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Auction History Result 5a212 REEFER MADNESS linen 1sh '40s delinquent youth gone beserk, open your eyes for a shock, rare! Date Sold 3/5/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) Reefer Madness, the 1936 Louis J. Gasnier marijuana marihuana pot weed drug thriller ("Marijuana drugs, Weed from the Devil's garden!"; "One moment of bliss, a lifetime of regret!"; "Hunting a thrill, they inhaled a drag of concentrated sin!"; "Wake up America! Here's a roadside weed that's fast becoming a national high-way!"; "Women cry for it, men die for it!"; "What actually happens!"; "Never before such exciting frankness"; "A Daring Theme!"; "Dope-created ecstasy avalanching into frightful perversions"; "Makes Beasts of Men & Women"; "Adults only") starring Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Carlton Young, Kenneth Craig, and Lillian Miles. Note that drug and mature movies like these were extremely popular in "late night" showings at small town theaters throughout the 1940s, and they were often re-issued and re-named multiple times. In the case of this movie, it was re-issued under titles such as "The Burning Question" and "Tell Your Children", each time with lurid images and taglines! 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 one-sheet, which measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm], was recently discovered, together with posters from other 1940s exploitation movies (those will be in a later section of our major auction, because those are not backed). All of the posters date from the 1940s, so we would think that this poster surely does as well. We know that the movie played throughout the United States in the 1940s under both the title "Reefer Madness" and "The Burning Question". There are one-sheets and window cards from the 1940s "Burning Question" release, and prior to the discovery of this poster, we had only seen stock posters for the 1940s "Reefer Madness" release, each of which had a head & shoulders image of a pretty girl with a white text block next to her head giving taglines for the movie, and "ADULTS ONLY" at the bottom of the poster. THIS poster, which we have never auctioned before, has a completely different image and taglines! If anyone knows more about this poster or any of the above, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds. It had tiny tears and tiny areas of paper loss scattered down the vertical fold, with some in the right half of the middle horizontal fold and some scattered in the bottom horizontal fold. It had a tear with tiny paper loss in the top of the "D" of "MADNESS". It had a pinhole in each corner. It had a pinhole and a piece of tape in each corner. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed really well by a top restorer, and it will display incredibly on the new owner's wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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