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Auction History Result 5b122 BIG SHOT linen Belgian 1948 different c/u art of Humphrey Bogart & sexy Irene Manning, rare! Date Sold 3/7/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1948 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11" x 18" [28 x 46 cm]) (Learn More) The Big Shot, the 1942 Lewis Seiler crime film noir ("'The Big Shot' Returns! Up from the gutter to make Gangland shudder!"; "Humphrey Bogart as the last of the Racket Barons.... The Big Shot of 'em all! The saga of the rise and fall of a gang lord and his lady!"; about a criminal who is a "two time loser", and his crooked lawyer wants him to take part in a robbery, but he knows getting caught would mean life in prison, so he refuses, but he ends up framed for the crime anyway) starring Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, and Joe Downing. Note that this was the last film in which Bogart played a gangster (a part he had played many times!). The following movie he made was "Casablanca", which of course made him a giant star and drastically changed the roles he was able to take (and he showed his great diversity as an actor)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jos De Cock Important Added Info: Note that during World War II and the first couple years after, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and the posters were printed in a tiny size, and sometimes on the back of maps or other posters. By this time, 1949, they started to make the posters bigger, and this one measures 11" x 18", but that is still smaller than they would be just a couple of years later, when there were no more paper shortages. Also note that we have never auctioned this poster before! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had five evenly spaced horizontal folds with a second horizontal fold near the middle of the poster. It also had some writing on the back of the bottom center that slightly bled through to the front in the left of the title area. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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