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Auction History Result 5a268 DESPERATE HOURS linen 40x60 '55 William Wyler, different color portraits of Bogart & cast! Date Sold 8/8/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style z Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) The Desperate Hours, the 1955 William Wyler crime hostage thriller ("Adapted from the novel and play by Joseph Hayes"; based on a real-life story of a family taken hostage in their own home by escaped convicts; the person whose life this was based on sued for invasion of privacy, but he was ruled a "public figure" by the Supreme Court, and this was the first such case, and now means that public figures have no ability to restrict invasion into their privacy!) starring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy, and Richard Eyer. An interesting piece of trivia is that the lawyer who defended the real life family in the Supreme Court case to try to preserve their right to privacy was Richard Nixon, later President of the United States! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. The poster had darkened in the borders and there were tears and tiny paper loss in the top and bottom of the left borders. There was an uneven tear in the lower right border extending into the right end of both lines of the larger credits, with some staining in that area and also in the middle left of those same credits. Other than the above, the poster was in pretty nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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