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Auction History Result 9f139 LEOPARD MAN linen 1sh '43 Jacques Tourneur, Val Lewton, colorful cat claw horror art, rare! Date Sold 8/16/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Leopard Man, the 1943 Jacques Tourneur wild-animal-on-the-loose murder mystery crime thriller ("Women alone the victims of strange, savage killer!"; "You'll gasp with amazement!"; "Thrill-Killer of Women and Girls!"; "You'll be astounded to learn that such things can happen!"; "Death striking from the dark with ripping fury!...Was it man or beast that tore to shreds victim after victim - striking only at defenseless beauty? ...Know the truth about these murders-for-a-thrill!"; "Produced by Val Lewton"; based on the novel 'Black Alibi' by Cornell Woolrich; as in "Cat People", Lewton and Tourneur did not have money for much make-up or special effects, so the posters for this movie promise much more than the film actually delivered in terms of a monster, but the movie works quite well on its own terms!) starring Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Ben Bard, Abner Biberman, and Margaret Landry. A knowledgeable collector tells us that this may be the first film to use the desert of the American Southwest as a setting for a horror film. 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 is an extremely rare poster (likely because it was given a quick re-release in 1952, and also likely because it probably didn't play in that many theaters in 1943). We have only auctioned two examples of this poster in all our years of auctioning, in 1997, and in 2013, when it auctioned for $1,250 (and that poster was in similar condition to this one). 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 bottom two crossfolds, with tears and tiny bits of paper loss between the middle and bottom crossfolds and in the right half of the bottom horizontal fold, and at one time there was tape on the back of most of those parts of the folds. The rest of the folds have pretty minor wear. There were some pinholes and pieces of tape around the edges of the poster, with paper loss in the bottom of the right blank border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was expertly restored and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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