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Spione

Every glance in the crowd may already be watching you.

What

Glen Cravath's 1928 one-sheet for the MGM/UFA release of Fritz Lang's espionage thriller Spione (Spies).

Why

Lang distilled the modern spy film here — hidden networks, master criminals and surveillance — a decade before the genre had a name.

Notice

Notice the tight, watchful framing that makes the viewer feel observed in turn.

“The age of the hidden eye.”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Spione (1928), dir. Fritz Lang
Country / studio
Germany · UFA / Fritz Lang-Film (MGM release)
Designer
Glen Cravath
Format
One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
Poster published
US one-sheet (MGM-UFA release), 1928
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.

In the room

Where it would hang

The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.

The Spione one-sheet reproduction, framed in an Art Deco drawing room
The drawing room

The Double Bill

Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.

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