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Auction History Result 2s558 TAKE MY LIFE linen 1sh R44 Harlem Dead End Kids, Murder Rap, red-hot real life drama! Date Sold 6/12/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1944 Re-Release (re-titled "Murder Rap" for this re-release) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 42") (Learn More) Take My Life, the 1941 Harry M. Popkin black African American World War II (WWII) military juvenile delinquent crime murder melodrama ("Harlem Goes to War!"; "Thrill to the Brown Bombers in action"; about a group of tough Harlem street kids who are befriended by a gangster, but when the gangster kills someone, one of the kids is blamed, and the gangster goes on the run, and the kid is sentenced to be executed, but at the end, the gangster is in a car crash, and in the hospital, one of the kids tricks him into thinking he is about to be electrocuted, and he makes a deathbed confession) starring The Harlem Dead End Kids (including Freddie Baker, Jack Carter and DeForst Covan), Monte Hawley, Jeni Le Gon and "An All Star Colored Cast". Note that the screenwriter of this movie clearly heavily borrowed from the James Cagney classic, "Angels with Dirty Faces", but they added a strong patriotic element, having the kids learn all about patriotism from an Army recruiter, and at the end of the movie when they are cleared, they all join the Army and appear in uniform! This was the first movie to show African Americans serving in World War II in a positive light. 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 in 1944, Toddy Pictures purchased the rights to this 1941 all-black cast movie, and re-titled it and re-released it. Sometimes these re-release posters have been mistakenly sold as original releases. Also note that the poster has been trimmed and it now measures 27" x 42". What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Like most Toddy one-sheets of this time, this poster originally measured 28" x 42". The left and right borders were trimmed so that the poster measured 27" (no doubt so that the poster could fit in a frame). There was paper loss at the top crossfold and some faint darkening and scuffs on parts of several foldlines. 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, and the restorer did not address the trimming of the borders (only blank white paper was affected). Learn More about condition grades 
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