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Auction History Result 1d092 COUNTER-ESPIONAGE 8 LCs 1942 Warren William as The Lone Wolf knocking out spies in London! Date Sold 10/21/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Counter-Espionage, the 1942 Edward Dmytryk detective mystery crime comedy ("Spy spies on spy in a London air raid!"; "Handing spies a knock-out in a London black-out!"; "The Lone Wolf runs rings around a spy ring!"; "Risking bullets from spies... to save London from bombs!"; "A Yank's Wits Put a Nazi on the Fritz!"; "Based upon a work by Louis Joseph Vance") starring Warren William ("as 'The Lone Wolf'"), Eric Blore, Hillary Brooke, Thurston Hall, and Fred Kelsey. Note that The Lone Wolf was a character in a series of eight novels that author Louis Joseph Vance wrote starting in 1914, and the first movie starring the character was in 1917, with Bert Lytell in the lead role. There were three movies after that with three different actors in the lead role. Then Lytell returned to the character, and there were many movies in a short period, and then Lytell starred in some sound movies as the character. In the 1940s, Warren William starred in a series of Lone Wolf movies, and then the character was played by Gerald Mohr. There were a few single entries mixed in where other actors played the lead role. In all, there were 24 Lone Wolf movies! The character was a master thief turned detective, and there were several other characters who were very similar, but few had the enduring popularity of The Lone Wolf! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this a very rare complete set of lobby cards for this movie (we have only auctioned one complete set of cards for this title in all of our years of auctioning and that was 13 years ago!) Condition: good to very good. Three have a few small tears around the edges that have been repaired with tape from the back and several have some tiny pinholes around the edges. The title card has a tiny tear in the upper left blank corner that has been repaired with tape from the back. Overall the set has a few edge defects but is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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