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Auction History Result 8a232 TAXI DRIVER 1sh '76 Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, like int'l, but with ratings, rare! Date Sold 6/14/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Taxi Driver, the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese New York City descent-into-schizophrenia mental illness crime murder melodrama ("On every street in every city in this country there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."; "He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive."; "Written by Paul Schrader"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Robert De Niro (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Travis Bickle), Jodie Foster (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Albert Brooks ("as Tom"; in his first movie role!), Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle ("as 'Wizard'"), Cybill Shepherd ("as 'Betsy'"), Martin Scorsese, Joe Spinell, and Richard Higgs 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 we have only twice before auctioned this poster! What is special about it? It looks like the regular international one-sheet, which has a two-color image of De Niro walking in Times Square, but all the other examples of this poster do NOT have a rating, but this one (and the one we auctioned in 2006) do have ratings! At that time, we had no idea what this meant, but now, because this poster comes to us from a man who worked at Hollywood studios for decades, we strongly suspect that it was a poster that was printed but never actually distributed to theaters. Perhaps it was going to be an alternate U.S. style, and they decided against it, or perhaps this was the first U.S. poster, and then they created the full-color one after it, and this one was "replaced" by that. There is a very similar situation to this with the Star Wars "style C" poster (almost all known examples have no ratings, but a few printer's test posters do have ratings). For whatever reason, the new owner of this poster will certainly have a real rarity. Note that this is the second of two examples of this poster we were consigned last year, by a man who worked for the studios at that time this movie was released. We auctioned the first of the two in December of 2014, and it sold for $464. This is the second and last of these posters we have, and it might well be many years before we have another, if ever! If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. The poster has a few creases scattered near the vertical fold and a diagonal crease in the bottom left corner. Otherwise, it is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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