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Auction History Result 4d0411 THING insert 1951 Howard Hawks' astounding movie, how did it get here from another world! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World!, the classic 1951 Christian Nyby science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("The Thing from another world!"; "How did it get here?"; "Natural or Supernatural?"; "Howard Hawks' Astounding Movie"; "Look out... it's The Thing from another world!"; produced by Howard Hawks; based on the story by John W. Campbell, best known for being the editor of Astounding Science Fiction!) starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Dewey Martin, Paul Frees, John Dierkes, Eduard Franz, James Arness (in the title role as The Thing From Another World!), William Self, and Billy Curtis (as the miniature "Thing" in the final sequence when the monster appears to shrink). Note that this movie had a very unusual poster campaign, where the letters of the title were made to look like body parts ("blood and guts"!), with wires coming off of the letters. Almost all the posters had this basic design. The pressbook calls all of them "teaser" posters and says "This display material was designed for an advance teaser campaign, as well as for general use". So obviously, they intentionally wanted to have the posters not reveal much about the movie, as a way to get people interested and get them into the theater. 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 is a very desirable poster from this classic movie, especially because many of the posters solely have the unusual title treatment, without images of the stars. This poster has a wonderful montage of images that do not appear on the other posters, except for the half-sheets. That causes the inserts and half-sheets to sell for a considerable amount of money! Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. The poster has some wear along the three horizontal folds, and someone backed those folds and the edges their blank borders with tape and then touched up some of the darker-colored areas along a few small portions of the upper horizontal fold with marker (see our image). It has some surface paper loss in the ends of the folds and in the corners from rough removal of tape. Despite these defects the poster displays pretty well from a reasonable viewing distance, and after proper restoration and paperbacking the poster will look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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