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Auction History Result

8g877 SERGEANT RUTLEDGE 3sh '60 John Ford surpasses the greatness than won him 4 Academy Awards!

Date Sold 6/25/2015
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More)

John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge, the 1960 John Ford military race relations court-martial courtroom legal lawyer trial crime melodrama ("Forget all the suspense you have ever seen! Forget all the excitement you have ever known!"; "'I knew it had to be great - but who could have expected it to be this great!' John Wayne"; "'Terrific! The kind of excitement motion pictures were invented for!' Spencer Tracy"; "'If ever there was a picture to thrill an audience, this is it!' Ward Bond"; "You knew all along that love had to do with it..."; "You knew all along that love had nothing to do with it...";"Go away -- your kind of woman means trouble..."; "I want the truth about that night"; "No seating last ten minutes... And please don't tell the surprising reason!"; "John Ford surpasses the greatness that won him 4 Academy Awards!"; "John Ford tops all the greatness that won him 4 Academy Awards! [the only director in history to win this many!] The Searchers, The Informer, Long Voyage Home, How Green Was My Valley, Stage Coach, Quiet Man, What Price Glory, Grapes of Wrath"; "You knew all along that love had nothing to do with it..."; "Written by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck"; "Stop! In the time it takes you to read this, another of the astonishing scenes will have piled up in the avalanching suspense of John Ford's sensational Sergeant Rutledge"; about a black African American U.S. Cavalry officer who is accused of raping and killing a white woman, and murdering her father, who was his superior officer, after which he deserts; he is caught and put on trial, and the movie has a "surprise ending", and no one was allowed to enter the theater during the last ten minutes, and viewers were urged to not reveal the surprise to anyone who had not yet seen the movie!) starring Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Woody Strode (in the title role as 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge), Juano Hernandez, and Willis Bouchey. Note that Warner Bros. was afraid how the public would react to this movie with its black central character and controversial subject matter, and director John Ford got his old buddies John Wayne, Spencer Tracy, and Ward Bond to give effusive praising quotes that they put all over the movie advertising!
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Important Added Info: Note that this three-sheet was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap.

Condition: good to very good. There is some darkening on the back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded. There are some creases and several tears along the foldlines that were on the outside when the poster was fully folded. There are some creases, smudges, and tiny tears on some foldlines, and some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds.
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