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Auction History Result 1u162 LIFEBOAT linen Argentinean '44 Alfred Hitchcock, artwork of Tallulah Bankhead & entire cast! Date Sold 8/26/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Argentinean Movie Poster (measures approximately 29" x 43") (Learn More) Lifeboat, the classic 1943 Alfred Hitchcock (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) World War II (WWII) shipwreck survivor suspense melodrama ("Out of man's rawest emotions - comes the most amazing drama life ever staged!"; based on the story by John Steinbeck; set entirely on a lifeboat adrift on the Atlantic ocean, which has eight survivors from a ship torpedoed by a Nazi U-boat, and it also has a German sailor from the U-boat, but the other eight survivors don't know that!) starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn, and Canada Lee. Note that Alfred Hitchcock was famous for having cameo roles in his movies, but because this movie had no other characters other than the lifeboat survivors, he could not appear in the usual way (but he included a scene where a floating newspaper is shown that has his picture on it)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and creases and tiny dots of paper loss in the right half of the top foldline, and a lesser amount of wear on the other folds. There were some minor border defects. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed. At some point after it was backed, it was roughly handled, and the poster received creases in the top, middle, and bottom left of both the linen and the poster, extending 1 1/2" into the poster in all three areas. I would think that flattening the poster under weight would diminish how noticeable these creases are, and perhaps a restorer has a technique to lessen the creases without re-backing the poster, but it may be that the only way to remove the creases is by re-backing the poster (but I would think many collectors could happily display this poster just as it is, because the creases are truthfully not very noticeable or distracting at all). Please do not bid on this poster unless you have read the above carefully and have carefully looked at our super-sized image. Learn More about condition grades 
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