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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, the 1974 Sidney Lumet English railroad train mystery crime thriller ("The who's who in the whodunit!"; "The celebrated whodunnit"; based on the novel by Agatha Christie) starring Albert Finney (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Hercule Poirot), Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Jacqueline Bissett, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Colin Blakely, George Coulouris, and Denis Quilley
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Important Added Info: Note that each of these faux passports has been personally autographed (signed) by one of the EIGHT stars (each one signed "their" passport): Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, John Gielgud, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark, Michael York, AND Colin Blakely! When this movie was first released in 1974, someone at the studio had the fun idea of including faux passports for all of the top stars of this movie! Our consignor then had the even "more fun" idea of sending ALL of the faux passports to the individual actors, asking them to please sign them and return them! He received eight of them back, and those eight are included in this auction (each signed on the interior by those actors, as noted above). One could certainly display them together, or one could separate them, but no matter what, the winner of this auction will have a really cool set of faux passports (and the odds of anyone else having a similar set is very slim!).

Note that this autographed item is part of a remarkable collection. In our last all-signed auction, we auctioned nearly 500 items from this collection and now we are auctioning 162 more items!
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a teacher who taught a film class, and he also part-time ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s, he wrote to famous celebrities, and enclosed an 8x10 from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star.
     He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them.
     In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the 1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor!
     He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves. As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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