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Auction History Result 9x018 ABILENE TOWN 1sh '46 romantic image of Randolph Scott & Ann Dvorak! Date Sold 1/26/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Abilene Town, the 1946 Edwin L. Marin Texas cowboy western ("Ablaze with Guns and Guts and Glory!"; "Birthplace of our gun-slinging greatest.. from 'General Ike' on down!"; "Glory in the roaring story of America's fightin'est frontier days! Blazing with bullet-scarred thrills!!!!!"; "The glory-ridden story of America's birthplace of heroes!"; about a sheriff who tries to stop homesteader conflicts in the West after the Civil War) starring Randolph Scott, Ann Dvorak, Edgar Buchanan, Rhonda Fleming, Lloyd Bridges, Helen Boyce, and Howard Freeman 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 does not have a company name at the bottom and we are unsure who printed it. In the '30s and '40s a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie)! Condition: fair to good. There is much tattering and separation along the foldlines with several tape repairs on the back of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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