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Auction History Result #A473 LAST MILE pressbook '32 Phillips, Foster Date Sold 3/9/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (measures 12" x 18"; 8 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 4 pages (Learn More) The Last Mile, the 1932 Samuel Bischoff prison escape murder crime thriller ("From the play that rocked the nation by John Wexley"; much like the much later TV series "The Fugitive", an innocent man is found guilty of the murder of his business partner, and he is sentenced to death row, and his friends try to prove him innocent, but just before he is to be executed, a brutal inmate leads a prison riot, and almost everyone is killed, but the prison officials tell the few remaining convicts that evidence has been found to prove the man innocent, and the inmate leader of the riot walks into the police bullets, effectively committing suicide!) starring Howard Phillips, Preston Foster, Noel Madison, George E. Stone, Alan Roscoe, and Paul Fix. Note that this movie starred Preston Foster as the brutal inmate "Killer" Mears. When the movie was remade in 1959, Mickey Rooney took that same role, and it is hard to see why he wanted to fill Preston Foster's shoes! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. Condition: good. This pressbook is in lesser condition. It has significant defects, such as tears, stains, smudges, and small areas of paper loss around the edges. However, important to note that it is complete and UNCUT, which is unusual, since the purpose of pressbooks was for theaters to cut out one or more of the ads and use them in their local newspapers. It has been folded in half horizontally, which is typical of almost all larger pressbooks. Oversized pressbooks were usually folded in half so that they could be more easily transported. Please do not bid on this pressbook unless you can accept the clear defects that it has (if you look at the images we provide, you should get a good sense of what defects this pressbook has). Learn More about condition grades 
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