eMoviePoster.com
Auction History Result 7a0105 REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES 1/2sh 1936 Dean Jagger, cool monster art + 4 movie scenes, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Revolt of the Zombies, the 1936 Victor Halperin World War I (WWI) romantic love triangle zombie fantasy horror thriller ("Weirdest love story in 200 years"; a bizarre story that starts out on the French-Austrian front in World War I, and a soldier finds an Asian priest with the secret of turning men into zombies, and they imprison the priest, and before he dies, the man thinks he gets the secret, but it leads him to Angkor in Cambodia, where he finds a hidden temple where he actually does get the secret, and while this has been going on, his girlfriend has turned to another man, and he turns hundreds of Cambodians into zombies, and uses them to force his girlfriend to marry him, and he plans on conquering the world, but when he realizes that his girlfriend doesn't love him, he becomes depressed and his zombies are overthrown and he is killed!) starring Dorothy Stone, Dean Jagger, Robert Noland, Carl Stockdale, Roy D'Arcy, George Cleveland, "and a Big Cast". Note that this movie originally was called "Revolt of the Demons", but because of the great success of "White Zombie" in 1932, the title was changed to "Revolt of the Zombies", and it was intended as a sort of sequel to the earlier movie, which was also directed by Halperin. Part of the movie was filmed on location in Angkor, which was the ruins of a lost Cambodian civilization (the movie "Forbidden Adventure in Angkor" was filmed the same year). There was a lawsuit over the title by Sherman S. Krellberg's Amusement Securities Corp, who had bought the rights to White Zombie, but he lost, and it was released with the Revolt of the Zombies title. The movie had a major archaeological expert as a technical adviser! Note that there are frequent images of zombie eyes superimposed over the screen, and director Halperin used Bela Lugosi's eyes from White Zombie for those images! Finally, it sure seems likely that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were inspired by this movie when they created Raiders of the Lost Ark, because it has several "borrowed" elements (there is a search for a secret that can destroy the world, and the action shifts from one remote location to another, etc.)! 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 ANY first release posters from this movie are incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a one-sheet, which sold for $2,450, from this movie (and NO other posters of any kind, only stills, lobby cards, and a pressbook) until we received this half-sheet, which has a completely different layout and design from the one-sheet we auctioned! Note that because the poster has condition issues, we don't want to roll the poster prior to mailing, because we believe that rolling the poster would likely lessen its condition even more. If you specifically request it, we will roll this poster, but you will not be able to return it. Otherwise, it will be sent in a large flat package that measures approximately 24" x 30" (but it can be combined with other posters the same size, including ones that could be rolled). Please bear the expense of a large package in mind before bidding on this poster. Condition: good. For unknown reasons, someone took a razor and cut the poster across the middle and also 1 1/2" above that and 1" below that. The three cuts are very clean and there is almost no paper loss along the cuts (see our image). Someone else put white conservation tape on the back of the upper and lower cuts, but not the middle one. There is also a diagonal crease in the bottom left, water staining in the right of the bottom blank border, and tiny paper loss in the upper left blank border. If I owned this incredibly rare poster, I would surely give it to a talented restorer to paperback, and after a fairly simple restoration, the poster will display wonderfully! Learn More about condition grades 
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CST) |
|||||||||||||
