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Auction History Result 6z407 SON OF THE SHEIK linen 1sh R38 Rudolph Valentino, the world's greatest screen lover! Date Sold 4/1/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1938 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Son of the Sheik, the 1926 George Fitzmaurice Arabian silent desert romantic adventure melodrama sequel ("Hail now! 'The Son of the Sheik'"; "A sequel to 'The Sheik'"; "From the novel by E.M. Hull - Adapted to the screen by Frances Marion"; the son has his way with a dancing girl, and her father captures him and tortures him as payback) starring Rudolph Valentino (in a dual title role as both Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan and Ahmed, the Sheik's son; in his final movie role!), Vilma Banky (as Yasmin), George Fawcett, Montagu Love, and Karl Dane. Note that this movie was a sequel to Valentino's wildly successful 1920 "The Sheik". Unfortunately, he passed away when filming was completed, and it was not released until after his death. 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 the poster is undated (and for many years it was only identified as a 1930s re-release by all auctions and dealers), but it has a litho number, and comparing this number to our massive database of litho numbers taken from actual movie posters, we can determine that this poster is almost certainly from 1938! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had paper loss at the bottom crossfold and tears and paper loss in the bottom quarter of the vertical foldline. It also had paper loss at the other two crossfolds and some tiny tears and tiny paper loss on parts of the other folds. It had the name of the movie written on the back of the bottom quarter of the vertical foldline and on the back of the left half of the bottom foldline, and both of those bled through to the front. It also had stains, tears, and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The person who backed the poster performed partial restoration to the above defects and the defects in the bottom of the poster are still quite noticeable, so please read our description above and look at our super-sized image before placing a bid on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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