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Auction History Result 5p010 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS linen style A 1/2sh '56 sci-fi classic, hand print design! Date Sold 3/3/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (released in Mexico as "The Body Snatchers"), the classic 1956 Don Siegel science fiction (sci-fi) horror alien invasion romantic thriller ("Walter Wanger creates the ultimate in science-fiction!"; "They come from another world!"; "Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable!"; "Something is happening! Send your men of science quick! The panic stricken cry went over the phone to Washington D. C. until the lines went dead!......."; "Colliers's Magazine called it 'The nightmare that threatens the world!'"; "Based on the Collier's Magazine Serial by Jack Finney"; about aliens invading Earth by replacing people with alien counterparts that grow as pods, and then take over the person's identity when the person falls asleep; one by one, a town is taken over, and the few remaining unaffected people try to stop them and get the word out, but they are stopped at every turn; most people see this as a thinly veiled parable of the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which found "Communists" behind every door in Hollywood!; others protest that it greatly borrowed the plot of Robert A. Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters", which had been written five years before; ironically, when The Puppet Masters finally came to the screen in 1994, it was criticized for being a rip-off of this movie!) starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter ("Sensational star discovery of 'The View From Pompey's Head' ... Dana Wynter in the year's most startling role!"), Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, and Ralph Dumke 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 while this style A poster has the "hand print" image that is on most of the other U.S. posters, it does not have the image of McCarthy and Wynter fleeing, but instead it has them kissing, and it has the other characters running across the "fingers" of the hand print! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had two semi-circular stains in the left and right of the bottom border, extending into the bottom edge of the writing and a semi-circular stain in the left of the top border, extending into the edge of the red background, with a circle of marker writing beneath it on the back of the poster, which bled through near the top of the red background. It had a stain in the center of the top blank border. Other than these stains, the poster was in pretty nice condition prior to backing, and it was never folded! It was well backed, and you can see slight signs of the above defects, but they are not very distracting (and certainly, any restorer could touch up those areas without re-backing the poster, if the new owner desired). Learn More about condition grades 
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