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Auction History Result M055 THIS GUN FOR HIRE linen three-sheet movie poster '42 Alan Ladd, V. Lake Date Sold 4/27/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) This Gun For Hire, the classic 1942 Frank Tuttle spy espionage counterfeiting murder crime film noir ("Killer without a conscience! Lover without a heart?"; "Based on the novel by Graham Greene") starring Veronica Lake (as a magician who does card tricks!), Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Mikhail Rasumny, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Emmett Vogan, and Victor Kilian. Note that Alan Ladd was fourth billed in this movie (he had been in movies for several years, including in Citizen Kane, but he had mostly tiny roles), but this movie made him a major star. It is incredibly fortunate that the U.S. poster artist chose to feature only fourth-billed Ladd and first-billed Lake on the one-sheet, making it one of the most desirable U.S. posters! 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: This three-sheet was printed in 2 sections and is linenbacked. Condition: good. This poster was linenbacked, but it was NOT well restored. You can see signs of the restoration from a distance. This is a poster that would greatly benefit from additional professional restoration. 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. The poster had water stains down the top center that have left brown stains (you should be able to clearly see them on the image). There are also numerous pinholes in each corner and paper loss down the right vertical fold (more so in the middle portion of that foldline). There were many small tears, creases, and smudges along several of the foldlines. The person linenbacked the poster pretty much just linenbacked it "as is", and did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. If I owned the poster, I would surely re-back it. A talented restorer could remove this poster from the linen and re-back it and fix its many defects, after which it would look wonderful (and while it would require a fair amount of restoration, it would NOT have lots of paint all over it). Learn More about condition grades 
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