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Auction History Result 2y199 SONG OF THE EAGLE pressbook '33 about mobsters trying to steal a brewery post-Prohibition! Date Sold 10/1/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11 1/4" x 17 1/4" [29 x 44 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Song of the Eagle, the 1933 Ralph Murphy post-Prohibition alcohol drinking crime thriller ("The tense, gripping story of your generation!"; about a family that owns a brewery after Prohibition is repealed, and how they fight mobsters who want to take it away from them) starring Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Jean Hersholt, Louise Dresser, and Andy Devine NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this movie is a crime thriller depicting a family attempting to keep their family brewery out of the hands of mobsters. But the poster designer either did not know the plot of the movie, or didn't care, and they advertised the movie with a great image of a monster bird over a metropolitan area trying to pluck up some of the scared people (perhaps they were trying for a metaphor for what the movie was about!). In any case, I would think there were a lot of confused moviegoers who saw this poster and then saw the movie, and wondered where the gigantic eagle was! I guess they got feedback about this, because this pressbook has a snipe on it telling exhibitors to subtitle the movie "The Passing of the Beer Baron", and saying that doing so greatly increased the grosses for the movie! Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. There is faint staining on the covers, but the pressbook is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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