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Auction History Result 5j0894 GIRL ON THE BRIDGE 1/2sh 1951 bad girl Beverly Michaels is man-bait, and murder, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/18/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) The Girl on the Bridge, the 1951 Hugo Haas bad girl crime film noir ("That 'Pickup' Girl is Back..!"; "Picking up where she left off!"; "More tempting, more tantalizing, more taunting than ever!"; "Put together by the devil to drive men wild!"; "She's man-bait and murder!") starring Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Robert Dane, Anthony Jochim, and John Close. 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 is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Note also that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters! Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It has a few tears of varying lengths at lower right (one extends into the art at lower right) and there is another slightly larger tear at upper center (which extends into the "S" of "She's".) There are some creases and tiny tears at upper right in the blank border edge that have been repaired with tape from the back. There are two slightly diagonal scuffs that extend from bottom center to the upper right portion of Michaels' coat (see our image). They are not overly noticeable or distracting when the poster is displayed at a reasonable viewing distance. It is otherwise in generally nice condition and while this ultra rare poster could be displayed as is, after a relatively simple paperbacking it would look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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