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Auction History Result 3a022 PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND 40x60 '36 John Ford, Warner Baxter & Gloria Stuart full-length! Date Sold 12/11/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Melloy Bros. Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60") (Learn More) The Prisoner of Shark Island, the 1936 John Ford Civil War era Presidential assassination prison crime convict melodrama ("This is the story of Dr. Samuel Mudd who for the crime of ministering to the wounds of Lincoln's assassin is confined to - Shark Island!"; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; a fictionalized account of what happened to the doctor who innocently treated John Wilkes Booth after he shot President Abraham Lincoln, and how he was imprisoned due to the hysteria of the time) starring Warner Baxter (as Dr. Samuel Mudd), Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron, O.P. Heggie (best remembered as the blind man who befriends the monster in "The Bride of Frankenstein", and also as the next door cellmate to Robert Donat in "The Count of Monte Cristo"), Harry Carey Sr., Francis McDonald (as John Wilkes Booth), Frank McGlynn Sr. (as President Abraham Lincoln), "and a cast of 1,000" 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 is one of the special 40x60 posters that were created by the Meloy Bros. Inc company of Shelbyville, Indiana in 1935 and 1936! This company created special 40x60 posters that were distributed to theaters in the Midwest, and are NOT like 40x60 posters that were created by the studios at that time. VERY IMPORTANT! CLICK THIS LINK TO READ FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE SPECIAL POSTERS (do not bid on this poster until you have read the information on the linked page). Condition: fair to good. There are many noticeable scuffs and scratches in Baxter's clothes and in the background above him, and a 5" repaired tear in the top center of the poster. There is a scratch in Stuart's eye. There is surface paper loss and tiny paper loss around the edges of the poster (more so in the corners), and the poster is "lifting" from the board in the corners. There are also some other scuffs and smudges throughout the image and some dents and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster (please study our super-sized image to clearly see the above described defects). Certainly, a talented restorer could perform restoration to this poster, after which the defects would not be very noticeable at all. Learn More about condition grades 
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