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The International Appeal of Cinema A movie house in Havana, Cuba, in 1933 showing two American films made in 1932: El Rey de la Plata (Silver Dollar) starring Edward G. Robinson, and 6 horas de Vida (Six Hours to Live) featuring Warner Baxter. The partially visible poster in the upper right is advertising El último varon sobre la Tierra (The Last Man on Earth), an American-produced Spanish-language movie starring Raul Roulien, first released in Spain in January 1933.(Walker Evans [1903–1975]/© Copyright 1933. Cinema, 1933, printed ca. 1970. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Arnold H. Crane, 1971 [1971.646.12)] © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA/Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Image source: Art Resource, NY)