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Auction History Result 2t905 THUNDERBALL 1sh '65 art of Sean Connery as James Bond 007 by Robert McGinnis! Date Sold 9/24/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Ian Fleming's Thunderball, the 1965 Terence Young English James Bond 007 secret agent spy espionage fantasy action adventure thriller ("L007k up! L007k down! L007k out!"; "Here comes the biggest Bond of all!"; "Based on the original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming") starring Sean Connery (as James Bond 007), Claudine Auger, (as Domino) Adolfo Celi (as Largo), Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter, Martine Beswick, Guy Doleman, Molly Peters, Bernard Lee (as "M"), Lois Maxwell (as Miss Moneypenny), Desmond Llewellyn (as "Q"), Paul Stassino, Bob Simmons, and Rose Alba NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Robert McGinnis & Frank McCarthy Important Added Info: Note that there are THREE variations of this "look up! look down! look out!" style of one-sheet that are all original to 1965! There are two that look identical except for the reversal of the producer credits (this was done on almost all Bond movies, so that Broccoli and Saltzman could each come first in "half" the world!). But the third variation has completely different placement of the NSS information at the bottom, PLUS the top of Connery's tank at the top center of the poster has been cropped so that it doesn't extend past the border. Plus the artwork in the middle section is cropped differently. ALL THREE OF THESE POSTERS ARE ORIGINAL TO 1965, AND AS FAR AS WE KNOW, COLLECTORS VALUE THEM EQUALLY! We have no idea why this extra variation was created, but we do know that, when the movie was re-released in the early 1980s (perhaps 1980), the "cropped tank" variation artwork was used for that one-sheet. The poster offered here is definitely the 1965 one-sheet with the "uncropped tank"! Condition: good to very good. The top 1 1/4" of the poster was folded back at one time and there are horizontal creases along the top and bottom horizontal folds and bottom edge of the poster from it being folded off-center at one time. There are two pin holes at center (above and below the crossfold) and there are several pin holes around the edges of the poster with some paper loss in the upper left corner and some 1" and smaller tears around the edges from rough removal. There are some stains and areas of writing on the back of the poster at upper left that very slightly bleed through to the front in the blank border at top right of the vertical fold, in the blank background left of the art of the jet pack, and at upper left in the area of the "7" in "L007K". The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition and its colors are still vibrant and if one chose to have it linenbacked it would look wonderful with very little paint restoration needed, although I'm sure most Bond collectors would be quite happy with it as it is! Learn More about condition grades 
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