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Auction History Result 8r0368 FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR herald 1932 banker goes from rich to broke because of Demon Rum! Date Sold 5/13/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 6 1/2" x 7" [17 x 18 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) The Face on the Barroom Floor, the 1932 Bertram Bracken (billed as "Bert Bracken") drinking alcoholism melodrama ("The greatest fight in the history of the screen!"; "Heart throbs and gangsters! Divine tenderness and bootleggers! Oh, what a picture!"; "For once, the 'wets' and 'drys' agree! All pronounce it the screen's greatest accomplishment!"; "From the Hallowed Sanctity of a Happy Home - to the Curse of the Demon Rum."; "With Hollywood's greatest players"; "Story by - Aubrey Kennedy"; about a husband and wife where the husband is a successful banker, but he never drinks because there is a family history of alcoholism, but then his wife insists he start drinking occasionally to "be social", and before long, he is a raving alcoholic, who loses everything he has) starring Dulcie Cooper, Bramwell Fletcher, Walter Miller, Maurice Black, Eddie Fetherston, Alice Ward, Phillips Smalley, "and a Score of Others". Note that this movie was one of the very first talking movies against alcohol and the problems it caused, having been made just shortly after Prohibition's repeal. It bears a marked similarity to both "The Lost Weekend" and "The Days of Wine and Roses". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades 
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