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Auction History Result 6s262 OLD SPANISH CUSTOM linen 1sh 1936 great art of Buster Keaton in his funniest feature comedy! Date Sold 6/9/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Invader (released in the U.S. as "An Old Spanish Custom"), the 1936 Adrian Brunel English romantic Spain adventure comedy ("A Melbert Special"; "The world's greatest fun-maker in his funniest feature comedy!"; about an inept rich man who sails to Spain with his beautiful mistress, and she gets him entangled in all sorts of dangerous situations) starring Buster Keaton ("in his funniest feature comedy"), Lupita Tovar, Hilda Moreno, ("and a great cast") Lyn Harding, and Esme Percy. Note that this movie was produced by Sam Spiegel, and he hired cinematographer Eugen Schufftan, who had worked with Pabst and other expressionistic European directors, and he DID add to the quality of this movie! Also note that Buster Keaton remade this movie as a short, "Pest from the West", three years later when he was hired by Columbia. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny tears, smudges, and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds. It had pinholes and smudges around the edges and smudges in the yellow letters of Keaton's credit. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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