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The Crimson City

Four figures under a lantern and red curtains.

What

A 1928 Warner Bros. one-sheet for The Crimson City, an American drama released with a synchronized Vitaphone score.

Why

Archie Mayo directed it, with Myrna Loy and Anna May Wong in the cast, and Warner Bros. released it on April 7, 1928.

Notice

The side borders are columns of Chinese-style characters, and the title is set in brush-style capitals in quotation marks.

“A scored melodrama in red”

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 18x24" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
The Crimson City (1928), dir. Archie Mayo
Country / studio
United States · Warner Bros.
Format
One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
Poster published
U.S. one-sheet, colour lithograph, 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.

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