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Auction History Result 4d0324 GUNFIGHTER linen insert 1950 full-length Gregory Peck's only friends were his guns, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/16/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Gunfighter, the classic 1950 Henry King outlaw cowboy western ("His only friends were his guns... His only refuge was in a woman's heart!"; "From a Story by William Bowers and Andre de Toth"; about a champion gunfighter who returns to the town where his wife and son are, in the hopes of reuniting with them and "going straight", but circumstances beyond his control prevent that from happening) starring Gregory Peck (as Jimmy Ringo), Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell, Jean Parker, Karl Malden, Skip Homeier, Anthony Ross, Verna Felton, Ellen Corby, and Richard Jaeckel. Note that some key book stills for this movie have the title entered as "The Gun Fighter". We don't know if this was an early working title, or if it was just a case of someone making a mistake! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 we have previously auctioned four examples of this insert in all our years of auctioning! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had many creases and tears in the top 1" and some in parts of the rest of the borders. It had some smudges in some of the yellow background areas and some minor wear on the folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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