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Auction History Result 7b111 CHAMPION linen Japanese 36x60 R62 different images of boxer Kirk Douglas, boxing classic! Date Sold 4/6/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1962) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Japanese Movie Poster (measures 35 1/2" x 60" [90 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Ring Lardner's Champion, the classic 1949 Mark Robson family relationship romantic boxing sports crime film noir ("Fighting or loving he was the 'Champion'"; "Kiss by kiss... Blow by blow..."; "Every woman goes for a Champion"; about the rise and fall of a boxing champion; "From the story by Ring Lardner") starring Kirk Douglas (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; which is perhaps his finest performance!), Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, and Lola Albright 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 poster was printed in two sections and measures 35 3/4" x 60 1/4". For unknown reasons, Japanese poster makers made both this size (which consisted of two panels that each measured approximately 18" x 30", and which measured around 36" x 60" overall), but they also made a regular two-panel poster, which are exactly twice the size of a Japanese "B2", and which we refer to as "Japanese two-panel posters". This was done from at least the early 1960s through the early 1970s, but we don't know if it was done earlier or later as well. We also don't know if there is an official Japanese term for this size poster (which sometimes varies slightly from the measurements of this poster, and which sometimes can be found in one section or in two sections), but if someone e-mails us further information about this size, we will post it here. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on many parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects, and after it was backed, it was roughly handled, and there are now creases in the top and bottom of the vertical foldline (both in the poster and in the linen itself). Learn More about condition grades 
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