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Auction History Result 2j060 HORROR OF DRACULA linen 3sh '58 Hammer, cool vampire & sexy girl art by Joseph Smith Date Sold 11/3/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Dracula (released in the U.S. as "Horror of Dracula" and "Dracula 1958"), the classic 1958 Terence Fisher English Hammer vampire horror thriller ("The chill of the tomb won't leave your blood for hours... After you come face-to-face with Dracula !"; "Who will be his bride tonight?"; "The terrifying lover who died... Yet lived!"; "The chill of the tomb won't leave your blood for hours... after you come face-to-face with Dracula !"; "Don't dare see it... alone!"; "All New! In Brilliant Technicolor!"; "Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster"; "From the novel by Bram Stoker") starring Peter Cushing (as Doctor Van Helsing), Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Christopher Lee (in the title role "as Dracula"), John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt, and Janina Faye. Note that this was the very first of the Hammer Dracula movies! Given how popular they are today, it seems surprising that it took two years to make a sequel (The Brides of Dracula in 1960), and even more surprising that Christopher Lee did not reprise his role (David Peel took over in this one). To be fair, Christopher Lee had played Sherlock Holmes in the interim, and that was probably more interesting to him. Hammer and he didn't return to Dracula until 1966 with Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and there were five more Dracula Hammer movies between 1968 and 1972! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Joseph Smith Important Added Info: Note that the one-sheet poster for this movie has been seen multiple times in two versions. They are completely identical to each other except that one has a blueish background and the other has a greenish background. Since I have been consigned both posters from theater owners who showed this movie on its first release, I think they simply printed both versions on its first release, and that they are both original release. But in 2014, we received further confirmation that both colors were made on the first release, because for the first time, we were consigned a "blue" three-sheet (prior to that, we had no idea that the three-sheet was ALSO created in two different color versions). That example of the poster was not backed, and was in lesser condition, while this example, only the second "blue" three-sheet we have had, has been professionally linenbacked. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had many pinholes around the edges, and there were tape stains in the area where the two pieces joined. There were some creases, smudges, and tiny tears on parts of some foldlines, and some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds, and some tears and tiny paper loss in small parts of the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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