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Auction History Result 1w056 MOBY DICK linen 3sh '56 John Huston, great art of Gregory Peck & the giant whale! Date Sold 9/18/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Moby Dick, the 1956 John Huston English/U.S. seafaring adventure thriller ("The Man- The Whale- The Vengeance- The Mightiest Adventure Ever Seen!"; "Never such a sight! Never such a might!"; "Captain Ahab The White Whale nearly destroyed him - and no one would rest till the White Whale was dead!"; "Ishmael Handsome, romantic - the look of a poet, the courage of a giant!"; "Starbuck He bet his fears and his faith against the fury of Captain Ahab!"; "Queequeg Cannibal-turned-harpooner - his fierce strength as strange as his mystic tattoo!"; "Father Mapple The blood-and-thunder preacher who roared his warnings to the waiting women!"; "Tashtego The silent Indian --- when hunting buffalo became too tame, he went after Moby Dick!"; "In all the world - in all the seas - in all adventure there is no might like the might of Moby Dick"; "Filmed with a spectacular new development in color by Technicolor"; "From the famed novel by Herman Melville"; "Screen Play by Ray Bradbury & John Huston") starring Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab), Richard Basehart (as Ishmael), Leo Genn, Orson Welles (in an impressive cameo role, "as 'Father Mapple'"), Friedreich Ledebur (as Queeqeg), and Harry Andrews NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had many creases, scuffs, and areas of fine surface paper loss on parts of many foldlines, with some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds and some small tears on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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