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Auction History Result 7w131 HIGH FLIGHT linen 1sh '57 Ray Milland, military fighter pilots fly top secret jets! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 26" x 41 1/4") (Learn More) High Flight, the 1957 John Gilling military airplane aviation fighter pilot thriller ("The wide sky its stage... The whole range of human emotions it back-drop... In the super-charged drama of the men who fly today's top-secret jets!"; "The screen's thundering salute to the men of the jet armada... and the women whose love flies every mission with them!"; "Today's red-hot jets... Hot off the top-secret list streaking across the screen for the first time!"; "High... High... High above all the rest!"; "Based on an original story by Jack Davies"; "Produced by Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli", note that Broccoli went on to produce the James Bond series of movies, which Irving Allen did not want to produce, because he did not think that they were even good enough for television!; a few years later, Allen tried to make up for his massive blunder by producing the series of Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin, but the only way he could get Martin to star was to make him a partner, which meant that Martin made more money from The Silencers in 1966 than Sean Connery made on Thunderball the previous year, and Connery was not happy about that at all!) starring Ray Milland, Anthony Newley, Bernard Lee, Helen Cherry, and Kenneth Fortescue NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster had had some blank paper trimmed from the left and right blank borders (the restorer did not replace the missing part of the blank borders). Generally, it had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and in the corners, and pretty minor fold and border wear. The poster was not that well backed, because you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I would think few collectors would want to display it as it is, without someone performing some additional restoration. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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