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Auction History Result 5h0518 THING linen 1sh 1951 Howard Hawks, natural or supernatural, most unusual blood & guts image! Date Sold 10/29/2023 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) Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World!, the classic 1951 Christian Nyby science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("The Thing from another world!"; "How did it get here?"; "Natural or Supernatural?"; "Howard Hawks' Astounding Movie"; "Look out... it's The Thing from another world!"; produced by Howard Hawks; based on the story by John W. Campbell, best known for being the editor of Astounding Science Fiction!) starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Dewey Martin, Paul Frees, John Dierkes, Eduard Franz, James Arness (in the title role as The Thing From Another World!), William Self, and Billy Curtis (as the miniature "Thing" in the final sequence when the monster appears to shrink). Note that this movie had a very unusual poster campaign, where the letters of the title were made to look like body parts ("blood and guts"!), with wires coming off of the letters. Almost all the posters had this basic design. The pressbook calls all of them "teaser" posters and says "This display material was designed for an advance teaser campaign, as well as for general use". So obviously, they intentionally wanted to have the posters not reveal much about the movie, as a way to get people interested and get them into the theater. 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 top and bottom crossfold, with tiny paper loss at the middle crossfold. It had a few small bits of paper loss on small parts of some folds, with some fine surface paper loss on parts of some folds. It had some pinholes and tears around the edges, with small paper loss in the top right corner and the top center of the poster. It had a 9" tear in the left of the top border, extending through the left of the "U" at top left. It had some tears and small paper loss in the top left corner, slightly extending into the green background. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see slight signs of the restoration in the corners. There is a tiny dot of surface paper loss in the left of the bottom fold that likely occurred after the poster was backed. While I could see many collectors displaying this just as it is, it also could make sense to have a restorer touch up the defects described above, which can certainly be done easily and without re-backing the poster. Either way, the new owner will have a great poster to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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