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Auction History Result 9m0255 KISS OF DEATH linen Aust 1sh 1948 intentional black & white classic film noir image, rare! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1948 (from the first release of this movie in Australia) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Kiss of Death, the classic 1947 Henry Hathaway crime film noir ("20th Century-Fox Sensation!"; "It will mark you for life as it marked him for... Betrayal!"; "Based on a Story by Eleazer Lipsky"; "Screen Play by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer") starring Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray (billed as "Introducing Coleen Gray"), Richard Widmark (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as the psychopathic killer, Tommy Udo, who, in one of the cinema's most memorable scenes, laughs as he pushes a woman in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs!), Patricia Morison (while she was billed on the poster and listed in the credits, her scenes were cut from the film for being too shocking), Taylor Holmes, Robert Keith, Howard Smith, and Karl Malden (in his third credited movie role!). Note that when this movie was first released, 20th Century-Fox knew they had a very "special" movie, and they created a one-sheet that was intentionally black and white, with no white borders, which is very striking. They did NOT realize that Richard Widmark would become a star off of his portrayal of a psychopath, so he was not pictured on the one-sheet or the other advertising, and even when they re-released the movie in 1953, they simply reused the image from the 1947 one-sheet (oddly, adding color), and still, Widmark was not pictured. 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 never before auctioned this Australian one-sheet! Also note that this is one of the best remembered one-sheet images of the 1940s! 20th Century Fox chose to intentionally use a solely black & white image, which perfectly conveys the feel of this downbeat film noir! Before we were consigned this poster, we only knew that 20th Century-Fox had done this with the U.S. one-sheet, but now we know that they did it with the Australian one-sheet as well. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the middle crossfold and a smalller area of paper loss below that, both in the top left of the "A". It had a second horizontal fold just above the regular bottom one, with small tears and small areas of paper loss scattered along that fold. It had pinholes in the corners. 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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