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Auction History Result 4w048 FACE A LA MORT linen French 23x32 '25 art of soldier Harry Piel carrying gun rack by Gaillant! Date Sold 9/13/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French "Affiche" Movie Poster (23x32; measures 23" x 31") (Learn More) Au Secours!! (literally translates to "Help!!"), the 1925 Harry Piel & Gerard Bourgeois silent French/German military crime thriller starring Harry Piel, Denise Legeay, Jose Davert, Fred Berger, Dary Holm, and Marguerite Madys. Note that the IMDb says that this movie's "original title" was "Face a la Mort" (which literally translates to "Facing Death"), but that it was released in France as "Au Secours" and in Germany as "Schneller als der Tod". We assume that means that "Face a la Mort" was a working title, and the only poster we have seen for this movie has "Au Secours" (which translates to "Help"). It appears this movie was never released in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that co-director Harry Piel was a major figure in early cinema. He wrote and directed his first movie when he was just 20 years old in 1912, and he made several movies over the next three years, and then began acting in them as well! He made many movies over the next decades. In 1933, he joined the Nazi party and made movies for them. In 1934, he made Der Herr der Welt, a science fiction movie with robots, but he had actually used robots in a movie he made in 1915! At the end of World War II, he was sentenced to 6 months in jail and banned from the film industry for 5 years. In 1950, he started a new film company, but did not have much success, and he retired in 1953 and passed away in 1961. Unfortunately, almost all the negatives of his silent films were destroyed when Germany was bombed during World War II, so few of his films survive, and that, combined with his Nazi collaboration, has caused him to be largely forgotten, except by major film buffs. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Gaillant Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this partially French movie! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster was never folded and had darkened somewhat, but was otherwise in nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but at some point after it was backed, the bottom 8" of the poster and the linen became water stained and creased, and there was a diagonal crease in the top right corner of the poster and the linen. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have further restoration performed! Learn More about condition grades 
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