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Auction History Result 5z045 BLOOD & SAND linen 1sh R44 Carlos Ruano-Llopis art + Power & Rita Hayworth in full-color! Date Sold 7/14/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1944 Re-release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Vincent Blasco Ibanez' Blood and Sand, the 1941 Rouben Mamoulian Spain bullfighting matador toreador romantic love triangle melodrama ("The matador who defied death... for love!"; "Tyrone Power in Vicente Blasco Ibanez' Blood and Sand"; "Based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibanez"; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck) starring Tyrone Power Jr., Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova (billed as "Nazimova"), Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, Lynn Bari, John Carradine, Laird Cregar, Monty Banks, Vicente Gomez, and George Reeves. Note that famous silent screen star Alla Nazimova came out of retirement in 1940 and made five movies from then to 1945, including this one! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Carlos Ruano-Llopis Important Added Info: Note that at first glance, this poster would appear to be a 1941 original, and in fact, we mistakenly sold it as that in our last linen auction. However, it has a slightly different image from that of the 1941 poster, and the credits placement is different (the inset image of Power and Hayworth is full color, whereas it was black & white on the original). We were able to determine that this poster is from a 1944 re-release. How? The key to determining when it is from is the small "litho number" in the bottom left corner, in this case "9039". We have recorded litho numbers from many, many thousands of posters, which means we can compare this number to our database of numbers from other posters, and once we did so, it was easy to determine that the poster is not from 1941, but rather from 1944 (there are a lot of 20th Century Fox posters from 1944 with litho numbers very close to this, and the 20th Century Fox posters from 1941 have litho numbers around 5900). Why would they have done a re-release so soon after the original? Because in 1944, most of the major stars were serving in the military and studios were running out of new product to distribute. All the studios did lots of re-releases in 1944 and 1945, usually of their biggest hits, and they would NOT mark them as re-releases likely in the hopes of deceiving people into thinking they were newly made movies. What is especially interesting in this case is that, as we noted above, the poster designer made the inset image of the stars full-color, where it had been two-color three years before, plus improving on the original! Condition: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and a few creases and tears in the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. There were pinholes in the corners and some creases and tears in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that at some point after linenbacking, the poster was roughly handled and there are now minor creases in the left and right borders of the poster (solely in the excess linen, and not in the poster itself). Learn More about condition grades 
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