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Auction History Result 1b766 SAINT IN NEW YORK 1sh 1938 cool art of Louis Hayward as Simon Templar & sexiest Kay Sutton! Date Sold 10/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Saint in New York, the 1938 Ben Holmes detective crime mystery thriller ("The man whose daring deeds made daily headlines in his one-man war on crime!"; "Daring hero of a dozen novels at war with Gangland's overlords"; "From the Novel by Leslie Charteris"; "Screen play by Charles Kaufman and Mortimer Offner") starring Louis Hayward (in the title role as Simone Templar aka The Saint), Kay Sutton, Sig Ruman, Jonathan Hale, and Jack Carson. Note that this was the first of the "Saint" movies made by RKO, based on Leslie Charteris' classic character, The Saint (the only one with Louis Hayward, because afterwards, George Sanders took over). 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 "The Gay Falcon", which obviously starred the exact same character, but with the name changed (and there were many more in that series). Mr. Charteris threatened to sue RKO over this but the matter was settled out-of-court, and in 1953, RKO handled U.S. distribution for the English film "The Saint's Return" (also known as "The Saint's Girl Friday"), which starred Louis Hayward, who had played The Saint in the first RKO movie! George Sanders starred in four movies as The Falcon. After the fourth movie, the role of The Falcon was passed from George Sanders (who apparently had tired of this role, and wanted to leave) to Tom Conway (they played brothers in a movie called "The Falcon's Brother", and in real life they were brothers!; it 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. Condition: good to very good. The poster has a few small tears of varying lengths along portions of the upper and lower vertical foldline, with slightly larger tears in the ends of the vertical foldline (with some paper loss in the tear in the lower vertical foldline edge). There is separation in each corner with some amount of small paper loss. There are pinholes in each corner and it has a few light creases scattered in various areas. Overall, it is in pretty nice condition and after a relatively simple linenbacking with some paint restoration the poster will display fantastically. Learn More about condition grades 
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