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Auction History Result 4h209 BOSTON BLACKIE'S CHINESE VENTURE linen 1sh 1949 detective Chester Morris in Chinatown! Date Sold 3/3/2019 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) Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (released in England as "Chinese Adventure"), the 1949 Seymour Friedman Massachusetts Chinatown detective crime mystery thriller ("A package of tea brews MURDER!"; "Murder in Chinatown!"; "Blackie catches a red-head red-handed!"; the last entry in this long-running, extremely popular series) starring Chester Morris (in the title role as Boston Blackie), Maylia, Richard Lane, Don McGuire, Joan Woodbury, Benson Fong, Phillip Ahs, Sid Tomack, Frank Sully, and Charles Arnt. Note that this is one of fourteen movies made in the 1940s with Chester Morris playing the fictional character "Boston Blackie", a former crook turned detective (there had been ten silent movies made in the 1920s), all of which were based on short stories by Jack Boyle. 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 small paper loss at the bottom crossfold and some extra creases and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds. It had pinholes and tears in the corners. It had some grease pencil writing on the back of the middle of the poster that slightly bleed through in a few of the yellow letters, and also an NSS stamp on the back of the lower left that slightly bled through in Morris' hand and the background to each side and slightly in the left of the "M" of his name. Overall, the poster was in 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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