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Auction History Result 5p0710 MASH linen world premiere 1sh 1970 Robert Altman's classic gives a damn, extremely rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) M*A*S*H, the classic 1970 Robert Altman (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Korean War army-life military black comedy ("MASH gives a DAMN"; "Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr."; "From a novel by Richard Hooker"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Donald Sutherland (as 'Hawkeye' Pierce), Elliott Gould (as 'Trapper John' McIntyre), Tom Skerritt (as 'Duke' Forrest), Sally Kellerman (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan), Robert Duvall (as Major 'Frank' Burns), Jo Ann Pflug (as 'Dish' Schneider), Rene Auberjonois (as Father Mulcahy; in his first credited movie role!), Gary Burghoff (as 'Radar' O'Reilly), Roger Bowen (as Colonel Henry Blake), Fred Williamson (as 'Spearchucker' Jones), Kim Atwood (as Ho-Jon), John Schuck (as 'Painless' Waldowski), Indus Arthur, and David Arkin (as the PA announcer) 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 incredibly rare poster. It has full credits and a blurb at the bottom for the specific theater in New York City where the movie premiered in 1970. The "regular" one-sheet has reviews on it, and because that is the only poster that most people (even advanced collectors) have ever seen, most would think that that was the ONLY one-sheet made for this movie when it was first released. However, this poster (which is review-free!) predates that regular poster, making it the "pre-reviews" one-sheet. This is one of two versions of this poster that has surfaced! This version has the blurb for the specific theater at the bottom, and the other version does not have that blurb, but is otherwise identical. One could argue that the poster with the blurb pre-dates the one without, but there is no proof of that. How do we know for sure that both version of this poster predate the reviews one? Because in 1968, the MPAA added ratings to movies, and posters from movies after the ratings were added all have the well known ratings on them (but those were G, M, R, and X in 1968). In 1970, the M was changed to GP, and the R was changed from "persons under 16 not admitted" to "persons under 17 not admitted". This poster has the former rating, and the "reviews" poster has the latter rating, so we know that this poster was made in 1970 before the change, and the reviews poster was made later in 1970, after the change, when the movie was released. This poster is likely so rare because of a combination of factors. One reason was that the tagline "MASH gives a DAMN" was surely controversial at that time and likely was used as a tagline because the movie contained far more swear words than had been heard in any Hollywood movie to that time, including the "F" word (and rumor has it that Robert Altman wanted to have a "swear" word on the poster to emphasize that fact)! We have previously auctioned five examples of the other version of this poster (the one without the "Baronet" line at the bottom), but we have only once before auctioned this one with the Baronet line, and it auctioned for $1,870! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was never folded. It had a 1" diagonal crease in the white background near the middle of the poster and just a few tiny tears in small parts of the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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