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Auction History Result 8x874 TIGER'S CLAW 1sh '51 Der Tiger Akbar, why does it KILL what it LOVES the most? Date Sold 6/24/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Der Tiger Akbar (released in the U.S. as "The Tiger's Claw"), the 1951 Harry Piel German circus melodrama ("His Rival... For her love was-a tiger!"; "Why does it Kill what it Loves the most?"; "A nerve-fraying drama of jungle passions... Of a lordly beast of prey and the woman of surpassing beauty they called 'the bride of the tiger'!"; "Their love was ruled by the law of the jungle!"; "Unchained fury! Unshackled emotions!") starring Harry Piel, Friedel Hardt, Nicolas Koline, Helga Wiedenbrug, and Fritz Lafontaine. Note that star/director Harry Piel was a major figure in early cinema. He wrote and directed his first movie when he was just 20 years old in 1912, and he made several movies over the next three years, and then began acting in them as well! He made many movies over the next decades. In 1933, he joined the Nazi party and made movies for them. In 1934, he made Der Herr der Welt, a science fiction movie with robots, but he had actually used robots in a movie he made in 1915! At the end of World War II, he was sentenced to 6 months in jail and banned from the film industry for 5 years. In 1950, he started a new film company, but did not have much success, and he retired in 1953 and passed away in 1961. Unfortunately, almost all the negatives of his silent films were destroyed when Germany was bombed during World War II, so few of his films survive, and that, combined with his Nazi collaboration, has caused him to be largely forgotten, except by major film buffs. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There is writing on the back that bleeds through to the front at lower center and two tiny spots of paper loss near the lower blank border but otherwise the poster is in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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