have some sound in it (it had singing sequences and sound effects, but was otherwise silent). 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 this window card has been trimmed and now measures 14" x 17". What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. Prior to linenbacking, the card had its blank top trimmed and there were tears and areas of paper loss around the edges with white dot staining down the left 2" of the card. There were tears in Jannings' chin and a hole in his forehead, with some scratch marks in the middle of his credit. Overall, the card was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. The card was simply linenbacked with only the slightest attempt at restoration. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have further restoration performed! Learn More about condition grades 
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