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Auction History Result 5j1381 CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY LC 1939 great art of Nazi spies exposed in spotlight, very rare! Date Sold 11/21/2023 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) Confessions of a Nazi Spy, the 1939 Anatole Litvak World War II (WWII) spy espionage crime thriller ("Trapped! by the America they tried to betray... by the government they tried to destroy... by the viciousness of their own traitorous schemes!"; "Sensational drama about Nazi activity in America!"; "You won't dare see this picture if you take orders from Them!"; "These hands....... must be caught"; "Based on materials gathered by Leon G. Turrou, 'Ace G-Man'"; Robinson is a federal agent posing as a Nazi spy to infiltrate a major spy ring) starring Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, Lya Lys, Henry O'Neill, George Sanders, Paul Lukas, Sig Ruman, Dorothy Tree, Lionel Royce, Henry Victor, and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski. Note that one of Warner Bros' executives was murdered by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s, which caused that studio to be the first to cease distributing their movies in Germany. They also were the first major studio to make this openly anti-Nazi movie, which pulled no punches! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this really cool lobby card (not only does it have a great image, but also note that the "X" in "EXPOSED" has been changed to be a swastika!). That example has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! Note that Warner Bros. did something very unusual with the lobby set for this movie! They created eight completely different lobby cards where each looks exactly like a "title card". One of the cards is the same as the half-sheet, so we consider that the true "title card", but the seven "scenes cards" absolutely look just like title cards. In addition, Warner Bros. also created seven "regular" scene cards showing actors from the movie. Those seven scene cards have been found with the title card from the other set described above, so we imagine that card served as the title card for both sets, meaning there were 15 cards in all! We don't know of Warner Bros. doing this for any other movie in the 1930s, but of course, this was a very special movie. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. The card had a V-shaped tear in the center of the top border that extended to just above the "P". There were three tiny tears to the left and right of that. There was a pinhole near the center of the right border, with a few scuff marks in the left and right solid background areas. Someone put tape on the back of the above defects and performed very slight touch up to the background scuffs at left and right. See our images of the front and back of the card to get a good sense of exactly what condition it is in and the little restoration that was performed. The card displays quite well, and it is not fragile and has only slightly darkened, which is unusual for Warner Bros. linen lobby cards of this period. Learn More about condition grades 
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