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Auction History Result 8b132 RACKET BUSTERS black 1/2sh '38 Humphrey Bogart, cool different huge clenched fist artwork! Date Sold 6/16/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Racket Busters, the 1938 Lloyd Bacon gangster crime thriller ("Warner Bros.' Timely Bombshell!"; "Original screen play by Robert Rossen and Leonard Bercovici"; Bogart is a gangster who muscles into the trucking business and when he catches a desperate employee stealing to support his pregnant wife, he blackmails the poor guy into joining his crooked enterprise!) starring Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Gloria Dickson, Allen Jenkins, and Walter Abel. Note that the film's story was inspired by real-life headlines about New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey (future Republican presidential nominee) and his fight against organized crime. 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 poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster had darkened to a creamy color, typical of Warner Bros. linen half-sheets from this period. It also had paper loss at the crossfold and tiny areas of paper loss in the right half of the horizontal fold with a lesser amount of wear on the vertical fold. It had a horizontal crease 3" from the top of the poster. It had pinholes in the corners and some areas of paper loss in the top of the blank border. It had a few scuffs scattered in the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. 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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