eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5g1040 BROTHER ORCHID English pressbook R1950s Edward G. Robinson & Humphrey Bogart, different! Date Sold 8/6/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1950s) Re-Release Theatrical English Movie Pressbook (English pb; measures 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" [22 x 27 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Brother Orchid, the 1940 Lloyd Bacon gangster-on-the-run crime screwball comedy ("We'd like youse to meet Brother Orchid"; "Based on the Collier's magazine story by Richard Connell"; about a gangster who hides out in a monastery, and pretends to join the order, with great comic results!) starring Edward G. Robinson (in the title role as Little John Sarto/Brother Orchid), Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart (in one of his many unsympathetic gangster roles, after making The Petrified Forest, but before Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon), Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, and Paul Guilfoyle NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this English pressbook, 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 English pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received 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. The pressbook was removed from a bound volume and there are tiny holes down the spine. Otherwise, it is in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades
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