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Auction History Result m190 CULT OF THE COBRA three-sheet movie poster '55 Faith Domergue, horror! Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Cult of the Cobra, the 1955 Francis D. Lyon Universal horror fantasy suspense thriller ("Can a woman's beauty be changed to a thing of terror?"; "Out of the Mystic East terror strikes at the heart of a city!"; "From sinister shadows east of Suez to black alleys of the big city... The curse of the serpent follows a woman's beauty!"; about American G.I.s in an unnamed Asian country who accidentally break in on a religious cult ceremony, and the cult members want to kill them for doing so, and one of the men falls in love with a beautiful woman who unfortunately can change into a snake, and one by one, the men are dying from snakebites!) starring Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes, William Reynolds, Jack Kelly, Myrna Hansen, and David Janssen 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 the collector who owned this three-sheet (and five others that we are selling as separate items this week on eBay) taped or glued the two sections of the poster together, and put tape on several of the seams (for reinforcement) and then rolled the poster and stored it in a tube. He would take one of the posters and display it on his wall, and then occasionally take that one down, replace it in the tube, and display a different one (this method of displaying the posters was certainly inexpensive, and saved him the cost of a frame!). The downside to this is that the posters can no longer be folded, and in some cases the tape (or glue) has bled through to the front to some degree. For each of these six posters, we have described the amount of tape (or glue) on the reverse, and the effect it has had on the front. In all six cases, it would be an easy matter for any talented restorer to remove the tape (and/or glue) from the back and mount the poster on linen. After proper linenbacking and restoration of any defects, the poster would look wonderful! But please do not bid on this poster (or the other five similar three-sheets) unless you have read the above and understand it. Of course, we will need to send this poster in a tube, as it cannot be folded. Condition: very good. The two sections of the poster were taped together, first with a line of clear tape across the back of the poster, then a line of clear tape across the front of the poster, and finally with wide yellow masking tape over the back seam. Many of the crossfolds have plastic tape on the reverse, and if there was tiny paper loss, the collector put a small piece of white paper over the paper loss before putting the tape on it, so that the white paper shows from the front, and not the tape. Some of the pieces of tape on the back have yellowed and have slightly bled through to the back. The clear tape across the seam of the front of the poster running through the top of the letters of the title has darkened somewhat, and the clear tape running through the middle of the letters from the back has bled through somewhat. Any talented restorer could surely remove the tape from the back (and the single line of tape on the front of the poster running through the bottom of the title) and after linenbacking and restoration, the poster would look great, but it would surely require some paint restoration across the title area, but little anywhere else. Learn More about condition grades 
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