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Auction History Result 9m0030 DAWN PATROL linen 3sh 1938 great different art of WWI pilot Errol Flynn & planes, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) The Dawn Patrol, the 1938 Edmund Goulding World War I (WWI) airplane pilot aviation thriller ("From an original story by John Monks Saunders"; about British pilots in World War I flying primitive airplanes that crash with regularity, and one of the pilots, played by Flynn, criticizes the Major, played by Rathbone, for sending men to their death, but then Rathbone is promoted, and Flynn is faced with the same difficult decisions, and he orders his best friend's younger brother on a mission that kills him, which puts a massive rift between him and his best friend) starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald, James Stephenson, Stuart Hall, Carl Esmond, and Morton Lowry. Note that this movie bears many similarities to "Twelve O'Clock High", where pilots faced the same difficulties in World War II. 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 first release large posters from this movie are extremely rare. We have never before auctioned a first release three-sheet from this movie before we were consigned this poster, and we have also never auctioned a six-sheet! Of course, three-sheets and six-sheets from ANY classic 1930s movies (not just this one) are far more rare than one-sheets, and this is a rare opportunity to display a three-sheet from a great movie on your wall! Amazingly, we are also auctioning a first release 24-sheet from this movie in a separate auction. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on many parts of some folds, with larger paper loss in the crossfold that fell to the right of Flynn's eye, between the eye and the helmet. It also had some tack holes and smudges around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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