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Auction History Result 4j086 SABOTEUR Belgian '46 Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Cummings & Priscilla Lane, different art! Date Sold 12/8/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1946 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14 1/4" x 19 1/4" [36 x 49 cm]) (Learn More) Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (released in other English-speaking countries as "The Man Behind Your Back"), the 1942 Alfred Hitchcock World War II (WWII) spy espionage crime suspense thriller ("You'd like to say - It Can't Happen Here! ...but every jolting scene is True!!"; "3000 miles of terror!"; "Secret lookouts! Rats... in evening dress! Aircraft plant destroyed! A battleship blasted!"; about a factory worker who is falsely accused of sabotaging his factory and causing the death of a co-worker, but actually, he is just being set up by a group of spies; the man flees, trying to clear himself, while he is pursued by both the spies and police; he ends up thrown together with pretty Priscilla Lane, who at first thinks he is guilty, but comes to believe in his innocence) starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings (Bob Cummings), Norman Lloyd (in the title role), Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Peterson, Clem Bevans, Jean Trent, Will Wright, Tony Randall (uncredited and in his first role), Billy Curtis, Mary Curtis (Billy and Mary were little people, as well as husband and wife, in a circus sequence in this movie). Note that Hitchcock "borrowed" many of the plot elements of his classic British movie "The 39 Steps", updating the plot to a World War II setting. Also, the real saboteurs were intended to be Nazis in the script but the movie never mentions this. 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 this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 14 1/4" x 19 1/4" [36 x 49 cm]. Also note that this poster has been paperbacked. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster had been trimmed, and it had creases, scuffs, and tiny paper loss on the foldlines, with many creases, scuffs, and tiny areas of paper loss scattered in the bottom half of the poster, including many in Lane's face and some in the bottom right of Cummings' face. There were tears and areas of paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to paperbacking. Given its many defects, the poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects, so please read our description above and look at our super-sized image before placing a bid on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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