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Auction History Result 8x440 SHANGHAI GESTURE linen 1sh R46 Josef von Sternberg, art of Gene Tierney & Victor Mature! Date Sold 12/8/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1946) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Shanghai Gesture (released in France simply as "Shanghai"), the 1942 Josef von Sternberg China Asian gambling crime film noir melodrama ("Shanghai Where almost anything can happen... and does!"; "From the celebrated play by John Colton"; "Not one dared to refuse this invitation!"; "Mother Gin Sling requests the pleasure of your company at dinner on Saturday Evening, the fourteenth of February at eight o'clock at Mother Gin Sling's Casino to usher in the Chinese New Year R.S.V.P. I am SURE you will come!"; "All roads meet in Shanghai where Mother Gin Sling ruled its glittering underworld - where lovely young Poppy was swiftly swept under by a half-mad love - where fatefully fascinating Dr. Omar thanked Allah for the love of which he tired so quickly! Fascinating characters made the stage play memorable - will make the picture unforgettable!"; produced by Arnold Pressburger; about an Asian woman who runs a gambling house in Shanghai, and a rich businessman buys the land it is on, and she must vacate soon, but she has an ace in the hole, which is that she was married to the businessman many years ago, and he has a daughter who has turned up in the gambling house, and the Asian woman gets the daughter addicted to drugs and alcohol, so that she can blackmail her father) starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston ("Sir Guy Charteris! Arrogant - powerful - trapped by the follies of his youth!"), Victor Mature, Ona Munson ("Mother Gin Sling - impassive, strange - with a past people could only hint at!"), Phyllis Brooks ("Dixie Pomeroy! She played a game with her youth and beauty... as the police waited!"), Albert Basserman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore, Clyde Fillmore, Ivan Lebedeff, and Rex Evans 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 the poster is undated, but it has a litho number, and comparing this number to our massive database of litho numbers taken from actual movie posters, we can determine that this poster is almost certainly from 1946! Condition: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and a few small tears and tiny areas of paper loss on parts of some foldlines. There was a black marker circle above the second "E" of "GENE" in the credits. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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