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Auction History Result 5p0174 FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR linen 1sh 1932 banker goes from rich to broke because of Demon Rum! Date Sold 9/1/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that first release U.S. movie posters from this 1932 movie are beyond rare (we had a few lobby cards and a herald, but never any U.S. poster)! We have only previously auctioned this great one-sheet once before (7 years ago), and the buyer of that poster has now reconsigned it to us, so this is still the only poster from this movie we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the bottom two crossfolds and pretty minor fold and border wear. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed with virtually no restoration, and no excess linen, and there are now some tiny tears in the right border and tiny paper loss in the top right corner, but overall, the poster displays well just as it is. Learn More about condition grades 
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