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Auction History Result 7b0167 DAS GEHEIMSCHLOSS German 25x38 1914 female master detective Ellen Jensen Eck, rare! Date Sold 8/27/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded German Movie Poster (measures 25 1/4" x 38" [64 x 97 cm]) (Learn More) Das Geheimschloss (literally translates to "The Secret Castle", the third part of "Miss Clever Versus the Black Hand"), the 1914 German silent female detective kidnapping crime adventure (about a female master detective, who is also a "mistress of disguise", and she has really impressive ones, including as a beggar, a school girl, and even as a Greek statue, entirely painted white, and wearing a toga!) starring Ellen Jensen Eck. Note that this was the third in a series of films (called a "serial", similar to, but different from the later serials) about this female detective and her adventures, but the film was censored and later banned because some of the heroine's costumes (and scenes of her changing in and out of them) were seen as too suggestive! Also note that the evil organization that Miss Clever fights against is called "The Black Hand", which was the name of the Serbian nationalist group whose assassination of Duke Franz Fedinand of Austro-Hungary that same year triggered the First World War, but in the film, it is a fictitious organization, and has the same name, but no political overtones. The only known surviving print of this film is in the EYE National Museum for Film in the Netherlands. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only auctioned two examples of this poster before! It was printed in Germany long before World War II. There are very few German movie posters from before World War II in existence (because of the massive paper shortages in Germany during World War II), and most of those few are in museums. Condition: good to very good. Someone covered the back of the edges with thick masking tape that slightly bleeds through to the front (not put there for any restoration purpose). Learn More about condition grades 
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