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Auction History Result 7e828 HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN Aust daybill '44 Richardson Studio art of Nazi spy Veronica Lake! Date Sold 4/13/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 10" x 30 1/4" [25 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) The Hour Before the Dawn, the 1944 Frank Tuttle World War II (WWII) female Nazi spy espionage crime film noir ("From the Great Best Seller by the Author of 'The Letter' and 'Of Human Bondage'!"; "W. Somerset Maugham's most savage portrait of a dangerous woman!"; "From the novel by W. Somerset Maugham"; about an Englishman who refuses to fight in World War II because he is a conscientious objector; he marries a young woman who is really a Nazi spy!; she accompanies him and transmits many secrets to the Nazis, and when she is revealed, her husband manages to overcome his objection to killing, killing her and joining the R.A.F.!) starring Veronica Lake, Franchot Tone, John Sutton, Binnie Barnes, Henry Stephenson, Philip Merivale, Nils Asther, and David Leland NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Richardson Studio Important Added Info: Note that for a brief time during World War II (WWII) Australia printed their daybills in a 10" x 30" format (no doubt to conserve on paper, because they had been printing daybills in a 15" x 40" size, and by going to 10" x 30", they were able to print four daybills with the same amount of paper they used to print two!). Condition: good. There are tiny circular areas of paper loss scattered throughout the poster, including some in Lake's image at top. There are a few creases scattered throughout the poster from it being oddly folded at one time and there are some tiny tears around the edges. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition and if one chose to have it restored it would look fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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