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Auction History Result 6z251 LITTLE TOUGH GUY linen 1sh R40s Dead End Kids, little gangsters playing slug-ugly pranks! Date Sold 4/1/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1940s) Realart Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Little Tough Guy, the 1938 Harold Young teen juvenile delinquent crime thriller starring the Dead End Kids (including Robert Wilcox, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsley, Hal E. Chester [billed as "Hally Chester"], and David Gorcey), Marjorie Main, Helen Parrish, Jackie Sear, Peggy Stewart, and Helen MacKellar. Note that The Dead End Kids started at Warner Bros. in the classic "Dead End" movie in 1937 (which starred the original kids from the Broadway play that opened in 1935). In 1938, Warner Bros. brought them back with Humphrey Bogart in "Crime School". Apparently, they did not have faith in this being a lasting "franchise", because Universal made a deal to also make a movie with most of the original Dead End Kids (with the exception of Leo Gorcey, but with the addition of David Gorcey, his brother), and they called their movie "Little Tough Guy". This is especially odd because Universal advertised them as being "The Dead End Kids", even though it was from a different studio, and even though Warner Bros. was in the middle of making "Angels with Dirty Faces" with James Cagney! I imagine there is more to the story, and somebody can let us know that by contacting us! Finally, note that in this movie, Huntz Hall did not play his dimwitted comic relief character, but played a tough street kid! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered on the foldlines, with much paper loss in the top blank border and some paper loss in the bottom blank border. There was tape on the back of the entire bottom fold and it bled through to the front. There was paper loss in the top left, in Halop's hair. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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