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Auction History Result 8c0280 RIVER OF NO RETURN/KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES linen British quad 1950s Marilyn Monroe! Date Sold 4/1/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked British Quad Poster (BQ; Quad Crown; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) the 1950s double-bill release of River of No Return, the 1954 Otto Preminger romantic love triangle adventure musical melodrama ("Monroe meets Mitchum in the most savage wilderness of all the Americas!"; "You ride the churning rapids of Devil's Teeth! You fight your way out of Thunder Gorge and Cree ambush! You cross the granite-walled Rockies! You're swept up by the swirling 'white waters' of the Maligne, Bow and Snake Indian Rivers... As Monroe and Mitchum meet, fight and love!"; "Only yesterday I was the honky-tonk dancer, the gambler's doll."; "He was the frontier-blazer, a man used to taking what he wanted..."; "Here, we sensed our over-powering loneliness."; "In the wonder of High-Fidelity Directional-Stereophonic Sound"; "Engulfs you in a flood of excitement!"; "And she can sing too!"; "From a story by Louis Lantz"; about a saloon singer and her gambler husband, who are rafting in Canada to register a mining claim; they are rescued by a farmer and his young son, and the cowardly gambler deserts his wife, and she, the farmer, and the son have to fend off an Indian attack) starring Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye, and Douglas Spencer. Note that Marilyn Monroe was injured during the violent river rafting scene, and she walked on crutches through the rest of the filming!AND King of the Khyber Rifles, the 1954 Henry King British-in-India war romantic adventure epic ("You see it without glasses in CinemaScope"; "The Mighty Canvas of India Unfolds in CinemaScope"; "From a Story by Harry Kleiner Based upon the Novel by Talbot Mundy") starring Tyrone Power Jr. (in the title role as Captain Alan King), Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe, Richard Stapley, Murray Matheson, Frank de Kova, Argentina Brunetti, and Sujata 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: good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some creases, smudges, and darkening on parts of the folds. It had pinholes and creases around the edges. It had writing on the back that bled through to the front to the left and below the "R" of "Rifles" in the title. Overall, the poster was in 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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