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Auction History Result 4x003 HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 1/2sh R50 Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. & all-star monster cast! Date Sold 11/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1950 Realart Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) House of Frankenstein, the 1944 Erle C. Kenton Universal monster horror thriller ("All together...!"; "Frankenstein's Monster! The Wolf Man! Dracula! The Hunchback! The Mad Doctor!"; "Based on a Story by Curt Siodmak"; the sixth Universal Frankenstein movie, and this was the first "all-star" movie, with all of its best monsters brought together in a single movie!) starring Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. (as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolfman), John Carradine (as Dracula), J. Carroll Naish (as Daniel, the hunchback), Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe, Elena Verdugo, Lionel Atwill (Atwill must have had a terrible agent that he ended up behind Peter Coe, and Elena Verdugo in the billing!), Michael Mark, Frank Reicher, Charles Wagenheim, William Edmunds, Belle Mitchell, Sig Ruman, and Glenn Strange (as "Frankenstein's monster"). At least Atwill did better than poor Glenn Strange, who played the Frankenstein monster, and didn't even receive billing! Also, is it just me, or is it the height of insensitivity that a "hunchback" was treated as a monster on a par with Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man? Also, why in the world did Glenn Strange not get billing on the posters? NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster must have been displayed in sunlight, because it is severely faded, primarily the reds in the poster, which are primarily in the words of the title and the names of the monsters down the right. There were slight bits of red in the rest of the poster, which were used to slightly darken some of the other colors, but only slightly. Prior to fading, the poster had paper loss at the crossfold and separation, tiny tears, and small paper loss on parts of the foldlines. There were tears and tiny paper loss around the edges of the poster and some smudges and scuffs scattered in the image. But in spite of the defects the poster had and the fading described above, the poster still displays pretty well, because it did not fade in a way that hurts its appearance drastically. I would think some people would not even be aware of the fading if it were not pointed out to them! But please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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