Vintage original 41 x 81 in. US three-sheet poster from the late 1920s silent serial, THE FATAL WARNING, released in 15 chapters by Mascot Pictures Corporation and directed by Richard Thorpe.
 
Issued for Episode No. 7, The Clutching Hand, the image depicts co-stars Ralph Graves (left) and Helene Costello as Graves is ambushed by two men. This three-sheet is a stone lithograph, which prosuces bold, rich colors and very fine detail. It is unrestored with strips of archival tape on the verso bracing the near complete fold separation. The poster comes in three panels as originally printed.
 
Provenance: The Dwight Manley Collection.
 
*"The Fatal Warning is a 1929 mystery silent film serial directed by Richard Thorpe for Mascot. The film is considered to be a lost film, with no prints known to exist. It co-starred Boris Karloff. 
*(source: Wikipedia)
 
*"One of the last (if not the last) silent serials made by Nat Levine's Mascot Pictures Corp. The economy-minded Levine skimped on this 10-chapter production in preparation for the far more expensive talkie serial, The King of the Kongo (1929), which would be released about 6 months later.
 
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name."
*(source: IMDb)
 
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