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Auction History Result 6h0818 FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR linen 1sh 1932 banker goes rich to broke because of Demon Rum, rare! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Face on the Barroom Floor, the 1932 Bertram Bracken (billed as "Bert Bracken") drinking alcoholism melodrama ("The greatest fight in the history of the screen!"; "Heart throbs and gangsters! Divine tenderness and bootleggers! Oh, what a picture!"; "For once, the 'wets' and 'drys' agree! All pronounce it the screen's greatest accomplishment!"; "From the Hallowed Sanctity of a Happy Home - to the Curse of the Demon Rum."; "With Hollywood's greatest players"; "Story by - Aubrey Kennedy"; about a husband and wife where the husband is a successful banker, but he never drinks because there is a family history of alcoholism, but then his wife insists he start drinking occasionally to "be social", and before long, he is a raving alcoholic, who loses everything he has) starring Dulcie Cooper, Bramwell Fletcher, Walter Miller, Maurice Black, Eddie Fetherston, Alice Ward, Phillips Smalley, "and a Score of Others". Note that this movie was one of the very first talking movies against alcohol and the problems it caused, having been made just shortly after Prohibition's repeal. It bears a marked similarity to both "The Lost Weekend" and "The Days of Wine and Roses". 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 we have only previously auctioned two examples of this one-sheet, and only one in the last 11 years! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had small tears and small paper loss on parts of the folds and in parts of the borders. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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