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Auction History Result 6f528 MASH 1sh '70 Korean War classic directed by Robert Altman, it gives a damn, rare & different! Date Sold 4/25/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) M*A*S*H, the classic 1970 Robert Altman (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Korean War army-life military black comedy ("MASH gives a DAMN"; "Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr."; "From a novel by Richard Hooker"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Donald Sutherland (as 'Hawkeye' Pierce), Elliott Gould (as 'Trapper John' McIntyre), Tom Skerritt (as 'Duke' Forrest), Sally Kellerman (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan), Robert Duvall (as Major 'Frank' Burns), Jo Ann Pflug (as 'Dish' Schneider), Rene Auberjonois (as Father Mulcahy; in his first credited movie role!), Gary Burghoff (as 'Radar' O'Reilly), Roger Bowen (as Colonel Henry Blake), Fred Williamson (as 'Spearchucker' Jones), Kim Atwood (as Ho-Jon), John Schuck (as 'Painless' Waldowski), Indus Arthur, and David Arkin (as the PA announcer) 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 this is an incredibly rare poster. It has full credits, so it is not a "teaser" poster. The "regular" poster has reviews on it, and because that is the only poster that most people (even advanced collectors) have ever seen, most would think that that was the ONLY one-sheet made for this movie when it was first released. However, this poster (which is review-free!) definitely predates the regular poster, making it the "pre-reviews" one-sheet, as opposed to the regular one, which should be called the "reviews" one-sheet. How do we know for sure that this poster predates the reviews one? Because in 1968, the MPAA added ratings to movies, and posters from movies after the ratings were added all have the well known ratings on them (but those were G, M, R, and X in 1968). In 1970, the M was changed to GP, and the R was changed from "persons under 16 not admitted" to "persons under 17 not admitted". This poster has the former rating, and the "reviews" poster has the latter rating, so we know that this poster was made in 1970 before the change, and the reviews poster was made later in 1970, after the change, when the movie was released. This poster is likely so rare because of a combination of factors. One reason was that the tagline "MASH gives a DAMN" was surely controversial at that time and likely was used as a tagline because the movie contained far more swear words than had been heard in any Hollywood movie to that time, including the "F" word! The other reason is that this movie was a surprise hit. Once rave reviews started coming in, Fox changed the marketing campaign to include the reviews. We have never auctioned this pre-reviews poster before, but we have seen where two other examples were auctioned at another auction company, and both of those were incorrectly described as being used at the world premiere of the movie, which seems ridiculous on the face of it. While this is an extremely rare poster, the example offered here will need significant restoration, so bear that in mind before placing a bid. Condition: fair. The poster had much brown paper tape on the back of the top and bottom border, and also on the back of the center of the poster above and below the middle fold, and one final piece in the lower right of the poster. All of this tape is long gone, but it bled through to the front. To restore this poster will almost certainly require painting over all of the tape stains (because they almost certainly can't be completely removed through bleaching), and to make that area not stand out from the rest of the poster will almost certainly require painting over all of the white background areas, and there will also be a need to paint over the portion of the image that is stained and the portion of the title at top right. So this poster will need to be heavily restored to look nice, so bear that expense in mind before placing a bid on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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