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#6679 CONTEMPT Set of 7 Italian photobusta movie posters '63

Date Sold 2/24/2004
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A Set of 7 Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian Photobusta Movie Posters (measure 18 1/4" x 26 1/2") (Learn More)

Le Mepris (released in English-speaking countries as "Contempt"), the 1963 (released in the U.S. in 1964) Jean-Luc Godard French/Italian movie-making romantic love triangle melodrama ("Bardot is the body beautiful... she knows it... and she shows it!"; "Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia"; a very complex story about a screenwriter who is assigned by his producer to make a screenplay of "The Odyssey" more commercial, and he has a beautiful young wife who believes he wants her to sleep with the producer to help his career) starring Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Fritz Lang, and Giorgia Moll. Note that the director of the movie-within-the-movie is identified as Fritz Lang, and the legendary director plays himself!
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Important Added Info: Note that these Italian photobustas measure 18 1/4" x 26 1/2" and are folded. Note that these posters were folded at one time but have been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.

Condition: good to very good. small embossed stamp in the upper right of the image background in each poster; creases and scuffing along the foldlines and to a lesser extent throughout each poster; extra foldlines in some of the posters; masking tape on the back as well as some tape stains around the edges of the poster with Bardot and Palance pictured kissing; pairs of staple holes or tack holes scattered throughout each poster (more so around the edges); small tear along some of the foldlines and edges of the posters
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