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Auction History Result 5b125 HIGH SIERRA linen Belgian '40s Humphrey Bogart as Mad Dog Killer Roy Earle, different art! Date Sold 3/7/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1940s (probably 1944 or 1945; from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 10 3/4" x 14" [27 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) High Sierra, the classic 1941 Raoul Walsh crime film noir ("He killed, and there on the edge of the crest of Sierra's highest crag... he must be killed!"; "Blazing Mountain Man-Hunt for Killer 'Mad-Dog' Earle!"; "Towering thrills with this year's academy award star!"; "The blazing mountain man-hunt for killer 'Mad Dog' Earle!"; "'This is the most exciting story I know!' - says ace story-teller and columnist Mark Hellinger"; "No man ever reached greater heights... to wait for death!"; "If you liked 'They Drive By Night' wait 'til you see... 'High Sierra'"; from a novel by W.R. Burnett) starring Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart (in one of his best roles, and the movie that helped elevate him from second-tier status to first-rate star!; as Mad Dog Roy Earle), Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Minna Gombell, Barton MacLane, Jerome Cowan, Elisabeth Risdon, and Cornell Wilde (15th billed in his first credited role) 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 we can't say for certain when this movie was released in Belgium. It was released in Sweden in 1941, so it played in at least one European country in that year. But it was not released in France until 1947, so it would seem to surely date from between 1941 and 1947. But because the poster is printed in a very small size (it was originally 11 1/2" x 14 1/2", but this example has been slightly trimmed to 10 3/4" x 14" [27 x 36 cm]), which is normally only seen in Belgian posters from 1944 or 1945 (when there were extreme paper shortages in Belgium), we think it more likely dates to one of those two years. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. As stated above, we don't know if this poster originally had a blank top. The poster had two horizontal folds across the lower part of the image 1/2" apart. Its borders were slightly trimmed (see above), and it had pinholes in the corners. It also had 6" of its right blank border trimmed off at the top, extending into the edge of the red background at the bottom of that area. It had paper loss in the bottom left corner that extended into the image background and into the small writing at the bottom, and tiny paper loss in the bottom right corner. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, except to put blank paper where there was missing paper. Learn More about condition grades 
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