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Auction History Result 2a223 THIS ISLAND EARTH 40x60 '55 best image of alien with Domergue, Morrow & Reason, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/30/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style Y Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) This Island Earth, the 1955 Joseph M. Newman science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("The supreme excitement of our time!"; "2 1/2 years in the making! ...to bring you sights of Fantastic Amazement never before possible on the motion picture screen!"; "Trapped amid the mysteries of outer space they challenged the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; "In out-of-this-world color by Technicolor"; "The mortal's World is left behind!"; "Earthlings prepared for Outer Space!"; "Kidnapped in midair by giant Space Ship!"; "Pursued by the deadly rays of destruction"; "Crashing the blazing thermal barrier"; "Two mortals trapped in outer space... challenging the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; based on the novel by Raymond F. Jones) starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, and Russell Johnson. Note that some advertising material refers to the title as "This Island, Earth", while others (including the one-sheet) have "This Island Earth". Note that the wonderful alien creature costumes in this movie were created by a woman named Milicent Patrick, who you probably never heard of, but she deserves to be well remembered. She was a top pianist as a young girl, and she graduated from high school at 14. She went to work for Disney as an artist in the animation department in the late 1940s, and she was the first female hired by Disney in that capacity. In 1954, she designed the classic creature costume used in Creature From the Black Lagoon, but the head of the makeup department on that movie did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal around a year later. It is said that she also created some of the well known costumes in other Universal horror and sci-fi movies preceding this, but there is no clear record as to which ones (but some great monsters of this time, including the ones in this movie, "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably be her design). She turned to acting, appearing in a few movies and on TV, but she pretty much vanished in the early 1960s. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. She certainly deserves massive credit for her contributions to Creature From the Black Lagoon, this movie, and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. 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: Just about every horror/sci-fi collector there is greatly prefers this style Y 40x60 poster to the other posters created for this movie, because those other posters have a montage of images that are not very "eye catching", while THIS poster has a wonderfully campy image of the wild alien grabbing Faith Domergue with Jeff Morrow and Rex Reason in the glass tubes behind them. We have auctioned it twice before, but the last time was 19 years ago! Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. It was generally in pretty nice condition, especially considering its age and size. It had stains and small tears scattered in the bottom border, with an 8" tear near the center of the bottom border, a 3" tear 2" to the left of that, and a 3" tear in the left of the bottom border. The poster was also re-used during the 1964 re-release, and an NSS stamp for that re-release was stamped by the original NSS printed numbers in the top left corner and the bottom right corner (see our image). The owner of the poster sent it to a top restorer, who performed restoration to the bottom border stains and tears, and also to the three tears that extended into the bottom of the image (described above). They did not back the poster, and they did not otherwise restore it. It certainly has had minimal restoration! It can be displayed and enjoyed on any wall, and of course, one could choose to perform additional restoration, although I would be surprised if the next owner chose to do so. Either way, it will look incredible on the new owner's wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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