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Auction History Result 5a0262 GRIM GAME LC 1919 great image of policemen & others arresting Harry Houdini as a maniac! Date Sold 7/12/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Grim Game, the 1919 Irvin Willat silent romantic adventure prison escape crime thriller ("Houdini escape from a straight-jacket hanging head downward from a seven story building. Only one of the thrills in 'The Grim Game'"; "The aeroplanes 4000 feet in the air, crash and plunge to earth. $1000 reward to anyone proving that this was not a real accident!"; "Houdini in 'The Grim Game'"; "Mystery, thrills, excitement - by a man who has mystified, thrilled and excited the whole world"; a cool story where the hero is in love with the pretty ward of his rich uncle, who opposes the match, and to impress his uncle, he hatches a scheme where the uncle pretends to be killed, and the young man is going to be imprisoned due to circumstantial evidence, and then he plans on revealing that not only is he not the "killer", but his uncle is still alive, but then unfortunately, the uncle actually IS murdered, and because of the false circumstantial evidence he planted, the young man is actually sentenced to prison!; of course, this is all just an excuse to have the great Houdini escape from every possible sort of restraint, including strait-jackets and handcuffs!) starring Harry Houdini (billed as "Houdini"), Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips, and Tully Marshal. Note that legendary magician Harry Houdini was 45 before he made his first movie, and he only appeared in a total of five movies. Naturally, he performed magic tricks in those movies, but few of the posters that survive from those movies show him actually performing magic, especially the tricks he was most famous for. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that lobby cards from any of legendary magician Harry Houdini's few movies are incredibly rare! 28 and 29 years ago, we auctioned a total of six cards from this movie, and then we had another single card in 2016, and the buyer of that card has now re-consigned it to us! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. There is staining down the right border, slightly extending into the background at lower right. There are some stains in the rest of the borders and only one in the top left image background. There is a diagonal crease in the top left, extending into the image background (but not the people) and there is tiny paper loss in the bottom left. Other than the above, the card is in surprisingly nice condition, and it is not at all fragile. This is the sort of card that responds really well to professional restoration. It is likely that much or all of the light staining can be removed through chemical means, after which the card will look fantastic (and since the vast majority of the stains are in the blank borders, I think many collectors could happily display this great card on their wall just as it is, because most of the staining would be matted out, but if one chose to restore the card, it would have almost no paint restoration anywhere in the image). Learn More about condition grades 
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