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Auction History Result 7x0294 DARK OF THE SUN 30x40 special acetate poster 1968 Taylor charging w/ chainsaw by McCarthy! Date Sold 3/7/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Special Acetate Movie Poster (measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The Mercenaries (released in the U.S. as "Dark of the Sun"), the 1968 Jack Cardiff English Africa Congo military war action adventure thriller ("A strike force of crack mercenaries fight the hottest battles in all the blazing fury of today's strife-torn Congo!"; "You don't kill for women, You don't kill for diamonds, You kill because you're paid for it!"; "Brutes! Savages! Heroes! They're mercenaries... they're paid to do a job!"; "After the 'Dirty Dozen' make way for 'The Mercenaries'";"Based on the Novel by Wilbur A. Smith") starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, Kenneth More, and Andre Morell NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Frank McCarthy Important Added Info: Note that in 2017 a man who was in the movie business in the 1960s and 1970s sent us a handful of very unusual movie posters! We had previously auctioned two similar posters, also from the late 1960s and early 1970s. What exactly are they? Each is a movie poster that measures 30" x 40", but it is not printed on paper! Rather, each is printed on a plastic material that is likely acetate. It has full-color printing on both sides. We would have to think that this was intended to be displayed in light boxes, but it likely was only used in major theaters showing major productions. We think it is likely that making these posters stopped because theaters didn't want to pay to have expensive light boxes installed (and it would be many years before double-sided posters used in light boxes became commonplace). Among those acetate posters was one for 2001: A Space Odyssey, which had different coloring than any other 2001 poster, and when we auctioned it in 2017 it sold for $3,961! Now the man has discovered that he has a total of nine more of these posters, including a second example of 2001. We are auctioning eight of the posters in this set of auctions, and the 2001 will be auctioned in our April Major auction. Given that, other than these posters from this one consignor, we were only consigned two of these posters in all of our years of auctioning, it is clear that they are incredibly rare! Also, note that these posters have been stored rolled in tubes for decades, and we don't know how easily it would be (or if it is even possible) to completely flatten them out to where they would lay flat on their own. As you can see in our image, we used magnets on all four borders to get our image. Perhaps a restorer would have a technique to flatten them completely. Please bear this in mind before bidding on any of these eight posters (and know that it will be shipped by itself in a tube; it can be combined with the other acetate posters, but it cannot be combined with regular posters). Condition: good. The poster has a 12" tear at upper right and smaller one under it that slightly enters the image. It has creases, tears and areas of acetate loss along portions of the the upper left and lower right borders. The image area itself has a few smudges and faint scuffs. As noted above these do not lay completely flat and we don't know how well this poster will respond to restoration techniques used on paper posters. Learn More about condition grades 
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