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Auction History Result 7k212 SMASHING THE VICE TRUST linen 1sh 1937 story of New York's infamous Lucky Luciano, great art! Date Sold 6/15/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Smashing the Vice Trust, the 1937 Melville Shyer exploitation melodrama (apparently, a pseudo-documentary expose of the vice business, although it is likely the viewers of this movie had less than noble interests in watching it!) starring Willy Castello, Veola Vonn, Augusta Anderson, John Belmont, and Selmer Jackson. Note that this movie was re-edited by director Shyer into "Confessions of a Vice Baron" in 1943. Melville Shyer spent many years in Hollywood working as an assistant director for 143 mostly low-budget movies between 1930 and 1962, and in the 1930s and 1940s, he directed seven low-budget exploitation movies like this one. His son, Charles Shyer, has had major success as a Hollywood director, directing such movies as The Parent Trap, Father of the Bride, and Baby Boom! If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the bottom two crossfolds and a few tiny bits of paper loss on small parts of some folds, with a few small tears in the borders and paper loss in the lower right blank border. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed onto a thin linen with no excess, and after it was backed, it acquired small tears in the bottom blank border, and the poster is separating from the linen in that area (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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