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Auction History Result 7e187 THIS GUN FOR HIRE linen 1sh '42 classic image of Alan Ladd with gun & sexy Veronica Lake! Date Sold 3/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) This Gun For Hire, the classic 1942 Frank Tuttle spy espionage counterfeiting murder crime film noir ("Killer without a conscience! Lover without a heart?"; "Based on the novel by Graham Greene") starring Veronica Lake (as a magician who does card tricks!), Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Mikhail Rasumny, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Emmett Vogan, and Victor Kilian. Note that Alan Ladd was fourth billed in this movie (he had been in movies for several years, including in Citizen Kane, but he had mostly tiny roles), but this movie made him a major star. It is incredibly fortunate that the U.S. poster artist chose to feature only fourth-billed Ladd and first-billed Lake on the one-sheet, making it one of the most desirable U.S. posters! 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 there are just a handful of the very most "iconic" movie poster images ever (the ones someone would pick when asked to pick the very best movie posters ever created). There is no one I know of who does not include this poster on their short list! Not only is it from one of the most classic film noir movies ever, but it has wonderful art. You would expect that for Veronica Lake (who was a major star), but the unknown poster artist chose to picture fourth-billed Alan Ladd (and to NOT picture second-billed Robert Preston or third-billed Laird Cregar!), and the result is a "perfect" movie poster! In recent years, this poster has steadily continued to rise in price, as more and more advanced collectors want to include this poster in their collection, but the number of available examples keeps diminishing. The poster offered here has clear defects (as are carefully noted below), but the poster was expertly restored, and has not had restoration throughout (that would give it a "restored" look), and it will display wonderfully on the new owner's wall! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tears and tiny areas of paper loss scattered down the vertical foldline. There was a 6" vertical tear running from the bottom of the "O" of "PRESTON" to the top foldline, and some small tears and tiny paper loss in the left of the top foldline (including some in Lake's forehead), with minor wear on the other two folds. There were some pinholes and tears in the top border and most of the left and right borders were trimmed off. It was mostly only blank white paper that was trimmed, but it affected the right edge of the Paramount logo at the bottom. There was an irregular tear in the bottom of the "R" of "HIRE" in the title. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was really expertly backed by an extremely talented restorer, and it now displays really wonderfully, and I would think almost anyone would be happy to have it on their wall, and that few people could tell what restoration was done by looking at it on the wall, and yet it does not have a "restored" look! Learn More about condition grades 
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