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Auction History Result 9f020 BIG HEAT linen 1sh '53 great pulp art of Glenn Ford & sexy Gloria Grahame, Fritz Lang noir! Date Sold 8/16/2016 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) The Big Heat, the classic 1953 Fritz Lang crime film noir ("'Somebody's going to pay... Because he forgot to kill me...'"; "A hard cop and a soft dame... in a brass-knuckle thriller!"; "From the shock-packed Saturday Evening Post serial!"; "Vice.. dice ... and corruption!"; "Based upon the Saturday Evening Post serial by William P. McGivern"; this is the classic film noir with Glenn Ford as the tough cop hot on the trail of super-vicious hoodlum Lee Marvin; the movie has the memorable, and at that time ground-breaking and shocking, scene of Marvin throwing a pot of boiling hot coffee in the face of Grahame) starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, Adam Williams, and Edith Evanson 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: fair to good. The poster had paper loss at the crossfolds and tears and small areas of paper loss down the vertical fold and across the bottom two horizontal folds, with a lesser amount of wear on the top horizontal fold. It had pinholes, tears, and paper loss around the edges. It had paper loss below the middle crossfold that affected the area above Grahame's wrist. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but the restorer apparently did not have an example of the poster to work from, and instead of restoring the area at the center of the poster correctly (where Ford's hand is wrapped around Grahame's wrist, but part of her arm is invisible), the restorer made it look as though Ford's finger is at the top of her wrist, and he added the missing portion of her arm (perhaps the restorer did this intentionally to "improve" on the image). In any event, please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept this significant change to the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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