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Auction History Result 5p0044 DOUBLE INDEMNITY linen Belgian 1945 Billy Wilder, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Robinson Date Sold 9/1/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1945 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14" x 19 1/2" [36 x 50 cm]) (Learn More) Double Indemnity, the classic 1944 Billy Wilder (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) insurance fraud murder romantic crime film noir ("Paramount's terrific drama of an unholy love and an almost perfect crime!"; "From the Moment they met it was Murder!": "Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the novel by James M. Cain; about a man who works for an insurance company who meets the wife of a rich man who seduces him into helping her kill her husband, but they have to make it look like an accident so that they can collect double on his life insurance policy!) starring Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes), Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber, and Fortunio Bonanova 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 this movie could not have been released in Belgium in 1944, because they were still occupied by the Nazis at that time. The movie opened in France in 1946, after France was liberated, and it would seem extremely likely that it played in Belgium at that same time. Also note that this poster was printed on the back of an old map! During World War II in Belgium, there was a massive paper shortage, and so they used whatever paper they could find to print the movie posters, and in many cases they used old maps, and printed the movie posters on the reverse. They often also made the posters smaller, so they could get more posters printed. This practice continued for a couple of years after World War II. Since these posters are original, and since all such posters are printed on the back of maps or other posters, this is not considered a defect by almost all collectors. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster was printed on the back of a map (see above). The printing on the back shows through to the front in the light colored areas of the poster, which includes the faces of all three stars. The poster also originally had a blank top that was neatly partially trimmed off (this is commonly done with Belgian posters, similar to how the blank top is trimmed off of U.S. window cards). Otherwise, the poster has a crease in the upper right and a few tiny stains in the bottom border. This bleed-through would be on all examples of this poster that were printed on the back of maps, which is likely all or most of them, but please consider this important defect before bidding on this really cool poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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