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Auction History Result 1h0859 HIGH SIERRA linen Belgian 1940s Humphrey Bogart as Mad Dog Killer Roy Earle, different & rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1940s (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/2" x 14 1/2" [29 x 37 cm]) (Learn More) High Sierra, the classic 1941 Raoul Walsh crime film noir ("He killed, and there on the edge of the crest of Sierra's highest crag... he must be killed!"; "Blazing Mountain Man-Hunt for Killer 'Mad-Dog' Earle!"; "Towering thrills with this year's academy award star!"; "The blazing mountain man-hunt for killer 'Mad Dog' Earle!"; "'This is the most exciting story I know!' - says ace story-teller and columnist Mark Hellinger"; "No man ever reached greater heights... to wait for death!"; "If you liked 'They Drive By Night' wait 'til you see... 'High Sierra'"; from a novel by W.R. Burnett) starring Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart (in one of his best roles, and the movie that helped elevate him from second-tier status to first-rate star!; as Mad Dog Roy Earle), Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Minna Gombell, Barton MacLane, Jerome Cowan, Elisabeth Risdon, and Cornell Wilde (15th billed in his first credited role) 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 we have previously auctioned three examples of this Belgian poster, and one of those examples has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still only one of three examples of this poster we have ever auctioned! Note that we can't say for certain when this movie was released in Belgium. It was released in Sweden in 1941, so it played in at least one European country in that year. But it was not released in France until 1947, so it would seem to surely date from between 1941 and 1947. But because the poster is printed in a very small size (11 1/2" x 14 1/2"), which is normally only seen in Belgian posters from 1944 or 1945 (when there were extreme paper shortages in Belgium), we think it more likely dates to one of those two years. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. We don't know if this poster originally had a blank top, because it is one of the Belgian posters printed in a very small size during World War II, and some of those had blank tops, and some did not, and we have never seen another of these. The poster had a horizontal fold across the bottom of the top border and two near the middle. There was a line of faint brown staining along part of that top middle fold. There were some stains and tears around the edges, with some tiny dot stains scattered in the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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