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Auction History Result Lot #: JW 003 BIG TRAIL lobby card '30 artwork image of young John Wayne!  Date Sold 7/10/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in John Wayne Movie Posters at Auction 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 Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Raoul Walsh's The Big Trail, the 1930 Louis R. Loeffler & Raoul Walsh adventure epic winning-of-the-West cowboy western ("Greatest Fox Movietone"; "The Most Important Picture Ever Produced"; "Raoul Walsh's all talking Fox Movietone production"; "Story by Hal G. Evarts") starring John Wayne (very young in this role!), Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr., David Rollins, and "a cast including 93 principals and 20,000 extras". John Wayne was given a chance to have a leading role in this movie at a very young age. After this movie did poorly at the box office (which was not John Wayne's fault, but he was unfairly hurt by this experience), he was only given mostly lesser roles (including starring roles in a large number of B-westerns) until 1939 when he finally became a superstar in "Stagecoach" (and only because Gary Cooper turned down the role!). Note that for U.S. audiences, this movie was filmed in both the 1.37:1 format (known as the Academy ratio) and a widescreen format, which means they had to film the same scenes twice with different cameras! But that's not all. This movie was also made in FIVE languages simultaneously, which were English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German! The Italian version starred Franco Corsaro and Luisa Caselotti and was called "Il Grande Sentiero". The French version starred Gaston Glass and Jeanne Helbling and was called "La Piste des Geants". The Spanish version starred George J. Lewis and Carmen Guerrero and was called "La Gran Jornada". The German version starred Theo Shall and Marion Lessing and was called "Die Grosse Fahrt". They are exactly the same movies, except for the language difference and the different cast (this is very similar to the 1931 U.S. and Mexican versions of "Dracula"). Imagine the difficulty of shooting all of these versions at one time, likely using the same sets! We wager that few film buffs know that William Fox wanted to recoup the huge cost of this movie by making five simultaneous language versions, as noted above! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Joe Aitner Important Added Info: Note that on major releases of the 1920s and early 1930s, William Fox would commission excellent artists to paint all of the posters for the ad campaign, and also paint eight different lobby card images. The lobby card offered here is one of the few in the set to show the very young John Wayne, and in this card he is prominently pictured riding a horse with his hat on and his rifle slung over his shoulder! Condition: good to very good. note that this card was heavily trimmed and approximately 1" of the top of the card and approximately 2" of the left of the card were trimmed off. The master restorers at Studio C re-created the missing artwork and the missing area of the credit box at top left (Raoul Walsh's name, and the word "Greatest" needed to be re-created, as did the "BIG T" of "BIG TRAIL"). There was also the need to match the intricate artwork in the background at top and left. I was able to provide Studio C with a great image of a complete card, and they have really done a masterful job re-creating the missing area (I think many people would not be aware of it until they were told where it was, and then it can be seen on close scrutiny). Note that the image of Wayne on the horse was completely unaffected by the trimming in order to restore the missing area, the card was paperbacked. This means the entire card was put onto a lightweight board backing. The untrimmed area of the card was in nice condition prior to restoration. Obviously this card has had significant restoration, but it is an extremely rare and desireable card! However, please do not bid on this unless you can accept the restoration it has had. Learn More about condition grades 
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