MORTAL STORM, THE (1940) Half sheet poster

[Los Angeles]: MGM, [1940]. Vintage original 22 x 28″ (56 x71 cm) half sheet poster. Conserved on linen, with a light vertical crease at center, overall in very nice condition with bright colors. Just about fine.

Frank Borzage directed this anti-Nazi film which starred Margaret Sullivan, James Stewart and Robert Young. A professor, his daughter and her boyfriend see the rise of a violent fascist group in their country, speak out against it, and ultimately seek to escape it. MGM, which was still exporting films to Germany, tried to have it both ways by making the film in the first place, but then making the country a fictional one, not naming the Nazis as such and, while portraying persecutions, not identifying the victims as Jewish.

Posters for this film have always been extremely scarce.