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Auction History Result 2f151 SAINT'S GIRL FRIDAY linen insert '54 sexy Diana Dors & bullets can't stop Louis Hayward! Date Sold 9/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1954 Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Saint's Return (released in the U.S. in 1954 as "The Saint's Girl Friday"), the 1953 Seymour Friedman English England detective mystery crime film noir ("The Saint moves in! Blondes...bullets and blackmail can't stop him!"; "The Saint Hits London, mixing blondes... Bullets... And blackmail!"; "Set up 'The Saint' for the kill!"; "This is the sinner that sets up 'The Saint' for the kill... and sets off the most savage siege of violence London's underworld has ever known!"; "What does it take to stop 'The Saint'? Bullets? Blondes? or blackmail?"; "Based on Characters Created by Leslie Charteris") starring Louis Hayward (in the title role as Simon Templar aka The Saint), Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Jane Carr, and Diana Dors (in a minor role as "The Blonde"). Note that Diana Dors ("England's Marilyn Monroe") had a small part in the movie, but the U.S. distributors of it wisely recognized that she was a strong selling point, so she is prominently features on all the U.S. advertising, in a sexy dress, even though she is not billed on any of the posters! Note that RKO had made a movie based on The Saint in 1938, which starred Louis Hayward. After several other movies, where the character was played by George Sanders, RKO and Leslie Charteris had a falling out, and Charteris sued, and the case was settled out of court. In this 1953 movie, Louis Hayward returned to play the role for RKO, and it was released both under the title "The Saint's Girl Friday" and as "The Saint's Return". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had several extra horizontal folds and there are creases along the folds and many faint scuffs scattered throughout the poster. There was a semi-circular tear in the lower right of the image. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Also, note that at some point after the poster was backed, it acquired some brown dot stains scattered around the edges of the excess linen, with a much smaller number scattered in the image area (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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