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Auction History Result #424 PASTOR HALL TC '40 Lawson, Pilbeam Date Sold 9/18/2001Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Title Lobby Card (Measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Pastor Hall (released in France as "Sublime Sacrifice", but this is not an "alternate English language title", because both those words mean the same in French as they do in English, and it was simply the French title), the 1940 Roy Boulting English World War II (WWII) Nazi takeover melodrama ("Daringly told! Brilliantly portrayed!"; "Based on a Story by Ernst Toller"; produced by John Boulting; the true story of a pastor in a small German village who refused to join the Nazi party and was sent to Dachau; "presented" in the U.S. by James Roosevelt, son of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt; he persuaded her to do an uncredited introduction to his U.S. version!) starring Wilfrid Lawson (in the title role as Pastor Frederick Hall), Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring, and Brian Worth. Note that the Boulting brothers wanted to make this movie right after the real life incident occurred, but the English government told them they could not do so, because they did not want to offend Hitler! But once England entered the war, the government no longer had any objection, and the movie was made, and it was released to great critical acclaim. Note that the movie paper for the U.S. release of this movie was two-color and extremely bland (likely because United Artists, who released it, wanted to downplay it, because America had not yet entered the war, and some U.S. studios were still distributing movies to Germany), but there is an excellent French poster we have auctioned (and we have not seen movie paper from other countries). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good. There are pinholes in the corners (tiny paper loss in the top right corner). The top left corner is creased. Learn More about condition grades 
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