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Auction History Result 7w161 LONG WAIT linen 1sh '54 Mickey Spillane, art of Anthony Quinn holding sexy girl with gun! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Mickey Spillane's The Long Wait, the 1954 Victor Saville romantic crime thriller ("'Three thrill-hungry dames played me for a sucker... Now it's my turn!'"; "It raps you with gun-butt fury... ...rocks you with hot-blooded excitement!"; "Mickey Spillane goes all the way... In the hottest story that ever belted the screen!"; "A new high in Spillane savagery!"; "Mickey Spillane's hottest story blasts the screen!"; "Carol... 'All blond - all innocence... a real doll who walks, talks and even says 'murder'!'"; "A scream... The sound of ripping silk... A shot!.. ...and Spillane hurls you on a murder merry-go-round of strong-armed thugs and warm-armed blondes... -In his hottest story of all!"; based on the novel by Mickey Spillane) starring Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay, Shawn Smith, and Dolores Donlon. Note that Mickey Spillane was a department store salesman in 1940 when he discovered he could sell stories for comic books, and he quickly wrote for all the major companies. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot. After the war, he wrote "I, the Jury" in 19 days, and it was published in 1947, and it sold 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Its hero, Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled private eye, would appear in many more novels. Spillane would write for the movies, and he even played Mike Hammer in "The Girl Hunters" in 1963! 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. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had pinholes, tears, and smudges around the edges. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I can imagine some collectors displaying this poster just as it is, and accepting the defects and signs of restoration, although other collectors would only display it if it had additional restoration. Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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