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Auction History Result 4h980 FIGHTING BLOOD 2 chapter 11 LCs '24 great boxing images, serial, When Gale and Hurricane Meet Date Sold 10/16/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #11 (When Gale and Hurricane Meet) Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Fighting Blood, the 1924 Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series ("It's a knockout"; "H.C. Witwer's famous Collier's Weekly Stories"; "It's an F.B.O. picture") starring George O'Hara, ("and all star cast") Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. Note that the IMDb lists the director of this movie as Malcolm St. Clair, but the one-sheet for this serial clearly identifies the director as Al Santell, so it is just one more case of the IMDb having incorrect information! Also note that this poster shows a Pit Bull dog that has a circle around one eye, which is exactly what became Pete the Pup's trademark in the "Our Gang" films, but his first appearance in an "Our Gang" film was not until 1925, so either this is just a coincidence, or perhaps Hal Roach got the idea from this earlier dog. Also note that H.C. Witwer is virtually forgotten today, but in his time (the 1920s), he was perhaps America's foremost short story writer of stories dealing with sports, and he published over 400 stories in his lifetime, which was not a long life, because he sadly died in 1929 from liver failure, and surely would have written a great many more stories had he lived longer (he was just 39 when he died). Many of his stories were adapted into films, including "The Leather Pushers" series of boxing movies, and the "Racing Blood" series of horse racing movies, among many others. In 1929, he sued Harold Lloyd for plagiarism of one of his short stories in Lloyd's "The Freshman", and he died during the trial, but his wife continued the lawsuit after his death, and she was awarded $2.3 million (in 1929 dollars!), but the judgement was overturned, and she received nothing. Witwer produced some of the movies made from his stories, and it is sad that he is so completely forgotten. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of 19 complete and incomplete lobby card sets from silent movies that were recently discovered! All of the cards were used to hold sheet music, which was exactly one half the size of a lobby card. So the piano players at silent theaters would fold a lobby card in half and then use it as a holder for the sheet music, which was on thin paper! All of the cards in these 19 sets have been folded in half, and all have the name of a specific movie with some added instructions written on the back of the right half of the card, but the writing does not affect the front, and it is kind of a cool addition to each card! Condition: good. The top card has 4" of separation at the bottom of the fold. The other card has surface paper loss to the left and right of the bottom center. All of the cards have been folded in half . Some have some slight separation on the fold and some have some tiny paper loss at the top or bottom (see our image for a better sense of the exact condition of these cards). Other than these defects, the cards are in pretty nice condition, especially considering their age! Learn More about condition grades 
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