eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8s219 DEFIANT ONES Spanish herald '59 art of Tony Curtis & Sidney Poitier chained together! Date Sold 7/24/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1959 (from the first release of this movie in Spain) Vintage Theatrical Spanish Movie Herald (measures 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" [10 x 14 cm]) (Learn More) The Defiant Ones, the 1958 Stanley Kramer (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) prison escape race relations crime thriller ("One of the great ones!"; "In the stinking swamp they were animals ...in the woman's lonely cabin they were men ...in a powerful motion picture they are."; "He watched them -- and listened for the dogs!"'; "'Call me that name again, white man, and I'll kill you!'"; "A SHOCKER! Two chained fugitives - desperately trying to escape from the law - and each other!"; "Written by Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Tony Curtis (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Sidney Poitier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Theodore Bikel (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., King Donovan, Kevin Coughlin, and Cara Williams (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). Note that Tony Curtis, in his autobiography, said that the producers of the movie said that he was "too good looking" to portray the "lowlife bigot" in the movie. So Curtis had the studio department create a false nose for him that would "make him look uglier"! Also, note that there is conflicting information about Robert Mitchum being first offered this role and turning it down. Some have said that it was due to prejudice on his part, but it seems far more likely that it was because he was acquainted with the prison system in the south at this time, and he knew that they would never chain a white man and a black man together, so he felt the movie's key plot twist was ludicrous, which is a shame, because he would have surely been wonderful in this part! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Vbher (spelling?) Important Added Info: Note that when Spanish heralds have printing on the back, we picture both sides, but when they are blank on the back, we only picture the front. Please note that Spanish heralds, like U.S. heralds, were printed in very large quantities, and then sent to individual theaters in Spain, and they would sometimes have the backs of them overprinted with their theater name and specific play dates. But because a movie might play in Spain for a period of a year or two (traveling from theater to theater), there is no guarantee that the date overprinted on the back of the herald is the same as the date that the herald was first printed (and the date that the movie first played in Spain). Therefore, we don't list the date overprinted on the back of a herald as the date of the herald unless we know that was when the movie first played in Spain. If we believe the herald was printed earlier, then we use that date. If it is important to you that the date on the herald is the date the movie first opened, then please look at our image of the back of this herald to see if there is a different date printed on it. Condition: good. The herald is in pretty nice condition, but the printing from the back bleeds through in the light colored places in the front, which includes the stars' faces (see our images). This would be true of all examples of this herald that have printing on the back, but please take it into consideration before placing your bid. Learn More about condition grades
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