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Auction History Result

4w217 STALAG 17 linen style B 1/2sh '53 different image of Holden & POWs whistling by barbed wire!

Date Sold 9/13/2011
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28") (Learn More)

Stalag Seventeen, the classic 1953 Billy Wilder (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) World War II (WWII) military prisoner-of-war (POW) comedy ("The star-spangled laugh-loaded salute to our P.W. heroes!"; "'Stalag 17'...The address - of a prisoner of war camp!"; "Based on the play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski") starring William Holden (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Sefton), Don Taylor (as Lt. Dunbar), Otto Preminger (as the German commandant Col. Von Scherbach), Robert Strauss (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role as Stanislas Kasava), Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves (as Price), Neville Brand, and Sig Ruman (as the German Sgt. Schulz). Can anyone tell me how or why actor Don Taylor was given second billing in this movie? He did not have a major part at all! If anyone knows, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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Important Added Info: Note that this rare style B half-sheet has a line up image of the POW prisoners, which is completely different from that of the other posters from the movie, all of which incorporate a large odd image of the Russian women prisoners being sprayed with a hose (and which is not very relevant to the movie at all!).

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was folded down the middle and there was wear and separation on that fold. There were smudges, scuffs, and some tiny stains scattered in the image, with pinholes, tears, and stains around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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