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Auction History Result 4x0787 THIS GUN FOR HIRE linen 1sh 1942 most iconic art of Alan Ladd with gun & sexy Veronica Lake! Date Sold 8/6/2023 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) This Gun For Hire, the classic 1942 Frank Tuttle spy espionage counterfeiting murder crime film noir ("Killer without a conscience! Lover without a heart?"; "Based on the novel by Graham Greene") starring Veronica Lake (as a magician who does card tricks!), Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Mikhail Rasumny, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Emmett Vogan, and Victor Kilian. Note that Alan Ladd was fourth billed in this movie (he had been in movies for several years, including in Citizen Kane, but he had mostly tiny roles), but this movie made him a major star. It is incredibly fortunate that the U.S. poster artist chose to feature only fourth-billed Ladd and first-billed Lake on the one-sheet, making it one of the most desirable U.S. posters! 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 there are just a handful of the very most "iconic" movie poster images ever (the ones someone would pick when asked to pick the very best movie posters ever created). There is no one I know of who does not include this poster on their short list! Not only is it from one of the most classic film noir movies ever, but it has wonderful art. You would expect that for Veronica Lake (who was a major star), but the unknown poster artist chose to picture fourth-billed Alan Ladd (and to NOT picture second-billed Robert Preston or third-billed Laird Cregar!), and the result is a "perfect" movie poster! In recent years, this poster has steadily continued to rise in price, as more and more advanced collectors want to include this poster in their collection, but the number of available examples keeps diminishing! The last two example of this poster we auctioned sold for $14,500 (8 years ago) and $14,250 (2 years ago)! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had some small tears and tiny paper loss in the right 6" of the top horizontal fold, with a vertical tear above that, slightly extending into the "O" of "PRESTON". The rest of the folds a few tiny bits of paper loss. A tiny bit of the top blank border and the right blank border were trimmed off, but it was a very tiny bit, and only blank white paper was affected. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was expertly backed, and displays really well! Learn More about condition grades 
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