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Auction History Result 3a150 THIRD MAN linen French 23x31 '49 Orson Welles, Cotten & Valli, classic noir, rare & different! Date Sold 12/11/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French "Affiche" Movie Poster (23x32; measures 23 1/4" x 31" [59 x 79 cm]) (Learn More) The Third Man (also released as "The 3rd Man"), the classic 1949 Carol Reed (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English Vienna Austria crime film noir murder mystery mistaken identity thriller ("Cats loved him... And so did Women!"; "What a chase he led them!"; "He'll put you in a dither with his Zither"; based on a story "by Graham Greene"; "Hunted by men... Sought by women!"; "Presented by Alexander Korda and David O. Selznick"; about a man going to visit his old friend in post-War Vienna, and when he gets there, he discovers that the friend is dead, or is he?) starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli (billed as "Valli"), Orson Welles (even though Welles only appears in a small portion of the movie, he dominates it!), Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Horbiger, and Hedwig Bleibtreu. Note that the musical score for this movie was by Austrian zither musician Anton Karas, and it was so memorable that they even made a tagline about it ("He'll put you in a dither with his Zither"). Also note that this was intended to be the first of several movies with producers David Selznick and Alexander Korda, but the men clashed frequently during the making of the movie, and they never worked together again. Also note that Orson Welles clashed with director Carol Reed, and reportedly, he wrote much of his character's dialog in the movie, and made other contributions to the script that likely drove Reed crazy! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Claire Finel Important Added Info: Note that this poster is extremely rare. We have never auctioned it (or any other first release French posters) before! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had many creases and scuffs down the center, and some scattered through the rest of the image, mostly in the solid black areas. It appears there may have been a snipe glued over the bottom credits area, because there are what look like light glue stains. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. In spite of the above defects (the scuffs and smudges scattered throughout), the poster can certainly still be displayed and enjoyed as it is. Note that a previous owner did just that, and the poster was attached to a mat with tape on the back of parts of the borders of the linen, and that tape was mostly removed from the back, and there is some slight stickiness on parts of the back of the borders, where there was once tape (this does not harm the poster, and it can be easily removed with a solvent by any professional or talented amateur, and of course, it will not matter if the poster is re-framed with a mat behind it). Learn More about condition grades 
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