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Auction History Result 7b671 TAKE MY LIFE 8x10 still R44 Harlem Dead End Kids, close up of Monte Hawley, Murder Rap! Date Sold 9/10/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1944 Re-release (re-titled "Murder Rap" for this re-release) Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" (8x10) Movie Still (Learn More) Take My Life, the 1941 Harry M. Popkin black African American World War II (WWII) military juvenile delinquent crime murder melodrama ("Harlem Goes to War!"; "Thrill to the Brown Bombers in action"; about a group of tough Harlem street kids who are befriended by a gangster, but when the gangster kills someone, one of the kids is blamed, and the gangster goes on the run, and the kid is sentenced to be executed, but at the end, the gangster is in a car crash, and in the hospital, one of the kids tricks him into thinking he is about to be electrocuted, and he makes a deathbed confession) starring The Harlem Dead End Kids (including Freddie Baker, Jack Carter and DeForst Covan), Monte Hawley, Jeni Le Gon and "An All Star Colored Cast". Note that the screenwriter of this movie clearly heavily borrowed from the James Cagney classic, "Angels with Dirty Faces", but they added a strong patriotic element, having the kids learn all about patriotism from an Army recruiter, and at the end of the movie when they are cleared, they all join the Army and appear in uniform! This was the first movie to show African Americans serving in World War II in a positive light. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good. Note that we show a scan of the front of the still, with a scan of the back of the still beneath it (even if the back is completely blank), so you can see what is on both sides of the still, and also better judge the condition of the still. Learn More about condition grades 
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