Jack Lait THE BEAST OF THE CITY 1932 MGM Photoplay

Description: eBay Listing - Newport Vintage Books - The Beast of the City by Jack Lait -- PhotoPlay Edition -- 1932 MGM Film The Beast of the City - PhotoPlay Edition [1932 MGM Film starring Jean Harlow & Walter Huston] Digitally Remastered Dustjacket Only [Book is NOT included] Jack Lait [Artwork by Mach Tey] © 1932 - Grosset & Dunlap Printing - American Pre-Code Gangster Film High Quality Digitally Remastered Laser Reproduction of Original Dustjacket We will be offering a selection of several digitally remastered dustjackets in our eBay listings !! Here is a nice opportunity to enjoy the original artwork while saving on the cost of an original dustjacket. See my listings for more. Several different classic PhotoPlay & mystery jackets available. All digitally remastered dustjackets are shipped in a removable, Brodart or Demco archival dustjacket protector, and are ready to place on your book. Due to the scarcity of this dustjacket, I have added an embossed digital watermark to these images to avoid unauthorized duplication. The embossed watermark will NOT appear over the artwork on the front panel. The counter-stamps identifying this as a reproduction WILL appear discretely on the flaps only. About Jackets: The dustjacket offered in this auction is digitally scanned from a high quality original. The master is then carefully restored to remove any minor imperfections. This significantly enhances the eye appeal rather than just offering a color photocopy with flaws. Great care is taken to painstakingly retouch these images with emphasis on maintaining the full scope of the original artwork and preserving the texture and granularity of the original. The dustjacket is then printed on an industrial quality machine which far exceeds the image quality possible on any inkjet printer, and produces sharper, crisper images and much better color definition (tone, hue & saturation) with pleasing results. About Postage: Combined shipping: Dustjackets are shipped boxed & wrapped via USPS First Class Parcel. First remastered dustjacket is $3.00. Each additional dustjacket is only 50c. Any extra postage charged at eBay checkout will be refunded. About Title: Everyone has been shocked and thrilled by stories of girls in big cities who are framed, shaken down and railroaded to reformatories on faked charges of paid immorality, but no one has before written of what happens to such girls after they come out, embittered, soiled by association with the lowest types of their sex, branded for life with the scarlet scar of a record -- for the vilest accusation that can be made against a woman. Jack Lait, who knows his police, stool pigeons, shysters and shylocks, here clicks off the sizzling story of one blonde sister AFTER she was "sprung". About Author: Jack Lait [1883-1954] was a popular American journalist and leading Chicago newspaper columnist of the 1940s & 50s famous for his "Confidential" books including NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL, CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL, WASHINGTON CONFIDENTIAL and USA CONFIDENTIAL. He also wrote several novelizations and screenplays for many popular MGM films including Broadway Melody (1929); The Big House (1930) and most famously The Beast of the City (1932) starring Jean Harlow along with the RKO film Bad Company (1931). About Movie: Police Captain Jim Fitzpatrick (Walter Huston) is a dedicated family man and crime fighter not averse to using violence to fight violence. Although he's been demoted for political reasons, public outcry forces the mayor to take more aggressive action against sleazy gang boss Sam Belmonte (Jean Hersholt), and Fitzpatrick is promoted to police chief. His younger brother, Police Detective Ed Fitzpatrick (Wallace Ford), allows himself to be seduced by a languorously sexy Belmonte gang moll (Jean Harlow) and needs money to continue the relationship. Frustrated when his principled brother will not promote him, he betrays Jim's trust by conspiring with Belmonte's henchmen in a truck hijacking that results in the deaths of a child and another police officer. After a crooked lawyer is able to get those guilty off on all charges, the relentlessly determined Chief turns to vigilantism to rid the city of its "Beasts." [Credit: Wikipedia] The movie cast included: [Citation: Internet Movie Database - IMDB] Actor/Actress: Role: Walter Huston Jean Harlow Wallace Ford Jean Hersholt Dorothy Peterson Tully Marshall John Miljan Emmett Corrigan Warner Richmond J. Carrol Naish George Chandler Robert Homans Ethan Laidlaw Tom London Morgan Wallace Leo White Mickey Rooney Captain Jim Fitzpatrick Daisy Stevens/Mildred Beaumont Detective Ed Fitzpatrick Samuel "Sam" Belmonte Mary Fitzpatrick Defense Attorney Michaels District Attorney Police Chief "Burt" Burton Police Lieutenant Tom Pietro Cholo Reporter Policeman (uncredited) Nightclub Patron (uncredited) Policeman (uncredited) Police Captain (uncredited) Arrested Man (uncredited) Son of Captain Jim Fitzpatrick (uncredited) [first MGM feature]

Price: 17 USD

Location: Fairhaven, Massachusetts

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