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Auction History Result 8z0030 TOLL GATE 8x10 LC 1920 William S. Hart & Anna Q. Nilsson see they have been followed! Date Sold 6/10/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Card (Learn More) The Toll Gate, the 1920 Lambert Hillyer silent cowboy western ("By William S. Hart and Lambert Hillyer"; like all William Hart movies, this has a very complicated plot about an outlaw who has a gang that has successfully eluded the law for three years, and he plans to retire, but his right hand man insists on pulling one last job, and when they do, that man betrays him and turns him in for the reward; but the army was once greatly helped by the outlaw, so they let him escape, and he spends the rest of the movie tracking down the man who betrayed him, who has joined with Mexican outlaws, so the outlaw joins with a posse seeking the man who betrayed him, and they manage to defeat the Mexicans and at the climax, he gets his revenge) starring William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson, and Richard Headrick. Note that there are many elements in this movie that were "borrowed" in later classic westerns (when the gang is betrayed, they rob a train, and the army is hiding in the train waiting to catch them, which was reused in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", and the scenes of Hart against the Mexican outlaws is very similar to "The Magnificent Seven"). Finally, note that the posters for this movie had a quote from William S. Hart that says "This is the first of my own productions - Wm. S. Hart", but he had actually been producing his own movies for several years, so we don't know why they would put that, unless it was just a case of outright lying! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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