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Auction History Result 4z227 KEY British quad '58 Carol Reed, William Holden had the life expectancy of a match... Date Sold 5/5/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded British Quad Movie Poster (BQ; Quad Crown; measures approximately 30" x 40") (Learn More) The Key, the 1958 Carol Reed English/U.S. World War II (WWII) Navy Naval military romantic melodrama ("...with this key I thee wed..."; "Now his world had shivered down to the war... the woman... and the key..."; "The door opened into a haven from hell... And the girl came with the key."; "He had the life expectancy of a match..."; "He was the skipper of an unarmed seagoing tug assigned to bring damaged ships back through the U-Boat-swarming waters of The Western Approaches to Hell. His was the War at its deadliest... Each day he prepared himself to die... But at night he took the key and locked death and danger out... Nightly he took Stella in his arms and locked out the memory of the men who had found in her the same haven in Hell before him... He even locked out the shadow of the man who was waiting for 'THE KEY'"; "Based on the novel 'Stella' by Jan De Hartog"; "Written for the screen and produced by Carl Foreman"; a VERY unusual movie about British tugboat captains in World War II; one of them suspects he is about to die in battle, and he gives another captain a key to his apartment, and when the man dies and his friend goes to the apartment, he discovers a beautiful woman living there, who he has also "inherited"; he then passes on the apartment and the woman to two more captains!) starring William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Kieron Moore, Bernard Lee, Bryan Forbes, Beatrix Lehmann, Noel Purcell, and Oscar Homolka. This is a completely forgotten movie from legendary director Carol Reed, and it deserves to be rediscovered! 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 is a rare "country of origin" poster for this English movie! Note that this British quad was folded vertically three times and horizontally three times (this being folded one time more than is sometimes done, but it is quite common with British quads, especially older ones). Because of this, this quad can be sent in one of our standard size flat packages (but if it is purchased together with quads that have not been folded in the same way, then it will of course have to be sent in one of our tubes if the other quads are unfolded, or, if it is purchased with other quads that are only folded once horizontally than it can either be sent in an oversized flat package, OR in a tube). But if this quad is purchased by itself (or solely with other quads that have been folded the same way), then the shipping can be lower, because it then fits in a standard package. But please realize that because this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time it is likely that the creases have diminished and therefore re-folding the poster will likely bring some of those creases back, but we leave that decision as to whether or not to re-fold the poster up to the individual buyer of this item. UNLESS THE BUYER TELLS US OTHERWISE, THIS QUAD WILL BE SENT ROLLED IN A TUBE. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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