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Auction History Result w053 BLACK DRAGONS half-sheet movie poster R49 Bela Lugosi sci-fi horror! Date Sold 11/7/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1949) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Folded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Black Dragons, the 1942 William Nigh World War II (WWII) espionage spy plastic surgery melodrama (a really great story that began filming on January 22, 1942, just six weeks after Pearl Harbor, surely making it one of the very first anti-Japanese movies filmed in America after the attack; it has a wild plot!; Lugosi is a prominent plastic surgeon who is sent to Japan in the late 1920s, and he is hired to operate on six Japanese men and make them duplicates of six prominent Americans; he does so, and then he is immediately imprisoned; the Japanese send a man who looks a lot like Lugosi to America to murder the six Americans so that the altered Japanese can take their place, and he successfully does; afterwards, he too is imprisoned, so that he can't reveal what was done; years later, the imprisoned plastic surgeon meets the killer and kills him, and performs plastic surgery on himself to make him the duplicate of the man he killed, and he then gets out of prison and goes to America, where he, in revenge for being imprisoned, starts killing the altered Japanese one by one; the American officials don't know that, so they think there is a serial killer killing prominent Americans, and after five are killed, they lay a trap for him, and catch him as he is about to kill the sixth and final one!) starring Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, George Pembroke, Clayton Moore, and Robert Frazer. Note that Bela Lugosi's career had substantially cooled off by this point (surely aided by his drug problems), and this was a pretty low budget B-picture, but many people report that it is quite entertaining, and certainly, it had a really wild (if completely unbelievable) plot, and everyone agrees that Lugosi gives one of his best performances in years (actually two performances, because he plays a dual role!). 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 this poster was machine folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. There are rough creases across both foldlines. There is a 1 1/2" scuff mark in Lugosi's cheek, with a faint 1/2" scuff mark above it. There is a scuff mark in the cheek of the man at right. There are many creases and smudges and a few tiny tears around the edges of the poster. The poster has never been restored at all, EXCEPT there is a 1" x 3" piece of clear tape on the back of the bottom left corner. What is unusual about this tape is that it is from Heritage Auctions, and apparently it was applied directly to the poster to identify which lot this poster was! One certainly WOULD have thought that a "major" auction house would NEVER put tape directly on a movie poster, but this was done in 2002, and we can only hope that this is no longer done at this auction house! IN THIS SPECIAL HALLOWEEN AUCTION, we have given a more detailed overall condition grade along with more details about the condition described in words. Of course, we could not describe every single defect, plus there are some defects (like separation on folds, tape on the back, extremely tiny pinholes, etc) which can be VERY difficult to see, even in our largest "super-sized" image. Therefore we strongly recommend that you BOTH read our written description of the item, AND ALSO look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe. Learn More about condition grades 
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