eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #1203 DESPERATE HOURS medium French 55 Bogart Date Sold 7/29/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded French Movie Poster (measures 23" x 31") (Learn More) The Desperate Hours, the 1955 William Wyler crime hostage thriller ("Adapted from the novel and play by Joseph Hayes"; based on a real-life story of a family taken hostage in their own home by escaped convicts; the person whose life this was based on sued for invasion of privacy, but he was ruled a "public figure" by the Supreme Court, and this was the first such case, and now means that public figures have no ability to restrict invasion into their privacy!) starring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy, and Richard Eyer. An interesting piece of trivia is that the lawyer who defended the real life family in the Supreme Court case to try to preserve their right to privacy was Richard Nixon, later President of the United States! 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 this French poster measures 23" x 31" and is folded. Condition: good to very good. poster was folded too quickly after printing resulting in minor ink transfer from the top to the bottom and visa versa (mostly only visible in the blank white areas); poster has darkened somewhat along the foldlines and around the edges; tiny hole at the crossfold; minor creases and smudges along the foldlines and around the edges of the poster Learn More about condition grades
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