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4w390 NIGHTMARE ALLEY linen 1sh '47 Tyrone Power is a carnival barker whose life goes very wrong!

Date Sold 9/13/2011
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

Nightmare Alley, the classic 1947 Edmund Goulding carnival sideshow romantic love triangle crime film noir melodrama ("20th Century Fox triumph!"; "Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham"; about a carnival barker at a circus who makes significant mistakes in his life, and is ultimately reduced to being the "sideshow geek" in a truly nightmarish movie) starring Tyrone Power Jr., Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith, Gene Roth, Taylor Holmes, and Julia Dean. Note that this movie was remade in 2021 by Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett.
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss at the middle crossfold and small paper loss at the top crossfold, with some creases, tiny tears, and separation on parts of some foldlines. There were pinholes, tears, and smudges around the edges and some smudges in the white background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. Someone simply backed the poster on thin linen with very little restoration, and no excess linen. While anyone could certainly frame the poster as is and enjoy it, I would think many collectors would chose to have it removed from the thin backing and properly re-backed.
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