807TF ROAD TO DENVER three-sheet movie poster '55 great Order Now For: $28.99
An Original Vintage Theater-Used Tri-Folded Kraftbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81")
Note: Scroll down for the condition, description, and item defects. Film Description The Road to Denver, the 1955 Joseph Kane Colorado family relationship cowboy western ("Brother against brother... Bullet for bullet... And the honey-haired blonde was the prize!"; "Based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Bill Gulick") starring John Payne ("as Sam Mayhew"), Mona Freeman ("as Liz Sutton"), Lee J. Cobb ("co-star of 'On The Waterfront' as Jim Donovan"), Ray Middleton, and Skip Homeier
More About This Item This poster has been kraftbacked, which means it was backed onto a brown paper soon after it was printed (this process is called "kraft-backing", and posters with it are called "kraft-backed"). One could have it professionally removed from the kraft paper and linenbacked, and it would look great! This three-sheet poster was tri-folded only (which means there is one less vertical machine fold than usual). This means the poster has a significantly lesser number of folds than with six-sheets folded in the "regular" way, which is nice! Tri-folded three-sheets need to be sent in an oversized flat package, which measures roughly 16" x 38", so they cost more to send than regularly folded three-sheets, especially if they are sent to non-U.S. addresses. This three-sheet was printed in 1 section.
Overall Condition: good to very good Notable Defects: In addition to being kraftbacked (and the kraft paper was folded over the front borders and glued to them), there is a foreign distributor snipe to the right of the title.
Explanation Of What This Condition Grade Means: This item has some clear imperfections. If they are within the image, they are likely noticeable, but not very distracting, or they may be in the blank borders, where they will not show when the item is displayed. We may have written a few words about those imperfections, but we may not have, as you can likely see them by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual item (if they are the type that CAN'T be seen in our super-sized image, like faint water staining or tape on the back, we ALWAYS describe that in words). Note that we grade FAR more harshly than any other movie paper seller we know of, and many sellers would grade many of our "good to very good" items as "very good"!
More About This Poster Type: Three-sheets are posters that measure approximately 41" x 81". When the studios began making posters, they could only print sizes up to 27" x 41". So, in order to make the 41" x 81" poster they printed three sections of the smaller size that could be combined to form the larger poster (this is why they are called "three-sheets"). Beginning in the early 1930s through the 1980s, new technology allowed for three-sheets to be printed with 2 sheets (usually one larger section and one smaller section). Sometime in the 1970s some three-sheets were printed with a single three-sheet-sized piece. The number of sheets this poster is composed of is noted above. The separate pieces were designed to overlap, so that when they were glued together (or nowadays linenbacked together) they match up so that they appear to be a single printed image. The image we show of non-linenbacked three-sheets has the individual sections overlapping each other to give you the best sense of the overall poster. 
