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Auction History Result 6g376 BOOT POLISH Mexican poster '58 Raj Kapoor, poor orphans learn to shine shoes instead of beg! Date Sold 4/27/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Mexican Movie Poster (measures 23 1/2" x 31 1/4" [60 x 79 cm]) (Learn More) Raj Kapoor's Boot Polish, the 1954 (released in the U.S. in 1958) Prakash Arora Indian juvenile family relationship orphans poverty melodrama (produced by Raj Kapoor; about a pair of young children whose mother dies and the father goes to prison, and they are sent to live with their aunt who is a prostitute, and she sets them out begging, but they meet a man who helps them start to give shoe-shines, and that improves their life until the monsoon season, when no one gets shoe-shines, and they are separated, and the girl is adopted by a rich family, but she doesn't know what became of her brother) starring Kumari Naaz, Rattan Kumar, David Abraham, Chand Burke, and Veera. Note that this is a classic example of what is known today as "Bollywood", movies made in India about Indians with all Indian cast and crews. It obviously owes a huge debt to Vittorio De Sica's 1946 "Sciuscia" (Shoeshine), with a similar plot, but this apparently is a really excellent movie, and the child actors, who were quite young when the movie was filmed, do an excellent job. 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. This Mexican poster is in surprisingly good condition. Mexican posters were printed on a paper stock that often ages very poorly, and also darkens. This particular poster has darkened slightly, but is not very fragile at all, which is unusual for Mexican posters! Learn More about condition grades 
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