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Auction History Result #7512 TEXAS TO TOKYO 1/2sh '43 Richard Gwynne Date Sold 1/6/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Texas to Tokyo (also released as "We've Never Been Licked"), the 1943 John Rawlins World War II (WWII) college military school melodrama ("Walter Wanger's Spectacular Triumph"; "Inspired by the Fighting Sons of Texas A. & M."; the movie follows young men at Texas A & M military school, who are about to go overseas; there is a subplot involving Japanese spies, and helping them is William Frawley of "I Love Lucy" fame, or is he a double agent?) starring Richard Quine, Anne Gwynne, Noah Beery Jr., Martha O'Driscoll, Harry Davenport, William Frawley, Edgar Barrier, Robert Mitchum (billed as "Bob Mitchum"), Mantan Moreland, and Richard Gunn. Note that Robert Mitchum had gotten married in 1940, and quickly had a son the following year. He broke into the movies and had minor parts in Hopalong Cassidy movies. He was in the military for less than a year, but was given an exemption because of having a wife and son. The same year he appeared in this movie, he had his second child! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. light rippling throughout the poster from exposure to moisture. Note that this poster has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (once horizontally and once vertically) right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! poster has darkened slightly with age; minor creases, smudges, and scuffs throughout the poster (more so around the edges); 1 1/2" tear in the lower right edge as well as a few smaller tears around the edges of the poster (some repaired with tape from the back); areas of surface paper loss along the top blank border Learn More about condition grades 
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