You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1939, crime feature, "The Roaring Twenties".
This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format: Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
In 1919, in the end of the World War I, the G.I. Eddie Bartlett meets George Hally and the student of Law School Lloyd Hart in a trench and sooner the war ends. Back in USA, Eddie is not able to find a job and is sustained by his great friend Danny Green, who offers Eddie to share his cab and make some money working as cab driver. Eddie decides to visit Jean Sherman, who had corresponded with him during the war and is crazy about him, and for his surprise, she is a teenager. In 1920, with the 18th Amendment, the Volstead Act is in force, beginning the period of the unpopular Prohibition. Eddie accidentally meets the owner of a speakeasy Panama Smith, they become close friends and she introduces him in bootlegging of liquor. Eddie becomes rich, meets Jean Sherman again and falls for her. He also raises a profitable partnership with George and Lloyd is hired as his lawyer. In 1924, bootlegging has a grown from individual effort to a big business associated with corruption, violence and murder, and the light machine gun Tommy becomes an important tool in this business. Lloyd and Jean fall in love for each other, and Eddie has a great deception. Later, on 19 October 1929 with the Black Tuesday, Eddie looses all his fortune, and when the Prohibition falls after thirteen years in force, he returns to the activity of cab driver. On the Christmas Eve, when he meets Jean again as a client of his cab, his life is leaded to a tragic end.
Trivia: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031867/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_trv_1
Studio: Warner Bros.
Date: 1939
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir and Thriller
Director(s): Raoul Walsh
Producer(s): Hal B. Wallis and Samuel Bischoff
Cast:
James Cagney - Eddie Bartlett
Priscilla Lane - Jean Sherman
Humphrey Bogart - George Hally
Gladys George - Panama Smith
Jeffrey Lynn - Lloyd Hart
Frank McHugh - Danny Green
Paul Kelly - Nick Brown
Elisabeth Risdon - Mrs. Sherman (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Edward Keane - Henderson (as Ed Keane)
Joe Sawyer - The Sergeant
Joseph Crehan - Michaels
George Meeker - Masters
Slide Condition: EX-NM . Please see the scans for actual condition.
This Movie Glass Slide would make a great addition to your collection or as a Gift (great for Framing in a Shadow Box).
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box . I will combine lots to save on the shipping costs.
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