eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8m121 VILLA RIDES paper banner '68 art of Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum & Bronson, Sam Peckinpah! Date Sold 7/5/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Paper Banner (measures 24" x 80" [61 x 203 cm]) (Learn More) Villa Rides, the 1968 Buzz Kulik fictionalized biography of famed Mexican rebel Pancho Villa ("Villa rages! Villa lusts! Villa kills!"; "Swarming, storming, plundering over seething Mexico... The Villistas ride to revenge... Taking the gringo gunrunner with them into one of the hotter hells...."; "Revenge roars across seething Mexico as the Villistas return blow for blow, murder for murder... And a gringo gunrunner gets swept up in the blaze!"; "Screenplay by Robert Towne and Sam Peckinpah"; "Based on the novel 'Pancho Villa' by William Douglas Lansford") starring Yul Brynner (in the title role as Pancho Villa), Robert Mitchum, Grazia Buccella, Herbert Lom, Robert Viharo, and Charles Bronson ("as Fierro"). Note that Sam Peckinpah wrote the original screenplay and was supposed to direct the film, but Yul Brynner didn't like the script (he felt it made his character look like a bad guy). Peckinpah was replaced by Buzz Kulik and the script was extensively rewritten. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that in the 1910s through 1930s, studios would make large cloth banners that movie theaters could hang up above their lobbies (or above their entrances). In the early 1940s, they changed to making paper banners (perhaps there was a cloth shortage during World War II). At first, they were made of one-sheet-like paper, and they didn't survive very well, and they apparently were not very popular, because very few survive. At some point around 1946, they changed to making them out of a heavy paper stock, similar to that used for 40x60s, but measuring 24" x 80". Many people think these became very popular at drive-in theaters, which were then expanding at a major pace throughout the country. The paper banners were very popular until the late 1960s, and then far fewer were made (perhaps corresponding to the decline in popularity of drive-in theaters). We have been consigned a wonderful collection of 133 of these paper banners, and we are auctioning them all, in 133 separate auctions. This is a great opportunity to acquire one or many of these rare posters! Condition: fair. There is paper loss in the middle of the right border and many scuffs scattered throughout. There are some vertical creases and many staple holes around the edges. Learn More about condition grades
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