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Auction History Result 3g322 CAPTIVE HEART Japanese 15x20 '48 Michael Redgrave is concentration camp escapee in POW camp! Date Sold 12/10/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1948 (from the first release of this movie in Japan) Vintage Theatrical Folded Japanese "B3" or "Nakazuri" Movie Poster (14x20; measures 14 1/2" x 20 1/4" [37 x 51 cm]) (Learn More) The Captive Heart, the 1946 (released in the U.S. in 1947) Basil Dearden English World War II (WWII) military POW (prisoner of war) melodrama ("Would you forge love letters to save your life?"; "The Strangest Love Story Ever Told..."; "He forged love letters - to save his life!"; about a group of British prisoners of war in a POW camp in Germany in World War II, and one of them is an impostor, who is actually a Czechoslovakian concentration camp escapee, who is impersonating a British officer, and he is sought by the Gestapo; the impostor must write to his "wife", who he has never met, of course, and he is constantly fearful of being discovered and being returned to a concentration camp) starring Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Gordon Jackson, Jimmy Hanley, Rachel Kempson, Basil Radford, Jack Warner, Guy Middleton, and Jane Barrett. Note that this movie was made right after World War II, and most of it was filmed in Germany, in a reconstructed POW camp. It is the first movie made about World War II German prisoners of war! In the movie, the impostor is only identified as being Czech, but because he was in a concentration camp, one wonders if he wasn't also Jewish, although that is not specified in the movie. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 Japanese B3 poster measures 14 1/2" x 20 1/4" [37 x 51 cm]. Also note that the poster is double-sided, but not in the regular U.S. way! This smaller Japanese poster has lots of black & white images on the reverse, along with much text information (in Japanese). Finally, note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good to fine. The poster was folded across the middle and it has some faint creases scattered throughout. Learn More about condition grades 
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