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Auction History Result g390 COVERED WAGON window card movie poster '23 James Cruze western! Date Sold 2/14/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Window Card Movie Poster (measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) The Covered Wagon, the classic 1923 James Cruze silent winning-the-West pioneer wagon train romantic adventure cowboy western ("The cowards never started - The weak died on the way"; "Out where thrills began"; "A wonder picture that Will thrill you"; "From the novel by Emerson Hough"; "With hearts fortified by love they braved the perils of the plains"; one of the most major westerns of the 1920s, it was made at a time when westerns were thought to be losing their popularity, but this movie single-handedly revived the genre; set in 1848, about two wagon trains that travel from Kansas City to California and Oregon via the Oregon Trail, and the great difficulties they encounter along the way) starring Lois Wilson, J. Warren Kerrigan, Alan Hale Sr., Charles Ogle, Ethel Wales, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Guy Oliver, John Fox, Tim McCoy (who is billed as an "Indian liaison"), and Jack Padjan. Note that Paramount gave this movie a really major release, and virtually every poster on the movie has completely different artwork from all the other posters! Note that the advertising for this movie states that "3,000 actors spend 3 months on a location 80 miles from the railroad. 1,000 Indians were used and the livestock included 600 oxen, 1,000 horses, and 500 mules"! 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 there are faint stains just above and just below the left of the title area, and small surface paper loss in the top left corner, but that otherwise the card is in really wonderful condition, and is hard to believe it is over 80 years old! Condition: fine. This item is in REALLY nice condition (what many dealers would describe as "fine" or "near mint")! It has only the very most minor of defects! We only put this "fine" grade on 188 of the 713 items we are currently selling. We saved it for the very best ones, ones that clearly had never been used, and ones we thought would be acceptable to EVERY collector, no matter how condition conscious they are! Learn More about condition grades 
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