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Auction History Result 3a275 GODZILLA linen 1sh '56 Gojira, great art of the unstoppable titan of terror, classic sci-fi! Date Sold 12/11/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1956 Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Gojira (released in the U.S. in 1956 as "Godzilla, King of the Monsters"; see below), the classic 1954 Ishiro Honda Japanese Toho kaiju battling rubbery monsters horror science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("Raging through the world on a rampage of destruction"; "An enraged monster wipes out an entire city!"; "Incredible, unstoppable titan of terror!"; "It's Alive!"; "Civilization crumbles as its death rays blast a city of 6 million from the face of the earth!"; "Mightiest monster! Mightiest melodrama of them all!"; "Spawned in the ocean's depths... it stalks the earth! Belching fire that blasts mighty cities into oblivion! A gory Goliath that lives to kill... kills to live! Diabolical demon of destruction... mightiest monster of them all - Godzilla!"; "Makes King King look like a midget!"; "Earth-shaking! Screen-shattering!"; "Awesome - and then some! - Civilization totters! Science astounded!"; "See! A monstrous sea-beast... surging up from the ocean! ... a city of six-million wiped out by its death ray blast! ...Giant ships swamped! Jet planes swept from the skies! Trains ripped from the rails!"; "More! More! More! See every screen-shattering thrill!") starring Raymond Burr (in the American version), Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, and Haruo Nakajima (the man in the Godzilla monster suit!). Note that this movie was originally titled "Gojira" when released in Japan in 1954. Two years later, an Americanized re-edited version was released which listed Terry Morse and Ishiro Honda as directors. It had most of the commentary by the Japanese actors about nuclear war removed, and new scenes were shot with Raymond Burr, who plays a TV commentator announcing what Godzilla is doing, thus allowing him to be in the movie without actually appearing in any of the original scenes! Even though these new scenes with Raymond Burr were added, the new running time of the movie was still 8 minutes shorter than the original running time, because they removed quite a bit of the original footage. The U.S. version is 90 minutes, and the original Japanese version is 98 minutes. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster is significantly faded. All of the reds in the poster have changed to a light orange color. Otherwise, the poster had tiny paper loss and scuffs at the crossfolds, with tiny creases, scuffs, and some tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds, with pinholes in the corners and in the top center, in the "A" of "UNSTOPPABLE". Apparently, when the poster was first backed, the restoration paint on the foldlines and in the first letters of the title blended in well with the colors in those areas. But when the poster faded (obviously while it was displayed on a wall in a frame, because there is tiny excess linen around the edges of the poster), the restoration paint did not, and it is noticeable on the folds and in the first "L" of the title (see our super-sized image). Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its significant defects described above or are willing to pay to have further restoration performed. Learn More about condition grades 
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