Poster, Movie - "Henry Starr, A Debtor to the Law"
Object number2009.022.01
Date1919
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions42 1/2 x 27 in. (108 x 68.6 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionOne sheet movie poster from the movie "Debtor to the Law." The autobiographical film starred bank robber Heny Starr as himself. Starr robbed the bank in Bentonville in 1893 and was killed robbing a bank in Harrison in 1921.Henry Starr was an outlaw best known as a bank robber and horse thief born in 1874. He spent five years in prison for a botched bank robbery before going on to make a movie of that robbery, "A Debtor to the Law." Henry Starr robbed the bank in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 1893 and was killed while robbing a bank in Harrison, Arkansas, in 1921.
Original color poster from the 1919 autobiographical silent movie about the life of a famous outlaw, "Debtor to the Law." The movie starred the outlaw Henry Starr as himself. The poster shows Starr and another man sitting outdoors and going through a bag of stolen money. Starr is wearing a white shirt, brown pants, and a brown hat. There is a rifle propped in the right corner. There is red and yellow print on a black background at the bottom of the poster. Almost five years after being shot and arrested while robbing a bank in Oklahoma, Starr returned to the town he had robbed to make a movie about it. Reportedly, Starr used some of the tellers he had robbed and the man that had shot him in the film. A Pan-American Motion picture.
Status
Not on view
ca 1910-1920
