THE LAST PARADE (1931) Racketeers Crime Drama Jack Holt, Constance Cummings

Description

Vintage original 11x14 in. US title lobby card
from the classic 1930's racketeering-themed crime drama,
THE LAST PARADE
, released in 1931 by Columbia Pictures and
directed by Erle C. Kenton
. War-time buddies Cookie Leonard (Jack Holt) and Mike O'Dowd (Tom Moore) return from World War One and returning home, Mike becomes a police officer, but Cookie finds his old job as a reporter on the Herald is no longer vacant, and he takes up with gangster/bootlegger A. C. Marino (Robert Ellis.) They are both in love with Molly Pearson (Constance Cummings), a nurse who looked after them in a field-hospital in France. Cookie, in order to save someone else, kills Marino, but is charged with murder and is arrested by his old friend Mike. Molly and Mike watch Cookie walk the last mile to the electric chair. The cast includes Steve Pendleton, Jesse De Vorska, Robert Graham, Gino Corrado, Earle D. Bunn, and Vivi.
The image features four difference scenes from the film and include Jack Holt, Tom Moore, and Constance Cummings in both full-color pastel tints as well as a duotone green. This varnish/glossy style title lobby card is unrestored in fair+ condition only with creases of varying sizes, a 2 in. horizontal tear, corner pinholes, and random stains in the borders; and a very light 5 in. horizontal scratch through the bottom of the word "Parade" in the title. The image area is mostly unaffected by the previously mentioned flaws.
The Last Parade
was the first film produced by Harry Cohn's brother Jack, and a version of this film's plot was used in 1937's
End of the Trail,
that also starred Jack Holt as the good-man-gone-wrong who is executed.