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Auction History Result m039 DOUBLE INDEMNITY linen three-sheet movie poster '44 Billy Wilder, Stanwyck Date Sold 5/30/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) Double Indemnity, the classic 1944 Billy Wilder (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) insurance fraud murder romantic crime film noir ("Paramount's terrific drama of an unholy love and an almost perfect crime!"; "From the Moment they met it was Murder!": "Screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the novel by James M. Cain; about a man who works for an insurance company who meets the wife of a rich man who seduces him into helping her kill her husband, but they have to make it look like an accident so that they can collect double on his life insurance policy!) starring Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Phyllis Dietrichson), Edward G. Robinson (as Barton Keyes), Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines, John Philliber, and Fortunio Bonanova NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. The poster had a small triangular area of paper loss in the vertical foldline 3" below the top crossfold, in Stanwyck's hair just above MacMurray's finger. There was penny-sized area of paper loss with a thin strip of paper loss underneath it in the vertical foldline, starting just above MacMurray's gun, and running into his hand. There was a tiny circular area of paper loss in the lower part of the second "N" in "INDEMNITY" in the title. Other than the above areas of paper loss, the poster had the most minor of wear on the foldlines and in the borders with tiny paper loss at some other crossfolds. It seems likely that this poster was never used, and that the area of the vertical foldline that had the paper loss described above was on the outside when the poster was folded up, and therefore was the part that aged the most. Overall, the poster was in at least very good condition prior to linenbacking (if not for the paper loss described above, I would grade it as "fine"). The poster was well backed, and looks great! Since the small areas of paper loss described above were very expertly restored, and are not at all noticeable, I would think it would be difficult to find a better example of this poster, and I would think every collector would be quite happy to display this poster on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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