Freaking awesome photo, it made me watch the film- i've had it a while but you know how it is getting round to watching things
An incredible film. Just read that 30 min was cut but is now lost?
Also read about bloke who played Half Boy, Johnny Eck. Imagine being there and seeing this magic act in the 30s:
copied from wiki
In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show. In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf, who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs. After being sawed in half, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing his legs around the stage, screaming, "Come back!" "I want my legs back!" Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing - people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women - the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause. The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop his legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater.
Gotta love it when older and vintage posters can still pull you in and make you wan to watch a film.
And that's the one aspect I love about this hobby, too. Coming across a great looking poster for a movie that Ive never seen, yet still being drawn to it, and adding it to the collection, PLUS that same poster making me want to check out something I'd never seen before.
It's like a win-win, all the way around.