us-005578-irn614181-irn692971
scope and content: British-Indian herald for the film, “The Last Chance,” originally released in March 1945 in Switzerland as, “Die Letzte Chance.” Heralds were small, inexpensive flyers usually included as part of a film’s press kit. The film won the Grand Prize and the International Peace Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946, the first after the end of the war. Great Britain ruled three-fifths of the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947, and during World War II, received monetary and military support from their allies in the region. The film is set in German-occupied Italy in 1943, and focuses on three Allied soldiers who escape a prisoner-of-war camp and join a group of 14 refugees making a perilous journey to the Swiss border. In reality, the refugees would probably not have been allowed to stay in Switzerland as the government had instituted very strict refugee laws. The lead actors playing the American and British soldiers were actual members of their respective militaries who escaped to Switzerland after being captured. Ray Reagan was in the U.S. Air Force, when his plane was shot down over enemy territory. John Hoy was a British Lieutenant who escaped from an Italian prison camp. E.G. Morrison was also a British soldier, who had been captured by the Germans in North Africa and sent to a camp in Italy, from which he escaped. In addition to the stars, the majority of the cast were also amateur actors. This object is one of more than 1,200 objects in the Cinema Judaica Collection of materials related to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical themes.
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record resource extent: Overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
date: 1946 August 28, 1945 May 26
history: The Cinema Judaica Collection consists of more than 1,200 objects relating to films about World War II and the Holocaust as well as Jewish, Israeli, and biblical subjects, from 1923 to 2000, from the United States, Europe, Israel, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina. The collection was amassed by film memorabilia collector Ken Sutak, to document Holocaust-and Jewish-themed movies of the World War II era and the postwar years. The collection includes posters, lobby and photo cards, scene stills, pressbooks, trade ads, programs, magazines, books, VHS tapes, DVDS, and 78 rpm records. Sutak organized these materials into two groups, “Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939–1949” and “Cinema Judaica: The Epic Cycle, 1950–1972” and, in conjunction with the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum (now the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in New York), organized exhibitions on these two themes in 2007 and 2008. Sutak subsequently authored companion books with the same titles.
has or had holder: us-005578
title: English-language international herald for the film “The Last Chance” (1945)
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history: The herald was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Ken Sutak and Sherri Venokur.
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has or had some members with language: eng
type: RecordSet
physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Double-sided advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, white paper. The front side has a horizontal orientation and is printed in dark blue ink. Spanning the top is a wide banner containing an illustration of a mountain landscape and advertising copy printed in large, white text. Overlaid on the band in the center and right side is a strip of four images, each containing an illustrated scene from the film and advertising copy in the upper right corner. To the left and below the strip is the production company and film title in large text. Directly beneath the title are additional production credits in smaller text and a quote from a review in white, within a dark blue ribbon. To the right of the title is a large photographic image of a man and woman with their foreheads together, depicted from the shoulders up. At the bottom of the advertisement are two columns of black text with specific information about the theater and show times. The back of the advertisement has a vertical orientation and is printed in black ink. At the top is a header containing information about the theater and show times for various, unrelated films. Below is a table with four columns, listing a series of dates, film tiles, distributors, and featured actors. Depicted: John Hoy as Lt. John Halliday, Luisa Rossi as Tonina
identifier: irn692971