eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7k705 PHENIX CITY STORY style B 1/2sh '55 classic noir, it took the military to subdue their sin! Date Sold 5/21/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) The Phenix City Story, the classic 1955 Phil Karlson Alabama newspaper journalism reporter crime film noir melodrama ("Shocking Expose of U.S.A.'s Wickedest City!"; "It shocked the Nation in LIFE, LOOK, and the Saturday Evening Post!"; "Welcome to Phenix City Alabama"; "It's blistering expose won the Pulitzer Prize for the Columbus Ledger!"; "Filmed on the spot in the sin town it took the military to subdue!"; "It took the MILITARY to subdue its rampant corruption and violence!"; "Filmed WHERE IT HAPPENED in the Alabama Sin Town LIFE and LOOK called 'AMERICA'S WICKEDEST CITY'!"; "Exposed in LIFE, LOOK, SAT. EVE. POST, TIME and NEWSWEEK"; "Its flaming expose won the Pulitzer Prize"; "SHOCKING? Yes... But it had to be made! SENSATIONAL? Yes... But true! VIOLENT? Yes... But a warning to all of us!"; about a man who returns to his hometown to find it very corrupt) starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, Meg Miles, and James Edwards NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Note that this item (and others we are auctioning in this set of auctions) come to us from the estate of Lee Sanders. Mr. Sanders was a nationally recognized projectionist, film poster collector, and union activist who passed away last year, and the net proceeds from the sale of his varied and eclectic collection will be donated to promote film studies at the Besant School of Happy Valley in Ojai, Ca. Condition: good to very good. There is wear and small bits of paper loss along the foldlines and/or crossfold(s). Learn More about condition grades
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