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Auction History Result 3p0085 ROPE pressbook 1948 Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Dall, Granger, with rare added cover! Date Sold 1/17/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 38 pages) (Learn More) Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (released outside the U.S. as "The Rope"), the classic 1948 Alfred Hitchcock New York City crime murder thriller ("Nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE"; "It begins with a shriek, It ends with a shot! From beginning to end nothing ever held you like Alfred Hitchcock's Rope"; "Screen play by Arthur Laurents"; "From the play by Patrick Hamilton"; loosely based on the Leopold/Loeb child murder trial; this movie had a gimmick in that the entire movie took place in what appears to be one extremely long "take"; to me, it just made it seem like watching a stage play, and took away what differentiates a movie from a stage play!) starring James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke (billed as "Sir Cedric Hardwicke"), Constance Collier, Joan Chandler, (in her second movie role; one of only three movies she did in her entire career!) Douglas Dick, Dick Hogan, and Edith Evanson. Note that this was Hitchcock's first color film. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned three examples of this pressbook (and the last two also had the extra outer cover). The extra outer cover is printed on a brown paper stock like what you would make paper bags out of, and it is attached to the outside of the regular pressbook, and it is slightly larger, so it goes over the edges of the regular covers! We don't know if this was on all pressbooks, or perhaps it was only on ones for major theaters. In any event, it is a cool addition to the pressbook! Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The "regular" pressbook is complete and uncut and in pretty nice condition. The rare added cover (see above) has tears and areas of paper loss around the edges and has darkened and is separated at the spine, but it is remarkable that it survived at all! Learn More about condition grades 
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