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Auction History Result 2h118 GAY FALCON linen 1sh 1941 c/u art of smoking George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, 1st of the series! Date Sold 12/9/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Gay Falcon, the 1941 Irving Reis detective mystery crime thriller ("From the story by Michael Arlen"; this is the first of the sixteen movies in The Falcon series) starring George Sanders (in the title role as The Falcon), Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Nina Vale (billed as "Anne Hunter"), Gladys Cooper, Edward Brophy, Turhan Bey, Arthur Shields, and Eddie Dunn. Note that George Sanders had starred in a highly successful series of movies based on Leslie Charteris' character, The Saint. However, Charteris often disagreed with any story changes made by RKO and with Sanders' interpretation of his character. Because of this (and to save on royalty fees), the 1941 film "The Saint in Palm Springs" was the last of the series produced by RKO. Instead, they made this film, which was obviously the exact same character, but with the name changed (and there were fifteen more in the series). Mr. Charteris threatened to sue RKO over this but the matter was settled out-of-court. Note that this is one of four movies that starred George Sanders as The Falcon. After the fourth movie, the role of The Falcon was passed from George Sanders (who had previously played "The Saint" in a series of movies, and who apparently had tired of this role, and wanted to leave) to Tom Conway (they played brothers in the movie and in real life they were brothers!; in a clever move, the script for that movie, "The Falcon's Brother" had George Sanders' character killed, and his brother, played by Tom Conway, shows up and solves his murder, and becomes the "new" Falcon; and Conway went on to make a total of twelve Falcon movies). 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 we are auctioning one-sheets from five different movies in this Falcon detective series (in five separate auctions), and this is the first in the series! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered down the vertical fold, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds and in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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