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Auction History Result 5d141 GUN CRAZY 1/2sh '50 Joseph H. Lewis noir classic, flaming life of bad Peggy Cummins, rare! Date Sold 3/12/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Gun Crazy, the 1950 Joseph H. Lewis bad girl crime film noir ("Thrill crazy... Kill crazy..."; "The Flaming Life of Laurie Starr [the lethal blonde]"; "...her violent loves! ...her vicious crimes! ...her wild escapes!"; "Notorious Laurie Starr! ...wanted in a dozen states... hunted by the F.B.I.!"; "She was more than any man could handle!"; "From The Saturday Evening Post Story by MacKinlay Kantor") starring Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Russ Tamblyn, and Don Beddoe. Note that in 1949 Joseph H. Lewis had released this movie as "Deadly Is the Female". In 1950 he re-titled this movie "Gun Crazy" and gave it a full-scale release under that name. There are posters of all sizes and lobby cards for both titles (which is why we list them as two separate titles), and the "Gun Crazy" paper has never been called a "re-release" within the hobby, although technically it is. 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 first release posters from this re-titled version of the movie "Deadly is the Female" have always been highly prized by collectors, thanks to the great images and taglines (and the fact that it is a wonderful film noir movie!). The one-sheets, three-sheets, and lobby cards from this movie come up at auction with some regularity, but this half-sheet is almost never offered for sale (we have only auctioned it once, and that was eleven years ago, when it sold for $1,588, and that example was paperbacked, while this example has not been restored. Note that this poster has never been folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It has paper tape on the back of the left and right borders. It has pinholes in the corners. It has a 1" tear near the center of the top and bottom borders. It has some light scuff marks and creases scattered throughout. The most noticeable one is in the top left, which starts in the background and touches the top of Cummins' face, and goes through Dall's jacket, with tiny surface paper loss at the end of the scuff and the background to the right of that. There is a small tear in the background to the right of the title, and tiny paper loss in the left of the bottom blank border. The poster can certainly be displayed and enjoyed exactly as it is, or one could choose to have restoration performed. Either way, the new owner will have a wonderful and rare poster to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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