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Auction History Result

e056 MAD DOCTOR one-sheet movie poster '40 Basil Rathbone

Date Sold 5/9/2006
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

The Mad Doctor (released in other English-speaking countries as "A Date with Destiny"), the 1940 Tim Whelan serial killer romantic crime murder thriller (written by Howard J. Green; also written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were not credited on the posters; about a seemingly normal doctor who marries women and then kills them, but because he is a doctor, he is able to say that they died of natural causes, because he does the autopsies!) starring Basil Rathbone (in the title role as the Mad Doctor), Ellen Drew, John Howard, Barbara Jo Allen (billed as "Barbara Allen [Vera Vague]"), Ralph Morgan, Martin Kosleck, and Sheila Ryan (billed as "Betty McLaughlin")
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Important Added Info: Note that there is a piece of tape on the back of the top and bottom crossfold and a piece of tape on the back of the left of the middle foldline (repairing a tear). There is also a piece of tape on the back of the bottom right corner covering a pinhole.

Condition: very good.
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