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Auction History Result 5p0496 GENTLEMAN FROM EPSOM linen 1sh 1962 cool artwork of Jean Gabin over horse racing scene! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1964 Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Le Gentleman d'Epsom (released in the U.S. in 1964 as "The Gentleman from Epsom"), the 1962 Gilles Grangier French horse racing sports gambling crime comedy (about a distinguished elderly Frenchman who is a fraud; he makes his living by selling false tips to betters at the race track!) starring Jean Gabin, Madeleine Robinson, Franck Villard, Jean Lefebvre, Joelle Bernard, Jacques Marin, Jean Martinelli, Paul Frankeur, and Louis de Funes 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 have only previously auctioned three examples of this one-sheet! Note that this is a poster or lobby card that was printed by MGM for a European movie that they distributed in the U.S.. Somewhere in the early 1960s, MGM apparently made a huge "trade" deal with European movie distributors. From the early 1960s to the late 1960s, MGM released 100 or more non-U.S. movies in the U.S. under the MGM logo (some dating back to the 1950s), and in return, they apparently gave 100 or more MGM movies (from the 1950s and early 1960s) to those European distributors to release in Europe. All of the posters from both sets of releases have a very similar type of somewhat garish, very colorful artwork, and some have an MGM logo that is different from than on other MGM movies of the same time period, which makes it likely that those (with different logos) are from re-releases. None of these posters (except for the very first few of them) have any dates on them. Over the years, I have seen many of these posters (from both types) sold as first release, but, as stated above, some of these are mid to late 1960s re-releases, and the ones from U.S. movies are "international" posters (or lobby cards) that were used in non-U.S. countries. If anyone knows more about these MGM releases, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and some darkening in the top quarter of the vertical fold. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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