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Auction History Result 5h460 ALEXANDER THE GREAT pressbook '56 Richard Burton, Frederic March as Philip of Macedonia! Date Sold 2/22/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 18" x 24" [46 x 61 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has one page. (Learn More) Alexander the Great, the 1956 Robert Rossen U.S./Spanish historical sword-and-sandal adventure epic ("The Colossus of motion pictures!"; "Peopled with a cast of thousands!"; "In preparation for over one decade! So mighty it staggers the imagination!"; "Conqueror of Conquerors!"; "Spectacle of Spectacles!"; "The colossus who conquered the world now..."; "...Yet he was flesh and blood! The world has never known another like him!"; "The Battles"; "The battle of Lilyria"; "The battle of Cheronea"; "The Rape of Olynthus"; "The battle of Granicus"; "The Infamies"; "The captured women of Miletus"; "The Assassination of Philip of Macedonia"; "The burning of the palace at Perspolis"; "The Spectacles"; "The mass marriage of thousands of Persian women"; "The human juggernaut of shield, sword and spear"; "The 11,000-mile route of conquest"; "The charge of the knife-studded chariots"; "The cutting of the Gordian Knot"; "The statued Agorra at Athens"; "The shrine of Zeus-Ammon"; "The decadent palace at Pella"; "The Awesome siege machines of Macedonia"; "Aristotle called him a poet, a dreamer --- His people called him a statesman and a warrior --- His enemies called him an illegitimate barbarian --- His women called him a great lover --- And he believed himself to be a god") starring Richard Burton (in the title role as Alexander), Fredric March (as Philip of Macedonia), Claire Bloom, Barry Jones, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Danielle Darrieux (billed as "With the French Star Danielle Darrieux"), and Peter Cushing NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The pressbook was folded once in each direction and has many defects along those folds and scattered throughout (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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