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Auction History Result

9h091 CAPTIVE CITY linen Italian 1p '52 cool art of John Forsythe looming over city, film noir!

Date Sold 7/17/2014
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian One-Panel (known in Italy as a "2 Fogli") Movie Poster (1p; measures 39" x 55" [99 x 140 cm]) (Learn More)

The Captive City, the 1952 Robert Wise crime film noir ("Pulls no punches about who pulls the strings"; "Pulls no punches about who pulls the strings in gangland's reign of terror!"; "No punches pulled... No truths untold!"; "Violence! Vice! Corruption!"; "it could happen to you!"; "From the director that gave you 'The Day The Earth Stood Still'"; "Sen. Kefauver says: 'I urge YOU to see it!'"; "Sen. Kefauver says: '...when a film courageously, honestly and accurately shows for the first time the real cause of organized crime, racketeering and gangsterism in this country, this becomes a picture I urge you to see!'"; "Astride 1000 American Cities... The hulking terror of gangland's reign of Violence, Vice and Corruption!"; "Based on an original story by Alvin Josephy, Jr."; "Screenplay by Karl Kamb and Alvin Josephy, Jr.") starring John Forsythe, Joan Camden, Harold J. Kennedy, Ray Teal, Marjorie Crossland, and Victor Sutherland
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss in the top corners (in the blank border), and paper loss in the center of the top of the poster, extending down into the green background. It had two pieces of tape to the left and right of that paper loss. It had pinholes around the edges and many brown dot stains scattered in the bottom 6" of the poster. It also had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on many parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above.
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