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Auction History Result 5p0262 RACKET BUSTERS linen 1sh 1938 crook Humphrey Bogart blackmails George Brent into joining him! Date Sold 9/1/2020 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) Racket Busters, the 1938 Lloyd Bacon gangster crime thriller ("Warner Bros.' Timely Bombshell!"; "Original screen play by Robert Rossen and Leonard Bercovici"; Bogart is a gangster who muscles into the trucking business and when he catches a desperate employee stealing to support his pregnant wife, he blackmails the poor guy into joining his crooked enterprise!) starring Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Gloria Dickson, Allen Jenkins, and Walter Abel. Note that the film's story was inspired by real-life headlines about New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey (future Republican presidential nominee) and his fight against organized crime. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the bottom two horizontal folds, and a lesser amount of wear on the other foldlines. It had some areas of paper loss around the edges, but solely in the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but at some point after it was backed, it was roughly handled, and there is now a 6" crease in the bottom center of the image that has caused creasing and tiny surface paper loss in that area, and a similar 6" crease in the yellow area below the bottom left of the title, and there also is another similar 1/2" crease and tiny surface paper loss in the top center of the image (in the top left of Bogart's jacket). These creases that were caused by rough handling are not very distracting, but certainly, any restorer could easily touch them up without re-backing the poster, if the new owner chose to do so. Learn More about condition grades 
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