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Auction History Result 5y0540 ROME EXPRESS English 3sh 1932 art of detective Conrad Veidt, country of origin, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/13/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded English Three-Sheet (called a 6sh in England) Movie Poster (3sh; measures 40" x 87 3/4" [102 x 223 cm]) (Learn More) Rome Express, the 1932 (released in the U.S. in 1933) Walter Forde English train crime mystery melodrama ("A lifetime of adventure in one night on a train!"; about a mysterious man who gets on board a train going to Rome, and he knows that a valuable painting that was just stolen from a museum was taken on board, but he doesn't know who has the painting, and naturally, the train is filled with suspicious characters, all desperate for money, and the man must discover who is the thief before the train gets to Rome) starring Esther Ralston, Conrad Veidt, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke (in his third film), Harold Huth, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, and Hugh Williams. Note that Conrad Veidt was not Jewish, but his wife was, and he was preparing to leave Germany in the early 1930s, because he could see what was coming. He made this movie in England in 1932, and then returned to Germany to make a couple more movies, and then he and his wife left Germany permanently (and of course, he starred in England's "The Thief of Bagdad" in 1940 and in "Casablanca" in the U.S. in 1942). Tragically, he died in 1943 at the age of 50, or he surely would have had many more memorable performances. 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 we have never before auctioned this English three-sheet, which is a "country of origin" poster for this English movie! Not only that, but the only movie paper items we have ever auctioned are one English still, a U.S. still, a French two-panel, and a U.S. pressbook. Also note that this English three-sheet was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Finally, note that the theater that used this poster glued the pieces together before putting them on display (this is typical of many actual theater-used posters in multiple pieces). Condition: good. The theater that used this poster glued the pieces together before putting them on display (this is typical of many actual theater-used posters in multiple pieces). The poster has creases, tears, and small paper loss in parts of the folds and borders. There is a foreign stamp in the left and right of the title. There are a few tears in non-fold or border areas. Learn More about condition grades 
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