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Auction History Result

1y037 BLACK LEGION insert 1936 Humphrey Bogart, art of hooded Ku Klux Klan-like man, ultra-rare!

Date Sold 12/3/2019
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More)

Black Legion, the 1936 Archie Mayo Ku Klux Klan-like lawyer legal crime thriller (Warner Bros. would not attack the Klan directly by having the group in the movie be actual Ku Klux Klan members, but everybody watching the movie knew what was intended; what is most interesting about the movie is that Bogart plays a pretty nice factory worker who loses his job to an immigrant, and he is convinced to join the Klan, and afterwards, he essentially turns into a really monstrous guy!) starring Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Robert Barrat, Joe Sawyer (billed as "Joseph Sawyer"), Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Paul Harvey, Dickie Jones, and Helen Flint. Note that the Breen office had many problems with the script for this movie (written by Robert Lord, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay), specifically because of the racial and religious prejudice addressed in the movie. It seems that Warner Bros. was unsure of how to best promote this movie. The few original posters we have seen have a very small image of Humphrey Bogart, and he is not billed on the lobby cards!
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Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Not only that, but any first release posters from this movie are incredibly rare. We have never auctioned ANY other first release posters until we were consigned this insert. Note also that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 insert posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 insert posters (note that most post-1970 inserts were NOT machine folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those inserts).

Condition: fair to good. The poster was never folded. It has creases and stains around the edges with stains in the middle of the poster, mostly between the two words of the title (see our image). In spite of its defects this incredibly rare poster could be displayed as it is, or certainly restoration could be performed but bear all this in mind before bidding on this extreme rarity.
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