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Auction History Result 8b058 DUDE WRANGLER WC '30 Basquette & Keene in the story of a pansy cowboy, Hap Hadley art, rare! Date Sold 6/16/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Dude Wrangler, the 1930 Richard Thorpe romantic love triangle cowboy western melodrama ("The story of a 'Pansy' Cowboy!"; about an "effeminate" young man who lives with his aunt and designs embroidery patterns; he loves a beautiful woman who breeds polo ponies, but she says he needs to become "more of a man"; he buys a dude ranch in Wyoming where she goes, and dresses in cowboy attire, and her would-be rough boyfriend resents his presence, and they have many scuffles; finally, the young man fights the tough guy and that wins him the love of the girl) starring Lina Basquette, Tom Keene (billed as "George Duryea"), Francis X. Bushman, Clyde Cook, and Ethel Wales. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. Also note that Tom Keene was a New York college graduate (from Columbia and Carnegie Tech), and he started in movies under his real name of George Duryea. At the end of the 1920s, he signed with RKO and appeared in a series of westerns for them, but he was not comfortable in them and he kept trying to do other things, but could never really break out of the "B-western" cowboy genre. Finally, note that Francis X. Bushman, who had played Messala in "Ben-Hur" in 1925, played the brutish boyfriend in this movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Hap Hadley Important Added Info: Note that first release 1930 movie posters from this Tom Keene movie are incredibly rare. We have never sold even a single poster from this movie until we received this window card, which had wonderful art by Hap Hadley, who did the art for top Buster Keaton movies and others, and was one of the few artists allowed to sign his name to movie posters. Also note that this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Prior to paperbacking, the card was folded across the middle and had minor wear on the fold. It had smudges around the edges and a few smudges scattered throughout the image (see our image). Overall, the window card was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The card was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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