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Auction History Result #251 CRIME WAVE 6sh '53 Sterling Hayden Date Sold 7/30/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Six-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 81" x 81") (Learn More) Crime Wave (released other English-speaking countries as "The City Is Dark"), the 1953 Andre de Toth Los Angeles California escaped convicts crime film noir ("Mob-land vengeance pulls the fuse...and The City Is Dark"; "The new Warner Bros. Killers vs. Cops sensation"; "Before your shocked eyes -- the city blasted sin-side out!"; "Every mugger-nest, creep-joint and dim-lit dive busts wide-open in the year's bullet-riddled cops vs. killers sensation!"; "'Scream baby - I don't mind!'"; "The One-Time Loser! Squeezed both ways - by the law and the mob!"; "Chinatown Hideout! Blasted wide open!"; "The 'Badge' - who looks more like a hood than the hoods he rounds up!"; "From a Saturday Evening Post Story by John and Ward Hawkins"; "Sin stalks the sidewalks! Crime crawls in shadow!"; about an ex-con, played by Gene Nelson, who has gone straight, but some of his former crime buddies escape from San Quentin and they take refuge in the ex-con's house, and he is caught between them and the police, who think he is in with them) starring Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Timothy Carey, Ted de Corsia, Jay Novello, Nedrick Young, and an extremely young Charles Bronson (billed as "Charles Buchinsky", his real name). Note that this is an almost completely forgotten film noir, but is is very much in the tradition of "The Asphalt Jungle" and "The Killing", and it has a really first rate cast with the three escapees played by Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, and Charles Bronson! 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: This six-sheet was printed in 4 sections. Condition: good to very good. There is a Canadian censor stamp in the poster (see below). There are many pairs of staple holes, smudges, and creases in the edges of each section as is common with six-sheets. There is some staining under the bottom credits area. Th. There is a Canadian censor stamp in an unobtrusive part of the poster in the lower right. Note that this week on eBay eMoviePoster is selling hundreds of large-sized movie posters. Some of these (mostly three-sheets and six-sheets) were large enough that they were printed on two or more separate sheets (this was because the printing presses at that time could not print larger single sheets). Such posters are designed to overlap, and they have marks at the top and bottom of each section that show where the poster's pieces should be placed so that the poster image is correct. This presents are problem for us in photography! If we put the pieces of poster together prior to photography, it is very time consuming, and difficult to do without possibly damaging the poster, even a little bit. So instead, we photograph each piece of the poster separately, and then digitally combine the separate images, overlapping them so that the image views about the same as it would if the poster pieces were correctly placed together. BUT SINCE THE PIECES ARE SHOT SEPARATELY, THERE IS THE POTENTIAL THAT THE INDIVIDUAL PICTURES WILL HAVE DIFFERENT LIGHTING AND/OR BE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SIZE! So sometimes our images of multi-piece posters will give you the impression that part of the poster is a different darkness or size from the rest of the poster. THIS IS NOT THE CASE! It is just the result of photographing the pieces separately. If the pieces DID have a different color or size, we would note that in the auction description! Learn More about condition grades 
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