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Auction History Result e123 BLACKWELL'S ISLAND linen one-sheet movie poster '39 John Garfield Date Sold 10/19/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Blackwell's Island, the 1939 William C. McGann & Michael Curtiz New York City prison convict crime thriller ("John Garfield dramatically exposes Blackwell's Island"; "Original story by Crane Wilbur & Lee Katz") starring John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell, Victor Jory, and Stanley Fields. Note that this movie was loosely based on real life events. In 1828, New York City purchased this island, which was in the harbor outside New York City, and put a prison there. They later added a mental institution for mentally ill patients and also a hospital. But over the years, there was massive corruption at the prison. In 1934, a major racketeer set up shop inside the prison, running his criminal enterprises from within the prison (a real life "Dr. Mabuse", the master criminal that Fritz Lang had running a German criminal empire from within a mental hospital). It took a lot of doing, but New York City was able to shut down the criminal enterprise and somewhat clean up the prison, and this movie was a fictionalized version of those events. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and one of the following is true: either the poster had very minor defects, and was well backed, OR it had more significant defects, but they were well restored, OR it had some minor defects that were not completely restored, and are somewhat noticeable. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster had tiny paper loss at the middle crossfold and a scratch in Lane's hair at middle left. There are two scuffs in Garfield's shoulder at middle right. There are a few other less noticeable smudges and scuffs around the edges of the poster. The poster is well linenbacked but the person who did so pretty much just mounted the poster and left the minor defects alone. They are not very noticeable or distracting, but if they bothered the new owner of the poster, a talented restorer could touch them up without rebacking the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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