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Auction History Result 1a468 SEALED VERDICT linen 1sh '48 Ray Milland, sexy Florence Marly ought to hang! Date Sold 4/29/2012 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) Sealed Verdict, the 1948 Lewis Allen World War II (WWII) France underground resistance war criminal trial melodrama ("What is the truth about fraternization?"; "Everybody saw you with the French girl! She ought to hang!"; "The most powerful and provocative picture since the war!"; set in 1946, right after World War II ended; Ray Milland is an American major trying Nazi war criminals; his people try and convict a German general for ordering the massacre of a French village, and the chief witnesses are the members of the French ungrderground; but then a pretty woman comes to him and tells him the general was innocent, and the major re-opens the investigation, but keeps finding conflicting evidence, and there is pressure on him to carry out the execution, and when he can't find anything concrete, he allows the execution to go forward, and the movie ends with the general hung) starring Ray Milland, Florence Marly, Broderick Crawford, John Hoyt, John Ridgely, and Ludwig Donath. Note that this had the potential to be a great movie, with an ambiguous plot that never reveals whether or not the general was guilty, so the audience might have ambivalent feelings about his execution, but at the end of the movie, the general shows himself to be a virulent Nazi, which certainly cuts off any ambiguity! Also note that Paramount apparently worried about what kind of reception this very downbeat movie would receive at the box office, and all of the U.S. movie paper focuses on pretty Florence Marly, and makes it look like the movie might be a romantic comedy! 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: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and fine surface paper loss scattered in part of the left half of the horizontal fold, with a lesser amount of wear on the other foldlines. There were some pinholes and small tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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