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Auction History Result 6b165 70,000 WITNESSES WC '32 they saw a football star murdered on a scoring play, but who did it! Date Sold 3/24/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Seventy Thousand Witnesses, the 1932 Ralph Murphy football sports mystery crime thriller ("70,000 Witnesses to the most AMAZING CRIME ever committed!"; "On a scoring play --- football star - MURDERED! before 70,000 Witnesses"; "Who did it?"; "From the novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons"; about a star football quarterback who is killed in front of an entire stadium) starring Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charlie Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown (who was an All-American halfback while attending the University of Alabama), Lew Cody, and David Landau. Note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", re-titled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman! 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 this window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: good to very good. There are some smudges scattered around the edges and a few within the image, but otherwise, the card is in pretty good condition, especially considering its age. Learn More about condition grades 
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