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Auction History Result 4w421 RIFF-RAFF linen 1sh '47 art of Pat O'Brien with gun & bad girl Anne Jeffreys, film noir! Date Sold 9/13/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Riff-Raff (also known as "Riffraff"), the 1947 Ted Tetzlaff Panama bad girl crime film noir ("Baby, this is a matter of love and death!"; "Only a sucker would turn his back... on a dame like this!"; "A guy geared for action... a dame designed for danger!") starring Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak, Anne Jeffreys, Percy Kilbride, Jerome Cowan, George Givot, and Sammy Stein. Note that Sammy Stein was a professional football player in the NFL, playing there between 1929 and 1932. He then became a professional wrestler, and he then became a movie actor, appearing in 58 movies, almost always playing a bad guy, often a crook or an outlaw cowboy (likely one of the very few Jewish cowboys ever!). 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 poster has been censored! It likely occurred in Canada, because the vast majority of posters with censor paint like this have originated in Canada, where they were CRAZY about censoring out images that were deemed either "too sexy" or "too violent", and that generally included almost any gun that was shown. What is very odd about this poster is that they didn't censor out the gun in O'Brien's hand at top right, but they did censor out the entire bottom left lower image, which shows Jeffreys choking Slezak with a rope around his neck. Depending on how you look at it, this is either a HUGE defect or kind of a neat curiosity that shows just how different times were back in 1947, where they couldn't bear people seeing an image like this! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster has been censored . It also had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny tears and separation on parts of some foldlines. There were some pinholes and tears in the borders. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking, because of the censoring. The poster was pretty well backed, but the restorer did not address the censoring, so please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept this major defect described above (we know from past experience that it is almost impossible to remove this sort of censor paint, which bonds in with the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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