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4w468 TAKE MY LIFE linen 1sh '41 Harlem's Dead End Kids go to war, an all-colored star cast!

Date Sold 9/13/2011
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

Take My Life, the 1941 Harry M. Popkin black African American World War II (WWII) military juvenile delinquent crime murder melodrama ("Harlem Goes to War!"; "Thrill to the Brown Bombers in action"; about a group of tough Harlem street kids who are befriended by a gangster, but when the gangster kills someone, one of the kids is blamed, and the gangster goes on the run, and the kid is sentenced to be executed, but at the end, the gangster is in a car crash, and in the hospital, one of the kids tricks him into thinking he is about to be electrocuted, and he makes a deathbed confession) starring The Harlem Dead End Kids (including Freddie Baker, Jack Carter and DeForst Covan), Monte Hawley, Jeni Le Gon and "An All Star Colored Cast". Note that the screenwriter of this movie clearly heavily borrowed from the James Cagney classic, "Angels with Dirty Faces", but they added a strong patriotic element, having the kids learn all about patriotism from an Army recruiter, and at the end of the movie when they are cleared, they all join the Army and appear in uniform! This was the first movie to show African Americans serving in World War II in a positive light.
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Important Added Info: Note that in 1944, Toddy Pictures purchased the rights to this 1941 all-black cast movie, and re-titled it and re-released it as "Murder Rap". Sometimes these re-release posters have been mistakenly sold as original releases. This is a very rare first release one-sheet from 1941!

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and some tears and tiny areas of paper loss in the top half of the vertical foldline, in the bottom quarter of the vertical foldline, and with lesser wear on the other folds. There were some stains, tiny tears, and tiny paper loss scattered in the center of the title. There were tears, pinholes, and areas of paper loss in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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