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6h0364 THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT linen French 31x47 R1964 art of Bogart, Sheridan & Raft, ultra rare!

Date Sold 4/14/2024
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A 1964 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked French Large Movie Poster (31x47; measures 30 1/2" x 47" [77 x 119 cm]) (Learn More)

They Drive By Night (released in England as "The Road to Frisco"), the 1940 Raoul Walsh trucker romantic love triangle action melodrama ("No picture in 1940 will have bigger thrills!"; "From a Novel by A.I. Bezzerides"; about truckers and their love lives; it stole part of its plot from "Bordertown"!) starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Hale Sr., Gale Page, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, Charles Halton, Charles C. Wilson, George Tobias, and Henry O'Neill. Note that movies rarely have top stars in all four lead roles (other than MGM movies of the 1930s and early 1940s, because they had so many such stars that they could afford to do this), but this movie is kind of a rare exception. We say "kind of" because Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino were not yet top stars when they made this movie, but the very next movie they made was "High Sierra", which did help elevate both of them to greater stardom!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this 1964 re-release French poster! Also note that there is a tiny "10/64 Depot legal 64/4" with "27926" by that at the bottom of the poster. This means that this poster is from the 1964 re-release, and that this is the fourth time the poster was printed.

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had fine surface paper loss on parts of some foldlines (typical of high-gloss posters of this period). Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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