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Auction History Result 7w033 ALFRED THE GREAT 8 LCs '69 David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Clive Donner Date Sold 6/4/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Alfred the Great, the 1969 Clive Donner English Dark Ages historical England medieval action war epic ("To kill was easy. To enjoy it was hard"; "They put a sword into his praying hands"; "A woman could find love where men found only hatred"; "England had hardly been born. Already it was being crucified."; "'From the fury of the Norsemen good Lord deliver us!'"; "This was the England of Alfred the Great"; "In over a thousand years of English glory there has been only one king ever called 'The Great'. At 22, he gained a throne and saved a kingdom."; "The dissenter king"; "Based on a story by James R. Webb") starring David Hemmings (in the title role as Alfred), Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely, Ian McKellen, Peter Vaughan, Alan Dobie, Julian Glover, and Vivien Merchant (billed as "Guest Star Vivien Merchant as Freda") NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a poster or lobby card that was printed by MGM for a European movie that they distributed in the U.S.. Somewhere in the early 1960s, MGM apparently made a huge "trade" deal with European movie distributors. From the early 1960s to the late 1960s, MGM released 100 or more non-U.S. movies in the U.S. under the MGM logo (some dating back to the 1950s), and in return, they apparently gave 100 or more MGM movies (from the 1950s and early 1960s) to those European distributors to release in Europe. All of the posters from both sets of releases have a very similar type of somewhat garish, very colorful artwork, and some have an MGM logo that is different from than on other MGM movies of the same time period, which makes it likely that those (with different logos) are from re-releases. None of these posters (except for the very first few of them) have any dates on them. Over the years, I have seen many of these posters (from both types) sold as first release, but, as stated above, some of these are mid to late 1960s re-releases, and the ones from U.S. movies are "international" posters (or lobby cards) that were used in non-U.S. countries. Condition: good to very good. Some of the cards have some pinholes around the edges and a few smudges from handling. But overall they are in generally nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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