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Auction History Result 6b803 TAXI DRIVER 1sh '76 Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, like int'l, but with ratings! Date Sold 4/5/2016 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) Taxi Driver, the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese New York City descent-into-schizophrenia mental illness crime murder melodrama ("On every street in every city in this country there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."; "He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive."; "Written by Paul Schrader"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Robert De Niro (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Travis Bickle), Jodie Foster (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Albert Brooks ("as Tom"; in his first movie role!), Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle ("as 'Wizard'"), Cybill Shepherd ("as 'Betsy'"), Martin Scorsese, Joe Spinell, and Richard Higgs 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 we have four times before auctioned different examples of this very special one-sheet! What is special about it? It looks like the regular international one-sheet, which has a two-color image of De Niro walking in Times Square, but all the other examples of this poster do NOT have a rating, but this one (and the four we auctioned previously, in 2006, 2014, and 2015) do have ratings! In 2006, when we received the first example of this poster from a collector, we had no idea what this meant, but in 2014, when we received another example, which came to us from a man who worked at Hollywood studios for decades, we strongly suspected that it was a poster that was printed but never actually distributed to theaters. Perhaps it was going to be an alternate U.S. style, and they decided against it, or perhaps this was the first U.S. poster, and then they created the full-color one after it, and this one was "replaced" by that. There is a very similar situation to this with the Star Wars "style C" poster (almost all known examples have no ratings, but a few printer's test posters do have ratings). Since that time, we have received two more examples of this poster in 2015, and both of those appear to be "hand folded", and those two auctioned for $873 and $1,024. Now, we have received a fifth example of this poster that also appears to be hand folded, but this one is in much lesser condition than the previous four, so of course, it will sell for quite a bit less. Condition: fair to good. The poster appears to have been hand folded rather than machine folded. It was folded like a regular one-sheet, but the top and bottom horizontal folds are closer to the center than they would have been had they been machine folded. The poster was also folded in half an extra time, with many creases and scuffs along parts of the folds. There are pinholes, creases, small tears, and some light stains around the edges. There are some light blue marks in the lower right of the poster that appear to be blue pencil. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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