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Auction History Result 7w253 UNCERTAIN GLORY linen 1sh '44 art of French Errol Flynn face-to-face with Nazi Paul Lukas! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Uncertain Glory, the 1944 Raoul Walsh World War II (WWII) France romantic crime execution melodrama ("From an Original Story by Joe May and Laszlo Vadnay"; about a Frenchman who is due to be executed by guillotine, and the Germans take 100 French people hostage and threaten to execute them unless they can find out who sabotaged a train, and the Frenchman agrees to confess to that crime, so that he can be shot by the Germans instead of guillotined by his own people!) starring Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson, James Flavin, Francis Pierlot, and Douglass Dumbrille. Note that the guillotine is commonly associated with the French Revolution, and the 18th Century, but many people do not realize that it remained the method of execution in France all the way until 1977 (although public guillotines were banned in 1939, after which executions occurred in prison courtyards)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had tiny tears and tiny dots of paper loss scattered on several foldlines. There were pinholes, creases, and tears around the edges of the poster, with an area of paper loss at the center of the top border. The poster was not that well backed, because you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I would think few collectors would want to display it as it is, without someone performing some additional restoration. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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