THE IMPORTANT WITNESS 1933 Crime Drama Noel Francis, Don Dillaway & Noel Madison

Description

Vintage original 11x14 in. US lobby card
from the 1930s poverty row crime drama,
THE IMPORTANT WITNESS
, produced by Tower Productions and released 1933 and
directed by Sam Newfield
. A public stenographer (Noel Francis), taking private dictation, sees a gangster shot in his room and she is taken along by the killers. The gang-chief falls for her and she plays along to lull his suspicions, eventually making her escape. She takes a night-bus back to Los Angeles in order to give testimony that will clear her girl-friend who has been falsely accused of the killing. But the gang pursues her and she has to take over driving the bus when the driver is shot.
The image features an interior medium shot of pretty blonde Ellen Kelly (
Noel Francis
) as she grabs the arm of Gus Miranda (
Noel Madison
) in concern as he reacts to the news in the newspaper he's holding while Steve Connors (
Don Dillaway
) looks at the woman. The border artwork in the left side features a drawing of the speeding night-bus that Ellen takes get back to Los Angeles with a countryscape scene in the background. The color tints on this card are really extraordinary and feature beautiful shades of deep blue. This vintage original lobby card appears to be unused in fine+ to very fine- condition with only a small 0.5 in. long "ding" on the top border to the right of center (a semi-circular crease) with a 0.25 in. semi-circular crease 2 in. to the right of it; a light 1 in. diagonal crease on the top border near the right corner; a 1 in. vertical crease in the top right corner along the right border; a 0.75 in. diagonal crease and a tiny chip on the bottom eight corner; 0.25 in. of wear on the edge of the top border near the right corner; and a slightly rounded bottom left corner.
Provenance:
The Collection of Morris Everett Jr.
The Important Witness
; Tower Productions; 1933; dir: Sam Newfield; cast: Noel Francis, Don Dillaway, Dorothy Burgess, Noel Madison, Sarah Padden, Franklin Pangborn, Robert Ellis, Harry Myers, Charles Delaney, Paul Fix, Ben Hendricks Jr., Ethel Wales, Gladys Blake, Mary Dunn, John Deering.