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Auction History Result 1v141 ROARING RAILS WC '24 cool headshot artwork of Harry Carey, plus speeding railroad train! Date Sold 8/28/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Roaring Rails, the 1924 Tom Forman silent romantic family relationship railroad train action melodrama ("Story and Scenario by Hunt Stromberg and Doris Dorn"; "Entire production under the personal supervision of Hunt Stromberg"; "Photographed by Sol Polito"; about a soldier in World War I who adopts a French orphan, and returns to his job as a train engineer, but his son accidentally costs him his job and he becomes a hobo; the hobo gets a job on a railroad, and a bad man sabotages the railroad and causes the hobo's adopted son to be badly burned on his eyes; the hobo agrees to take the blame for a murder the bad man committed, to get money for an operation for his son, but the bad man double-crosses him and the hobo breaks out of jail and steals a train which he drives through a raging forest fire and rescues his son and saves the day, and of course, he gets a big reward, a good job, and a beautiful girl!) starring Harry Carey Sr., Frankie Darro, Edith Roberts, Wallace MacDonald, and Frank Hagney 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 poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except somewhat heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. Condition: good to very good. The poster had pinholes, creases, tears, and some areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster and some creases, smudges, scuffs, and a few pinholes scattered throughout the image, with two horizontal scratches above the word "ROARING" in the title. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was well backed by a talented restorer, who did not touch up the smudges and scuffs scattered through the poster (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the poster a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the smudges and scuffs are all that distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 84 year-old original poster!). Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this window card that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if another example of this card exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). This card has had expert restoration and displays nicely. Learn More about condition grades 
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