eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8k094 ENTRAPPED GANGSTERS Spanish/US TC 1959 Hidaka's Tegami o Kakeru, great title treatment, rare! Date Sold 7/27/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Tegami o Kakeru (released in English-speaking countries as "The Entrapped Gangsters"), the 1959 Shigeaki Hidaka Japanese gangster crime thriller starring Ryo Ikebe, Makoto Sato, Fumie Noguchi, Yasuko Nakada, Ichiro Arishima, and Ken Mitsuda. This Japanese movie was released in the U.S., and in addition to the regular movie paper (which we have never seen), there was also a release for Spanish speaking audiences under the title "Asesino", and we have had a title card from that release, but nothing else. It seems a certainty that movie paper of any sort from this movie is extremely rare. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Important Added Info: Note that this title card has really interesting artwork on several levels! For one, the image at top left is placed at the top of artwork of a movie theater, as though it were showing on a screen, but far more interesting is the title, which is in 3-dimensional block letters, and characters from the movie are not only around the letters, but actually on and in the letters, with one even pushing another off the top of the giant "A"! We wish other movies had had ad campaigns that were half as creative as this! Also note that this lobby card was printed in the United States for use at theaters with Spanish speaking audiences (this was done most by MGM, starting in the 1930s, but it was done by the other major studios as well, and often the posters would have the exact same image as the English language poster, except the writing would be in Spanish, and on posters from the 1930s and 1940s there would be an added "Toda en Espanol!", meaning "Entirely in Spanish!", printed within the image). Sometimes posters from the 1960s or later will have the word "SPANISH" printed in the bottom border (or sometimes stamped on the back of the poster). Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades
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