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This is an eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this mean?  Auction History Result Lot #: JW 091 JOHN WAYNE linen stock 1sh '39 full-length image of The Duke on rearing horse, Desert Trail  Date Sold 7/10/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in John Wayne Movie Posters at Auction CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original 1930s Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Stock One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) one of four John Wayne stock posters used by theaters to advertise re-released (and in some countries, the first release) John Wayne cowboy western movies that he made for Lone Star Pictures in 1933 and 1934. The first of these was made by Lone Star Pictures itself in 1934, and has an artwork image of a cowboy on a horse that does not resemble John Wayne. The second of these was made in 1939 when John Wayne achieved major stardom with Stagecoach, and distributors rushed to re-release his many 1930s B-westerns to theaters, and this poster shows a recognizable John Wayne on a rearing horse with an inset image in the top right corner. There are two other Lone Star stock John Wayne posters that we believe date to the mid 1940s, when he had even greater success with his World War II movies, and one has him standing full-length by a tree, and the other has a closer image of him along with Gabby Hayes. 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 is extremely similar to that of "Lawless Frontier" (which had been released five months earlier). It seems unlikely that these posters would be "stock posters", since it does not appear that the titles were "overprinted" into the title area, as is normally done with stock posters. Given that the two posters have a somewhat different background color, we think it is more likely that the studio did not have fresh artwork for this movie, and so was forced to reuse an earlier art, and chose the art from "Lawless Frontier", changing the title and background color. It is interesting to note that they either forgot or did not bother to change the director's credit, and so this movie is incorrectly credited as being directed by R. N. Bradbury, when actually it was directed by Lewis D. Collins! Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and the restorer did a good job, but you can see signs of the restoration from inches away (since most people look at posters framed on a wall from at least a few feet away, we don't feel this is a defect, but we feel it should be noted). See below for this poster's pre-restoration condition (we are the only major auction company we know of that shares this information with our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). good. There were many pinholes, tears, creases, and small areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster as well as many small tears and creases down the vertical foldline, and to a lesser extent on the horizontal foldlines. There was paper loss at each crossfold. This poster is an ideal candidate for re-linenbacking! If the poster was re-backed, the restorer can surely make the poster's defects much less noticeable (they really are not all that distracting even now), and the poster will look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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