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Auction History Result 9g006 KILLERS 24sh '64 sexy full-length Angie Dickinson, Lee Marvin, directed by Don Siegel, rare! Date Sold 8/18/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Tri-Folded Twenty-Four-Sheet Movie Poster (24sh; measures approximately 9' x 20') (Learn More) Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, the 1964 Don Siegel (billed as "Donald Siegel") crime action thriller ("There is more than one way to kill a man..."; "Explosively New ...in color!"; very loosely based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway) starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager, and Claude Akins. This was originally made for TV, but it was so violent that it was released theatrically instead! This started Don Siegel on his action thriller career. 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 24-sheet is one of a remarkable group of six 24-sheets (and one English 30-sheet) that we are offering in seven separate auctions. These posters (often referred to as "billboard posters") were always pasted to walls or billboards when they were used, so the only ones that survive are the few that didn't get used at the time. But VERY, VERY few 24-sheets survive from any movie from before 1990, because no one thought to save them, and the unused ones were almost always trashed. To give you a sense of how very rare they are, we have held over 1.2 million auctions, and of those, around 75 of them were for 24-sheets, and only a dozen of them were from before 1960! So not only are the seven billboard movie posters offered here extremely rare (and some may be the only remaining example in existence), but they are also some of the very small number of billboard movie posters still in existence period! Note that this twenty-four sheet was printed in 15 sections designed to overlap. This 24-sheet poster was folded in a way that makes it resemble a tri-folded six-sheet (only much larger, of course, as there are many more sections). But the length and width of the folded 24-sheet is just about the same as that of a folded six-sheet or three-sheet. This means that this 24-sheet needs to be sent in an oversized flat package, which will measure roughly 16" x 36", and approximately 2" high, and it will cost more to send than a regular sized package. Condition: very good to fine. The poster was clearly never used. There is very slight darkening on the edges of some of the pieces and some tiny tears, but it likely has survived in as good condition as one would hope for a poster of this size from this time! Learn More about condition grades 
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