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HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL ('59) HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL ('59) Aust 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5a0302 HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL linen Aust 1sh 1959 censored Vincent Price & skeleton, rare & different! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) House on Haunted Hill (some stills identify the movie as "House of Haunted Hill" but a collector tells us that he saw the film on the opening weekend and it was titled "House on Haunted Hill"), the 1959 William Castle haunted house horror thriller ("First film with the amazing new wonder Emergo [specially installed for this engagement] The thrills fly right into the audience!"; "The 13 greatest shocks of all time! Consult your doctor! Bring your seat belts! See it with someone with warm hands!") starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Julie Mitchum, and Leona Anderson. Note that the "gimmick" for this movie (Emergo) described above consisted of an actual fake skeleton that was pulled out from above the screen on a wire and dragged across the audience when the skeleton on the movie comes out of its box, and then it is reeled back in across the audience, making two trips. This required special equipment, and apparently many theaters chose not to install it, because the pressbook has special ads for it only for theaters that have the Emergo equipment. We have read that some of the theaters that DID install the equipment had it uninstalled, once teen boys learned of it, because they would come to the showings with slingshots and damage the skeleton with rocks or BBs! 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 we had only previously auctioned one example of this Australian one-sheet, and that example had been laminated, and it still sold for $975! Now we have finally been consigned a second example, and this one is NOT laminated, which is a big plus! Note that the Australian poster designer used an image extremely similar to that on the U.S. posters (except that they changed the background color to a cool "blood red"), but due to the strict Australian censorship at this time, the image of the hung girl being held by a rope by the skeleton has been deleted, which makes no sense at all visually, and also, in the U.S. posters, Price is holding a severed head, but here he is just making a fist! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and a few tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds, with some scuffs in the background to the left of Price's credit at bottom. It had some small tears, creases, and tiny paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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