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Auction History Result M169 SABOTEUR linen Belgian movie poster '42 Hitchcock Date Sold 4/27/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Undated (probably late 1940s and almost surely the first Belgian release) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 15" x 22") (Learn More) Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (released in other English-speaking countries as "The Man Behind Your Back"), the 1942 Alfred Hitchcock World War II (WWII) spy espionage crime suspense thriller ("You'd like to say - It Can't Happen Here! ...but every jolting scene is True!!"; "3000 miles of terror!"; "Secret lookouts! Rats... in evening dress! Aircraft plant destroyed! A battleship blasted!"; about a factory worker who is falsely accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker, but actually, he is just being set up by a group of spies; the man flees, trying to clear himself, while he is pursued by both the spies and police; he ends up thrown together with pretty Priscilla Lane, who at first thinks he is guilty, but comes to believe in his innocence) starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings (Bob Cummings), Norman Lloyd (in the title role), Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Peterson, Clem Bevans, Jean Trent, Will Wright, Tony Randall (uncredited and in his first role), Billy Curtis, Mary Curtis (Billy and Mary were little people, as well as husband and wife, in a circus sequence in this movie). Note that Hitchcock "borrowed" many of the plot elements of his classic British movie "The 39 Steps", updating the plot to a World War II setting. Also, the real saboteurs were intended to be Nazis in the script but the movie never mentions this. 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 15" x 22" and is linenbacked. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and the restorer did a good job, but you can see signs of the restoration from inches away (since most people look at posters framed on a wall from at least a few feet away, we don't feel this is a defect, but we feel it should be noted). See below for this poster's pre-restoration condition (we are the only major auction company we know of that shares this information with our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). good to very good. All of the blank borders of the poster were trimmed off, including any small writing at the bottom. The person who linenbacked the poster added new blank borders, and did a nice job. The image area of the poster had horizontal creases, which have been greatly minimized during the linenbacking process. Learn More about condition grades 
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