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Auction History Result 7d260 EDGE OF HELL Spanish/U.S. 1sh '56 Hugo Haas comforts half-dressed sexy bad girl Francesca de Scaffa Date Sold 9/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (SpanUS 1sh; printed in Spanish in the U.S. for Spanish speaking audiences; 27" x 41") (Learn More) Edge of Hell, the 1956 Hugo Haas bad girl crime film noir ("A half-world of dark alleys and back streets... That side of the city they called the... Edge of Hell"; "In its shadows lurk a million stories and secrets - but none so strange as the story of 'Mr. Valentine!'"; "Written, Produced, and Directed by Hugo Haas") starring Hugo Haas, Francesca De Scaffa, June Shelley (billed as "June Hammerstein"), Ken Carlton, Jeffrey Stone, and "Flip - The Dog". Note that star/director Hugo Haas was a native of Czechoslovakia, and in 1937, he wrote the screenplay for a movie, "Skeleton on Horseback", based on a play by Karel Capek (best remembered as the author of "R.U.R.", the first literary mention of robots), and that movie was obviously intended as an allegory against Hitler and fascism. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia right after the movie was made, Haas fled to the United States, but he never achieved major prominence in movies, although he is well remembered for directing a series of movies about an old man in love with a young beautiful woman (starring Haas himself, with a series of "bad girls", including Cleo Moore)! 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 was printed in the United States for use at theaters with Spanish speaking audiences (this was done most by MGM, starting in the 1930s, but it was done by the other major studios as well, and often the posters would have the exact same image as the English language poster, except the writing would be in Spanish, and often there would be an added "Toda en Espanol!", meaning "Entirely in Spanish!", printed within the image). Condition: good to very good. There is separation and small paper loss in the bottom crossfold as well as some small brown stains scattered throughout the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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