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Auction History Result 9d195 THIS GUN FOR HIRE linen 1sh '42 great image of Alan Ladd with gun & sexy Veronica Lake! Date Sold 6/2/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A 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 poster offered here has clear defects (as are carefully noted below), but the poster was expertly restored, and has not had restoration throughout (that would give it a "restored" look), and it will display wonderfully on the new owner's wall! 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 small tears and small areas of paper loss in the left half of the top foldline and in the vertical foldline between the top and middle crossfolds. There was a small area of paper loss in the middle of the "R" of "FOR", just above the paper loss at the bottom crossfold. There was a long fine cut in the poster, which started at the left end of the top foldline and extended through Lake's hair, and curved over into the edge of her cheek, and ended down at the left edge of the "S" of "THIS" (there was no paper loss, and it is very faint, because it was a clean cut). There were some extra creases and a few tiny tears on the rest of the foldlines and some pinholes, tears, and tiny paper loss around the edges of the poster (including a 1/2" x 1" area of paper loss in the bottom left corner, which included the "1-A", which denoted the poster style). Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed many years ago, and only minimal restoration was performed to the above defects. In addition, the restorer left 1 1/4" of excess linen around the edges of the linen, and half of that area was folded back and stapled to a stretcher, and the poster was framed that way for many years (the folding and stapling of the excess linen does not affect the poster in the slightest. While I can imagine many collectors being happy to frame this poster as it is, if I owned this wonderful poster, I would have a talented restorer remove it from the old linen and have it re-backed (or at least I would have additional restoration performed without backing it). That way, the poster could look its absolute best, and I already envy the new owner of this poster, however they decide to display it! Learn More about condition grades 
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