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Auction History Result 7r219 CIVILIZATION LC R31 Thomas Ince anti-war classic, men brawling by machinery! Date Sold 10/6/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1931) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Civilization, the classic 1916 Thomas H. Ince silent anti-war religious fantasy melodrama ("Thos H. Ince's Million Dollar Spectacle"; "The Greatest Production of Modern Times"; it is an allegory about a king in an unnamed country, who has a submarine, and he orders the count in charge of it to sink an enemy ship, and the count refuses, and sinks the submarine instead, and he survives, but in limbo between life and death, where he meets Jesus in the flesh, who tells him to return to the living and preach peace, which he does, and that causes him to be sentenced to death, but then Jesus appears again!; it has been suggested that this film helped to get Woodrow Wilson re-elected as president because it reinforced his campaign promises to keep the United States out of World War I) starring Howard C. Hickman, Enid Markey, Lola May, Kate Bruce, J. Frank Burke, and George Fisher NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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