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The Grim Game
An escape artist plays a man framed for murder, and does his own falling.
What
A 1919 one-sheet for the Famous Players-Lasky feature directed by Irvin Willat.
Why
The picture is remembered for a mid-air collision between two biplanes that was filmed by accident and kept in the finished film. It was thought lost for decades before a print surfaced in 2015, making the surviving advertising the only evidence most audiences had of it.
Notice
The aeroplanes worked into the composition — the stunt sold as the story, which is what it was.
“Danger, advertised as the plot.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Grim Game (1919), dir. Irvin Willat
- Country / studio
- United States · Famous Players-Lasky / Paramount Pictures
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- U.S. one-sheet, 1919
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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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.
Pair it in the gallery →A house of the Provenance family