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Auction History Result 9g239 BORN TO KILL linen Argentinean '46 art of smoking Lawrence Tierney & sexy Claire Trevor! Date Sold 7/15/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Argentinean Movie Poster (measures 29" x 43" [74 x 109 cm]) (Learn More) Born to Kill (also released as "Deadlier Than the Male"), the classic 1947 Robert Wise romantic love triangle crime film noir ("Bullet-Man and Silken Savage"; "The coldest killer a woman ever loved"; about a beautiful divorced woman who could marry a rich man, but she is fatally attracted to a cold blooded psychopathic killer!) starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, and Elisha Cook Jr. Note that Lawrence Tierney portrayed the lead character so convincingly that it is hard to imagine that he wasn't a little "off" himself! 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 darkened around the edges. It had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. It had a 3" tear in the left of the middle of the poster (in the blue background next to the girl's dress) and a matching one in the right of the middle of the poster, next to the RKO logo. There were some brown stains scattered in the bottom yellow area and some stains in the borders of the poster. 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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