eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result Lot #: 197 WOLF MAN ('24) linen 6sh Date Sold 7/1/2001Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 4 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Six-sheet (Learn More) The Wolf Man, the 1924 Edmund Mortimer silent romantic love triangle alcoholism adventure melodrama ("Better the rapids than the danger the forest held"; a complicated story of two wealthy English brothers in love with the same woman; one of the brothers is engaged to the woman, but he is an alcoholic who goes into rages when he is drunk, and after one such binge, his brother tells him he has killed his fiance's brother!; even though he doesn't remember it, he leaves England for Canada to escape the law, and finds a beautiful young woman, and he kidnaps her in another drunken binge; but once he sobers up, she falls in love with him, but her relatives want to kill him for kidnapping her, and he escapes in a canoe, but the canoe wrecks in rapids, and he survives, and sobers up and wins his new girl, and at the end, it is revealed that his brother was lying to him, and he never killed anyone, but his brother has married his old fiance!) starring John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Alma Francis, George Barraud, and Eugene Pallette. Note that Norma Shearer had only been appearing in credited roles for two years when this movie was made (she was 22 years-old), and she was under contract to Irving Thalberg at Metro Pictures (he would marry her five years later), but she was loaned to William Fox for this movie, and immediately after this movie, Thalberg signed John Gilbert to a contract at the newly formed MGM, and Gilbert and Shearer were reunited in "He Who Gets Slapped". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades
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