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Auction History Result 8s164 ACROSS TO SINGAPORE 28x40 special poster 1928 Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, 2 half-sheets! Date Sold 8/19/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Special Movie Poster (measures 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" [70 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Across to Singapore, the 1928 William Nigh silent romantic love triangle seafaring ship adventure thriller ("From the story by Ben Ames Williams"; the story had been made in 1923 under its original title of All the Brothers Were Valiant, and was remade again in 1953, again with the original title; about seafaring brothers who are both in love with the same beautiful woman; she marries one, but after there is a mutiny and the girl is kidnapped, the brother who didn't marry her realizes that she truly loves his brother and he gives his life to save both of them) starring Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence, Frank Currier, Dan Wolheim, and Anna May Wong 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 many collectors do not know it, but "half-sheets" were almost always printed with two of them together on a single sheet that measured 28" x 44". After they were printed, they were cut perfectly in half, and then distributed to theaters. When there were two styles of half-sheets, they would print one style on top and one on the bottom. Very, very few of these uncut "double half-sheets" survive! In this case, the two half-sheets from two different styles of half-sheet from this 1927 Lillian Gish movie (and in the case of this movie, not only have we never auctioned either of these half-sheets before, but we have also never auctioned even one poster from this movie, only lobby cards! Also note that this poster was folded, and because it would damage it to ship it rolled in a tube, we will leave it folded and ship it in a standard flat package. Condition: good. Some theater received these two half-sheets and instead of cutting them apart, they likely wanted to display them like a one-sheet, so they trimmed a large amount of the top and bottom blank borders, and a small amount of the left and right blank borders (to 27 1/2" x 40 1/4") and then folded the two posters like a one-sheet, and the combined special poster measures almost exactly 11" x 14" when completely folded (and it is currently stored that way, and will be shipped that way). The special poster is darkened on all the folds and in the borders but is not very fragile. The winning bidder of this auction could choose to display the two posters together as it is, separate them and display them, or choose to restore them, either together or separated. We leave that to the new owner of this super scarce set of two uncut half-sheets. Learn More about condition grades 
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