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Auction History Result d328 CONSPIRATOR linen one-sheet movie poster '49 Robert & Elizabeth Taylor Date Sold 8/16/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (27" x 41") (Learn More) Conspirator, the 1949 Victor Saville English London Cold War romantic spy espionage crime thriller ("The man she loved was a traitor, sworn to kill her!"; "Based on the Novel by Humphrey Slater"; about a beautiful young woman who marries a much older British Army officer who turns out to be a Russian spy) starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, and Marjorie Fielding. Note that the plot of this movie revolves around 17 year-old Elizabeth Taylor falling in love with 38 year-old Robert Taylor, which seems pretty creepy now (and may well have been pretty creepy then!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. This poster was linenbacked, but it was either NOT linenbacked by a very talented restorer, OR it was linenbacked many years ago, and has received rough handling over the years, OR it had fairly significant defects that were not restored at all. If it was restored, you can clearly see signs of the restoration even from a distance. This is a poster that would surely benefit from additional professional restoration. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster had a large C-shaped tear right near the middle. It begins in the edge of Robert Taylor's cheek in the black background, runs down through Liz Taylor's head and runs down through her hair and cheek, exiting her face at the bottom of her ear and turning sideways into the black background. There was also a diagonal tear that runs from the edge of Liz Taylor's hair down through the tagline to the right of her shoulder. There were many small tears on the foldlines and the borders were tattered. The poster was fairly well backed (considering all the defects the poster had, the restorer did a pretty nice job), but you can see some signs of the tear running through Liz Taylor's head (fortunately it is not in her face)! Learn More about condition grades 
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