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Auction History Result

7a0611 FLESH MERCHANT linen 1sh 1956 wayward girls bought, sold, and traded, The Wild & Wicked!

Date Sold 8/4/2024
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More)

The Flesh Merchant (also released as "The Wild and Wicked"), the 1956 W. Merle Connell white slavery prostitution sexploitation melodrama ("Exposing"; "Shocking drama of wayward girls"; "A true story that shocked and rocked the nation"; "All new! Wide screen"; "Models wanted! No experience necessary"; "Beautiful Hollywood models lured into scarlet Vice by vicious gang lords"; "Girls! Bought, sold and traded"; "Innocent girls swept into a mad whirlpool of distruction [sic]"; about a young woman who goes from her small town to visit her "successful" older sister in Hollywood, California, but when she gets there, she discovers that her sister is a high priced prostitute, and two days later, she herself is also working there; she wants to leave, but the mobsters who run the place have other ideas) starring Joy Reynolds, Geri Moffatt, Marko Perri, Guy Manford, and Lisa Rack. Note that this movie had an odd release history, opening in Austin, Texas in January 1956, and then in New York City in May 1956. It was released by both Sonney Amusement and Joseph Brenner, and it had two release names, which may have been because it had two different distributors. Movie paper with the title "The Flesh Merchant" is far more rare than that with the title " The Wild and Wicked". We have auctioned a single pressbook with that title, but we have never auctioned a one-sheet (although the pressbook does show an image of that one-sheet).
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Important Added Info: Note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm].

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had creases, tears, and paper loss scattered across the top fold and some on the rest of the folds. It had pinholes around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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