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Auction History Result

6f1017 KILLERS /SLEEPING CITY 1sh 1956 film noir double-bill, Burt Lancaster, sexy Ava Gardner, Richard Conte

Date Sold 4/9/2024
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An Original Vintage Folded One-Sheet Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

the 1956 double-bill release of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, the 1946 Robert Siodmak (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award) crime film noir ("From the story by Ernest Hemingway"; "Produced by Mark Hellinger"; "It's told the untamed Hemingway way!"; "Tense! Taut! Terrific!"; the screenwriter, Anthony Veiller, came up with a "prequel" to the classic short story, and he devised a very interesting and very believable back-story that would explain the actions of the characters in Hemingway's story) starring Burt Lancaster (in his first screen role; billed as "introducing Burt Lancaster"), Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Charles D. Brown and William Conrad (best remembered for his starring roles in TV's "Cannon", and "Jake and the Fat Man"; also the voice of Marshall Matt Dillon on radio's "Gunsmoke") AND The Sleeping City, the 1950 George Sherman New York City medical doctor hospital undercover crime film noir ("Excitement Rips the Night!"; "When THE NAKED CITY dims her lights ...all the passions of the night awake!") starring Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Alex Nicol (billed as "introducing Alex Nicol"), Richard Taber, John Alexander, and Peggy Dow
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Condition: good to very good. The poster has general fold and border wear and a few minor edge defects. It is otherwise in pretty nice condition and after a simple linenbacking the poster will look great!
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