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Auction History Result 1t071 DESPERATE HOURS linen 1sh '55 Humphrey Bogart attacks Fredric March from behind, William Wyler Date Sold 9/16/2014 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) The Desperate Hours, the 1955 William Wyler crime hostage thriller ("Adapted from the novel and play by Joseph Hayes"; based on a real-life story of a family taken hostage in their own home by escaped convicts; the person whose life this was based on sued for invasion of privacy, but he was ruled a "public figure" by the Supreme Court, and this was the first such case, and now means that public figures have no ability to restrict invasion into their privacy!) starring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy, and Richard Eyer. An interesting piece of trivia is that the lawyer who defended the real life family in the Supreme Court case to try to preserve their right to privacy was Richard Nixon, later President of the United States! 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: poor. The poster had many stains, tears, and areas of paper loss scattered throughout, and pinholes, tears, and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. Someone tried to "restore" the poster, but they were not up to the job, although they had the inspired idea to add blood stains to Bogart's face, and to make the poster more colorful than it originally was. Learn More about condition grades 
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