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Auction History Result 7m0325 GHOST SHIP linen 1sh 1943 c/u of Captain Richard Dix in porthole, produced by Val Lewton! Date Sold 10/27/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Ghost Ship, the 1943 Mark Robson high seas murder mystery horror thriller ("Story by Leo Mittler"; produced by Val Lewton) starring Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard, Edmund Glover, Skelton Knaggs (who played a mute but his character narrates the film with an internal voice-over monologue), Lawrence Tierney (uncredited in his third movie role!), and Dewey Robinson. Note that shortly after its theatrical release, producer Val Lewton was sued for plagiarism by a man who said he had sent a script with the same plot to Lewton. Lewton could have settled out of court, but he claimed he never even opened the script, and he decided to fight the case. That proved to be a massive error, because the court ruled against Lewton and The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from circulation, and was unavailable for viewing for the next 50 years, and when it was finally made available, it was ruled to be public domain, so Lewton never received any financial reward from it. 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 poster has an NSS number of "49/398" in the lower right corner. Because there are few examples of posters from other movies of this time period where the original copyright was left, but the NSS number was updated when the movie was re-released, people long assumed that this poster had the same situation, and that it was a 1949 re-release. But NO ONE has ever seen a "Ghost Ship" one-sheet with a 1943 NSS number, and therefore the consensus opinion of all experts is that the 1949 NSS number is a misprint! THEREFORE, THE POSTER WE ARE SELLING SEEMS TO SURELY BE AN ORIGINAL FIRST RELEASE 1943 GHOST SHIP, NOT a re-release. Please do not bid on this poster thinking it is a 1949 re-release, as longtime dealers and collectors believe it to be a 1943 first release one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had tears and paper loss in the top center, affecting much of the second "R" of "RICHARD". It had tears and tiny paper loss on parts of the rest of the folds, with a diagonal tear in the right of the top that extends into the "t" of "Ghost". It had extra folds both horizontally and vertically. It had some tears and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Also, the paper loss around the edges included small paper loss in the right of the bottom, and when the restorer tried to restore the litho number, they got one digit wrong. More significantly, they also changed the NSS number from "49/398" to "43/398", thus trying to correct the odd error that was made on this poster in 1943! Learn More about condition grades 
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