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Auction History Result 7e093 PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE linen 11x14 Belgian '46 art of Humphrey Bogart & Michele Morgan, Curtiz Date Sold 3/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1946; from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/4" x 14 1/4" [29 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Passage to Marseille, the 1944 Michael Curtiz France World War II (WWII) military prisoners-fighting-Nazis Devil's Island action melodrama (this is the extremely convoluted movie about French convicts escaping from Devil's Island to fight for Free France in World War II, with flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks; "From a Novel by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall", the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty") starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michele Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Helmut Dantine, Peter Lorre, and George Tobias 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 been told that the printer information on the bottom of this poster is only associated with Belgian posters from the late 1950s, but we think this is surely incorrect, because we have never seen one of these very small Belgian posters from after 1947 (see below). If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that during World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had minor wear on the foldline and pinholes and a few faint stains by the corner pinholes in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting (and a talented restorer could touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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