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Auction History Result m028 KING KONG half-sheet movie poster R56 incredibly cool ape image! Date Sold 5/30/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1956 Re-release Vintage Theatrical Folded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) King Kong, the classic 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack Africa New York City giant ape fantasy romantic love triangle adventure horror thriller ("'The most awesome thriller of all time' the one and only"; "Not beast.. Not human.... Not devil.. But all three magnified! Raging.. Roaring.. Crushing.. Killing.."; "Strangest story ever conceived by man!"; "Out-leaping the maddest imaginings! Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!"; "See the living, fighting monsters of Creation's dawn rediscovered in the world today!"; "See the death-fight between giant ape and prehistoric dinosaur... the most amazing combat since the world began!"; "See the ape as big as a battleship wrecking New York!"; "Unique..! Thrilling! Startling!"; "From an idea conceived by Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper"; based on the story by Edgar Wallace, with incredible special effects by Willis O'Brien) starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong (as Carl Denham), Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, and Sam Hardy 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 I have never seen this poster before! I have sold a relatively huge amount of material from King Kong over the past 17 years (including both styles of three-sheet from the first release, as well as most other first release material), and a large amount of material from its many re-releases. The paper I have seen from this 1956 re-release has been somewhat disappointing, with a lack of color, and images taken from earlier releases. But this great half-sheet has a really cool full color image that is similar to (but not identical to) that of the original six-sheet, and with really cool vivid colors! Condition: very good to fine. The poster was folded with the usual horizontal and vertical folds. There is the tiniest of paper loss at the crossfold and some minor creasing along both foldlines. There are several pairs of tiny staple holes in each corner and a pair in the upper left is in the image background, but the others are in the blank borders. Other than the above truly minor defects, the poster is in quite nice condition! The poster is 100% completely unrestored, and no one ever put a single piece of tape on the front or the back of the poster. I can't imagine that there are many examples of this poster surviving, and I would imagine that most other surviving examples would surely either be in lesser condition, have been backed, or at least have had some degree of partial restoration (like tape on the back). I envy the person who gets to purchase this really cool poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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