eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7e259 LONG NIGHT linen 1sh '47 cool noir artwork of Henry Fonda & Barbara Bel Geddes! Date Sold 3/5/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Long Night, the 1947 Anatole Litvak romantic love triangle crime film noir murder thriller ("Love that promised the world... but paid off in bullets!"; "Bullets only kill..but love can hurt!"; "A boy betrayed by love defies the world!"; "Based on a story by Jacques Viot") starring Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, and Howard Freeman. Note that this movie is a remake of the classic 1939 French movie, "Le Jour se Leve" starring Jean Gabin, which many consider to be one of the very first French film noirs, which themselves were inspired by 1930s U.S. gangster movies. The movie closely follows the plot and format of the 1939 original, which begins with a man barricading himself in an apartment with weapons and defying the police to capture him, and then the rest of the movie is a flashback explaining how he found himself in this deadly situation. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had a long V-shaped tear in the top center, extending into the top of Fonda's head. It had a scuff mark at the tip of Bel Geddes' nose and a pen mark on Fonda's cheek at bottom left. There was tiny paper loss at each crossfold and many pinholes around the edges with paper loss in the bottom right corner. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. That seems odd to me, because the defects are quite noticeable. I would imagine another restorer could touch up those areas without re-backing the poster, but please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly re-restored! Learn More about condition grades
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