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Auction History Result c258 LEOPARD MAN style B half-sheet movie poster '43 Tourneur, Val Lewton Date Sold 12/6/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) The Leopard Man, the 1943 Jacques Tourneur wild-animal-on-the-loose murder mystery crime thriller ("Women alone the victims of strange, savage killer!"; "You'll gasp with amazement!"; "Thrill-Killer of Women and Girls!"; "You'll be astounded to learn that such things can happen!"; "Death striking from the dark with ripping fury!...Was it man or beast that tore to shreds victim after victim - striking only at defenseless beauty? ...Know the truth about these murders-for-a-thrill!"; "Produced by Val Lewton"; based on the novel 'Black Alibi' by Cornell Woolrich; as in "Cat People", Lewton and Tourneur did not have money for much make-up or special effects, so the posters for this movie promise much more than the film actually delivered in terms of a monster, but the movie works quite well on its own terms!) starring Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Ben Bard, Abner Biberman, and Margaret Landry. A knowledgeable collector tells us that this may be the first film to use the desert of the American Southwest as a setting for a horror film. 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 poster has never been machine folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded once horizontally and once vertically right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded example of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Condition: good to very good. There was a 4" tear in the middle of the right of the poster and someone put brown paper tape on the back. There was a 1/2" tear in the right border 3" above that (in the white border only), and someone put brown paper tape on the back of that. There are three small pieces of brown paper tape on the back of the left border covering tears. There was a semi-circular area of paper loss in the right of the bottom border (again, blank white paper only), and someone re-attached that area with brown paper tape from the back. There are creases, smudges, and tiny tears around all the edges of the poster. THE POSTER IS IN MUCH BETTER CONDITION THAN THE ABOVE MAKES IT SOUND! The defects are primarily in the blank borders, and slightly around the edges of the image, but the rest of the image is in pretty nice condition, and the poster has never been folded. After a simple paperbacking by a talented restorer, this poster will look incredible, and there will be little paint anywhere in the image! Learn More about condition grades 
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