eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4k0456 UNDERCOVER MAN 6sh 1942 art of William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, Paramount poster becomes UA! Date Sold 5/28/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Six-Sheet Movie Poster (6sh; measures 81" x 81" [206 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Clarence E. Mulford's Undercover Man, the 1942 Lesley Selander cowboy western ("Two Hopalongs ride in the night! One for murder! The other for revenge!"; "Based on Characters Created by Clarence E. Mulford"; in this unusual entry, Hoppy is a guest at a Mexican hacienda, and someone impersonates both Hoppy and the owner of the hacienda, and it is someone staying at the hacienda, who has access to both their clothes; but Hoppy solves the mystery!) starring William Boyd (as Hopalong Cassidy), Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Antonio Moreno, Nora Lane, Chris Pin Martin, and Bill George 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 is a REALLY fascinating movie poster! I had always known that Paramount Pictures released the very first Hopalong Cassidy movie in 1935, and that in 1942, Paramount studios sold the rights to a number of its 1942 and 1943 movies to United Artists (this related to shortages caused by the U.S. entering World War II), and this included this just made Hopalong Cassidy movie, and the later Hopalong Cassidy movies. So those were released by United Artists, and not Paramount. But this poster has something I don't recall ever seeing in a major studio release! The poster was entirely printed as a Paramount poster, with the Paramount logo in the lower right and "A Paramount Picture" in the middle left as well. But because of the deal where Paramount sold the rights to this movie to United Artists, after the poster was printed, they printed a very large studio-issued corrective credits snipe, which not only covered the bottom right credits area, and they also put a small snipe over the Paramount credit at middle left that reads "Released thru United Artists"! I have never seen or heard of ANY studio doing this with any movie in the middle of its release (printing posters for one studio and then switching to another), other than this single title, and it fills in a fascinating gap in the history of this beloved series! We also auctioned a one-sheet from this title that had been printed as a Paramount one-sheet and had similar snipes. Condition: very good. There are some tiny brown dot stains and small tears on part of one fold that was on the outside when it was fully folded. There are some creases and several tears along the folds that were on the outside when the poster was fully folded. There are some creases, smudges, and tiny tears on the other folds, and some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds. Learn More about condition grades
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