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Auction History Result 4r0305 NATURAL printer's test 20x26 uncut special poster 1984 faux official Roy Hobbs baseball cards! Date Sold 7/6/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Uncut Special Movie Poster (measures 20 1/4" x 26 1/4" [51 x 67 cm]) (Learn More) The Natural, the 1984 Barry Levinson romantic baseball sports melodrama ("From an age of innocence comes a hero for today."; "Based on the novel by Bernard Malamud") starring Robert Redford (as Roy Hobbs), Robert Duvall, Glenn Close (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Kim Basinger (in her fifth movie role!), Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, and Richard Farnsworth ("as 'Red'"). Note that the movie was pretty faithful to the source novel, but Hollywood felt the public could not accept the original unhappy ending, and as they have done so many other times, they changed it 180 degrees to a happy ending. 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 an uncut sheet of faux "baseball cards" featuring Robert Redford as the character Roy Hobbs! They use the Playball baseball card format from the 1940s, but there is no printing on the back. It is a very rare uncut printer's test poster (often referred to as a "printer's proof")! Before a poster was printed in large quantities, the printer would print a limited number of posters as "test" posters. Because they needed to be shown to people at the studio, people in the art department, the stars, etc, they would print a number of test posters and distribute them to these people. Some of them would be fully trimmed, but often they would leave the color chart on the left edge of many of the posters. Once these printer's test posters were shown to the various people in a position to "OK" them, the printer would print the full print run of the posters. Condition: very good to fine. The poster was never folded. It has darkened on back at left by approximately 6" but that has no effect on the front. Overall the uncut poster is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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