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Auction History Result 5k182 THIS GUN FOR HIRE style B 1/2sh '42 different image of Alan Ladd & sexy Veronica Lake! Date Sold 12/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 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. Condition: very good. The poster was "starch backed", which means that it was moistened with a special starch solution, attached to a backing, allowed to dry, and then the poster had touch up while it was backed, and afterward, the backing was removed. This particular poster was folded once in each direction and it had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds, and a few tiny bits of paper loss 2" above and below the crossfold on the vertical foldline, with minor wear on the rest of the folds. There were some creases and scuffs scattered throughout the image. There was a large NSS stamp in the lower left of the image (in the chest of Cregar and Preston and it has very slightly bled through to the front. Other than the above, the poster was in pretty nice condition prior to starch backing. The poster was starch backed by a talented professional, who performed restoration to the above pretty minor defects, and it now looks fantastic, and it has had truly minor touch up, and best of all, it still completely looks and feels like an unrestored poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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