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The Westerner, the classic 1940 William Wyler vigilante justice cowboy western ("Spectacular! The flaming story of an era...Told with the magic of Goldwyn showmanship!"; "The most sensational action-film since 'The Hurricane'! ...based on the raw drama of a little-known period when Judge Bean was 'the law west of the Pecos'... and Lily Langtry's beauty was in every man's dreams!"; "Like fire across the prairies... a great feud swept the plains!"; "The heart-quickening story of a country wild and young, where a beautiful woman could set a man mad... and cattleman and settler disputed every foot of ground to the death! Emotions as fierce and unbridled as the untamed country which bred this daredevil race of men crowd through this stirring drama... brought to you in spectacular grandeur by the showmanship of Samuel Goldwyn!"; "The Flaming Feud of cowhand and plowhand ...filmed with the sweeping magnitude of Goldwyn master showmanship"; "A great story magnificently told! ...of the bitterness of men and the beauty of women... of fire and hatred... of danger and revenge. Spectacular drama of an era!"; "Exotic Lily Langtry... matching her beauty against a young girl's charm!"; "Now Samuel Goldwyn brings you the most magnificent outdoor spectacle ever filmed!"; "The season's biggest, most important picture!... unfolding a drama of feud and flame that swept the West like a prairie fire. A great story for Goldwyn - great entertainment for you!"; "See settlers ride for their lives... as homes and crops roar up in flames!"; about the legendary Judge Roy Bean, who was the "Law West of the Pecos", and an imagined handsome cowboy who gets Bean together with his longtime love from afar, the "Swedish Nightingale", Lily Langtry!) starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Judge Roy Bean"), Fred Stone, Doris Davenport, Chill Wills, Dana Andrews (very young and ninth-billed in his first major screen role!), Forrest Tucker (in his big screen debut), Lilian Bond (as Lily Langtry), and Hank Bell
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Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this first release pressbook, and that was 9 years ago! Also note that this is one of a remarkable collection of 47 mostly United Artists pressbooks (mostly from the 1930s) that came from the collection of a very longtime collector who recently passed away. Pressbooks like these are almost all incredibly rare and almost never change hands. This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain one or more of these extremely rare pressbooks, all of which are uncut, and several of them have rare supplements or heralds (and if they do, that is noted above).

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. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

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