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ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS Polish medium OR search current auctions Auction History Result 6a088 ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS linen Polish 23x34 1958 Louis Malle, different Jan Lenica art, rare! Date Sold 4/29/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1958 (from the first release of this movie in Poland) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Polish Movie Poster (23x33; measures 22 1/2" x 33 1/2" [57 x 85 cm]) (Learn More) Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (released in the U.S. in 1961 as "Frantic" and also as "Elevator to the Gallows", its more well-known English title), the 1958 Louis Malle French crime thriller ("More Hitchcock than Hitchcock! More thrills and suspense and daring!"; with "original score composed and played by Miles Davis"; about a man who is having an affair with his boss' wife, and together they devise a plan to have the man kill the boss, but make it look like suicide; their plan seems perfect, but the killer makes an error, and when he tries to go back to correct it, he gets trapped inside the elevator!) starring Jeanne Moreau (billed as "Star of 'The Lovers'"), Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly (billed as "The French James Dean"), Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Juan Petrovich, Felix Marten, and Lino Ventura. Note that this was legendary French director Louis Malle's first feature movie (and he co-wrote the screenplay), and he clearly was strongly influenced by the plot of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity", but even more influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's style, and the movie is excellent. But Malle soon went in different directions in his movies, and one wonders what his career might have been like had he continued making movies like this one! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jan Lenica Important Added Info: Note that we have never auctioned this poster before! It has cool art by Jan Lenica that's not on any other poster for this title we have auctioned, and the artist incorporated the "elevator" concept into the art in a strikingly! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster was never folded. It had paper loss in three corners, where pins were roughly removed, and pinholes in the fourth corner. It has a huge amount of scuffs and smudges throughout the solid black areas. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The smudges and scuffs are extremely noticeable, and while another restorer could surely perform additional restoration, please bear this significant defect in mind before bidding on this poster. Of course, one would rather find another example in better condition, but we have never auctioned this poster before, and it may be many years before that other example turns up! Learn More about condition grades 
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