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Auction History Result 4a459 NAVY SPY/CAPTAIN CALAMITY pressbook '47 Conrad Nagel, George Houston, oceanic thrillers! Date Sold 1/22/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) the 1947 double-bill release of Navy Spy, the 1937 Crane Wilbur romantic military Secret Service kidnapping crime thriller (about a U.S. Secret Service agent who is assigned to find the inventor of a fantastic "vapor fuel", who has been kidnapped by spies and taken on a ship, along with a nightclub dancer he was involved with; the agent stows away on the ship, along with a female agent, and together they are able to rescue the inventor who has been tortured, but his girlfriend is killed at the film's climax) starring Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Judith Allen, Jack Doyle, and Phil Dunham AND Captain Calamity, the 1936 John Reinhardt seafaring adventure thriller ("Trouble was his middle name... and loving a gift!"; "ROMANCE! THRILLS! GLORIOUS SONGS! With the screen's newest singing sensation in a gripping romantic drama."; "He hunted for pirate gold and found a sweetheart treasure!"; "He was a two-fisted singing sea-ranger... who never side-stepped trouble or a sweetheart... and found plenty of both as he battled as desperate a band of cutthroats as ever ranged the South Seas!") starring George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Juan Torena, Movita (billed as "Movita of 'Mutiny on the Bounty'"), and Roy D'Arcy. Note that Movita had just made Mutiny on the Bounty before she made this movie, so she was given prominent billing as described above, but oddly, she was not pictured on the advertising! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut and it is folded across the middle. It has slightly darkened unevenly. Learn More about condition grades 
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