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Auction History Result 8b509 DESPERATE HOURS insert '55 Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, William Wyler! Date Sold 5/20/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Desperate Hours, the 1955 William Wyler crime hostage thriller ("Adapted from the novel and play by Joseph Hayes"; based on a real-life story of a family taken hostage in their own home by escaped convicts; the person whose life this was based on sued for invasion of privacy, but he was ruled a "public figure" by the Supreme Court, and this was the first such case, and now means that public figures have no ability to restrict invasion into their privacy!) starring Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy, and Richard Eyer. An interesting piece of trivia is that the lawyer who defended the real life family in the Supreme Court case to try to preserve their right to privacy was Richard Nixon, later President of the United States! 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 Paramount created two completely different first release inserts for this movie, something that was very rarely done (it was quite common for half-sheets to have a style A and a style B, but for unknown reasons, this was almost never done for inserts except in rare cases like this). We call them the "yellow background style" and the "white background style" because they have no style letters to distinguish them. Condition: very good. There are a few minor scuff marks scattered throughout the poster and there are a few minor creases and 1/2" and smaller tears around the edges. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition and it displays well. Learn More about condition grades 
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