Noah's Ark [Photoplay Edition]

[a good sound copy, slight wear to a couple of corners, very faint dampstain at bottom edge of front cover, minor soiling to bottom of text block; the jacket is kind of a mess however, with heavy edgewear, some degree of paper loss at all fold-points, age-darkening, internal staining, etc.] (15 B&W film stills) Novelization of the big Warner Bros. epic of the season, "an enthralling romance of today that finds its parallel in the times when the Great Flood engulfed the world," told in the Modern-day vs. Biblical-times cinematic format popularized earlier in the decade by Cecil B. DeMille. The modern part of the story takes place amidst "the mad whirlpool of war," and concerns a international group of characters, notably an actress-dancer (played in the movie by Dolores Costello) who "finds herself a thread in the entangling shuttle of fate that leads her to days of old when men worshipped strange gods." (And to think that just a few years earlier, Zanuck was writing dog pictures) The movie, made during the transition from silent films to talking pictures, was actually a "part-talkie," directed by Michael Curtiz; Costello's co-star was George O'Brien, with Noah Beery as the villain. The format of this photoplay edition is somewhat unusual, in that the photographic plates inserted in the text are printed with stills on both sides, i.e. there are 14 stills on 7 plates, plus the frontispiece, for a total of 15.

Product Info

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Year: (c.1928)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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