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Auction History Result 9m0768 STRANGE CARGO linen style D 1sh 1940 romantic art of Clark Gable & Joan Crawford, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style D One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Strange Cargo, the 1940 Frank Borzage South America Devil's Island escaped convict romantic crime melodrama ("Flight of the damned -- as a sin ship rides the waves!"; "Based on the book 'Not Too Narrow Not Too Deep' by Richard Sale"; about a prisoner on Devil's Island who tries to escape, but is turned in by a pretty saloon girl, and he tries to escape a second time with a group of men by boat, and one of them is a strange Christ-like figure who seems to know what is going to happen before it does) starring Clark Gable ("Clark Gable's Greatest Adventure!"), Joan Crawford ("Joan Crawford's Boldest Romance!"), Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, and Charles Judels. Note that this movie was partially filmed in the studio, and partially "on location", but Pismo Beach, California stood in for Devil's Island! 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 we have only previously auctioned two examples of this style D one-sheet (and one example of the style C one-sheet), and only one in the last 25 years, which sold for $1,000 five years ago! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny creases, smudges, and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds, with some pinholes and smudges around the edges and in the bottom right corner, in the white area below the title. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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