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Auction History Result p144 DOUBLE INDEMNITY linen Belgian movie poster '44 Billy Wilder Date Sold 3/21/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures approximately 14" x 22") (Learn More) Double Indemnity, the classic 1944 Billy Wilder (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) insurance fraud murder romantic crime film noir ("Paramount's terrific drama of an unholy love and an almost perfect crime!"; "From the Moment they met it was Murder!": "Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the novel by James M. Cain; about a man who works for an insurance company who meets the wife of a rich man who seduces him into helping her kill her husband, but they have to make it look like an accident so that they can collect double on his life insurance policy!) starring Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes), Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber, and Fortunio Bonanova 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 Belgian poster measures approximately 14" x 22" and is linenbacked. Condition: good. This poster was linenbacked, but it was either NOT linenbacked by a very talented restorer, OR it was linenbacked many years ago, and has received rough handling over the years, OR it had fairly significant defects that were not restorated at all. If it was restored, you can clearly see signs of the restoration even from a distance. This is a poster that would greatly benefit from additional professional restoration. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster was folded once horizontally and once vertically and there is minor wear along those foldlines. There are many creases, smudges, and stains around the edges of the poster. There is a 2" tear in the middle of the right border with tiny paper loss in the middle of the right blank border. The top theater area has a censor stamp and many stains. The poster was printed on the back of a map (typical of most Belgian posters that were printed during WWII, and thus assuring that it is from the very first release). If I owned this rare and important poster, I would have it re-backed by a very talented restorer. They could surely greatly minimize the stains through chemical means, and then, with a minimal amount of paint restoration, the poster would look wonderful! Learn More about condition grades 
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