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Auction History Result 9h277 HORROR OF DRACULA rare blue style 3sh '58 Hammer, cool vampire & sexy girl art by Joseph Smith Date Sold 7/17/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Dracula (released in the U.S. as "Horror of Dracula" and "Dracula 1958"), the classic 1958 Terence Fisher English Hammer vampire horror thriller ("The chill of the tomb won't leave your blood for hours... After you come face-to-face with Dracula !"; "Who will be his bride tonight?"; "The terrifying lover who died... Yet lived!"; "The chill of the tomb won't leave your blood for hours... after you come face-to-face with Dracula !"; "Don't dare see it... alone!"; "All New! In Brilliant Technicolor!"; "Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster"; "From the novel by Bram Stoker") starring Peter Cushing (as Doctor Van Helsing), Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, Christopher Lee (in the title role "as Dracula"), John Van Eyssen, Valerie Gaunt, and Janina Faye. Note that this was the very first of the Hammer Dracula movies! Given how popular they are today, it seems surprising that it took two years to make a sequel (The Brides of Dracula in 1960), and even more surprising that Christopher Lee did not reprise his role (David Peel took over in this one). To be fair, Christopher Lee had played Sherlock Holmes in the interim, and that was probably more interesting to him. Hammer and he didn't return to Dracula until 1966 with Dracula: Prince of Darkness, and there were five more Dracula Hammer movies between 1968 and 1972! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Joseph Smith Important Added Info: Note that the one-sheet poster for this movie has been seen multiple times in two versions. They are completely identical to each other except that one has a blueish background and the other has a greenish background. Since I have been consigned both posters from theater owners who showed this movie on its first release, I think they simply printed both versions on its first release, and that they are both original release (but it is interesting to note that the three-sheets we have seen have a green background, and we have not seen one with a blue background, but of course, that does not necessarily mean anything). But until we were consigned this "blue" three-sheet, we had no idea that the three-sheet was ALSO created in two different color versions (we have previously sold three of the "green" three-sheets, but this is the very first time we have ever seen a "blue" three-sheet)! Condition: good. The poster was attached to a wall, with many pinholes around the edges and some tiny pieces of tape on the back of the corners. The two pieces were attached to each other with a series of tiny pieces of tape across the area where they join. The tape is all long gone, but it has left yellowed stains in those areas. There is some darkening on the back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded. There are also some creases and several tears along the foldlines that were on the outside when the poster was fully folded. There are some creases, smudges, and tiny tears on some foldlines, and some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds. Learn More about condition grades 
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