eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 2w038 SOS COAST GUARD linen 1sh '42 art of mad scientist Bela Lugosi & Ralph Byrd with machine gun! Date Sold 11/2/2014Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) S.O.S. Coast Guard, the 1942 Alan James & William Witney mad scientist science fiction (sci-fi) adventure thriller ("You'll thrill, gasp, cheer at these sights!.. Disastrous ship wrecks! A Mastodon of crime! The atom-destroyer at work! Undersea battles! And a thousand other high spots!"; a wacky story of Coast Guard men who discover a mad scientist who has discovered a mineral that gives off radioactive gas and destroys everything it touches, except for glass, and they are told he is dead, but they discover he is alive, and by the end of the movie, they have him trapped, and he and his giant servant are drowned) starring Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi (as Boroff, the mad scientist), Maxine Doyle, Richard Alexander (as Thorg, the giant servant), Lee Ford, and Roy Barcroft. Note that this was originally a 1937 12 chapter serial, and it was not released in a feature version in 1937, but five years later, Republic Pictures did release this edited feature version, with the same title, and since America was now in World War II, a prologue was added congratulating America's Coast Guard! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had some tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some foldlines. It had two tears in the top center of the image (in the background between the two stars' heads) and some tears and small paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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