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9g048 SUSPICION linen insert '41 Alfred Hitchcock, different images of Cary Grant & Fontaine!

Date Sold 6/9/2013
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More)

Suspicion, the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock crime film noir mystery thriller ("Each time they kissed... There was the thrill of love... The threat of murder!"; "She won your heart in 'Rebecca'! He drew your cheers in 'Philadelphia Story'. Thrill to them together in a suspense-romance directed by the man who did 'Rebecca'"; "Screen play by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville [Hitchcock's wife]"; "Based on the novel 'Before the Fact' by Francis Iles"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Lumsden Hare, Vernon Downing, and Auriol Lee. Note that there is controversy about the ending of this movie! Many people say that Hitchcock intended the movie to end with Grant killing Fontaine, and that the studio insisted that he change it (to preserve Grant's positive public image), but others say that this is an urban legend, and that the movie was always intended to end the way it did!
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Important Added Info: Note that original 1941 U.S. posters from this title are quite rare! It is probably because the movie was re-released in both 1953 and in 1957, and it is likely that poster exchanges used up all of their 1941 posters during those re-releases. In all our years of auctioning, we have only ever before auctioned a single 1941 window card and a few 1941 lobby cards!

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had creases, scuffs, and fine surface paper loss on parts of the foldlines, and some creases and scuffs scattered throughout the image. There were many tiny pairs of staple holes around the edges of the poster and some scattered down the center of the poster, including two tiny holes in the bridge of Grant's nose at top center. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. From a reasonable viewing distance, the poster displays pretty well (you can tell it has the defects described above, but they are not all that distracting, and they establish that it is the ultra rare original poster!). I think most collectors would be happy to display it just as it is, but certainly, someone could choose to have some additional restoration performed, most likely without re-backing the poster.
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