Highly rare and essentially perfect vintage blue ballpoint pen signature of the autograph-shunning director on a 4x6-inch tan album page, acquired in-person by a busy autograph hound in the late 1950s or early 1960s. In very good condition and choice for matting with a favorite photograph. Highlights of legendary one-eyed director Raoul Walsh's career, which spanned much of the silent era straight through the end of Hollywood's Golden Age, include The Monkey Talks (1927), Sadie Thompson (1928), The Loves of Carmen (1929), The Roaring Twenties (1939), They Drive by Night (1940), High Sierra (1941), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Gentleman Jim  (1942), The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945), Objective, Burma! (1945), Colorado Territory (1949), White Heat (1949), Battle Cry (1955), The Tall Men (1955), Band of Angels (1957), and The Naked and the Dead (1958).

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