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Auction History Result 2b175 ALAMO linen Belgian 1960 Brown art of John Wayne & Richard Widmark in the War of Independence! Date Sold 12/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 17 1/4" x 25 1/4" [44 x 64 cm]) (Learn More) The Alamo, the 1960 John Wayne Texas War of Independence cowboy western ("The screen's 12 million dollar spectacle! thousands in the cast! years in the making!"; "It took years to make... it cost $12,000,000 ...it will be remembered forever!"; "The mission that became a fortress... The fortress that became a shrine..."; "Mammoth thousands upon thousands in the cast!... 12 million dollars poured into its filming ...years in the making!"; "You'll Remember The Vast Armies Avalanching Across Mountain And Plain! You'll Remember The Awesome Siege of the Cannon! You'll Remember The Stand Of The 156 Men Against 7,000! You'll Remember Davy Crockett Standing On the Ramparts! You'll Remember The Daring Raid Into the Heart Of The Enemy Camp! You'll Remember The Unsung Exploit Of The Midnight Courier! You'll Remember The Charge of the Scarlet Plumes!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring John Wayne ("as Colonel David Crockett", better known as Davy Crockett), Richard Widmark ("as Colonel James Bowie"), Laurence Harvey ("as Colonel Wm. Barret Travis"), Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Joseph Calleia, and Richard Boone (billed as "Guest Star Richard Boone"). Note that this movie was first announced by Republic Pictures in 1950, starring John Wayne, but for various reasons, the movie was never made at that time. Finally, Wayne was able to get it made (with himself as the director) a full decade later! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Reynold Brown Important Added Info: Note that this poster has been trimmed (approximately 2" from the top blank border) and it now measures 17 1/4" x 25 1/4" [44 x 64 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster originally had a blank top that was partially neatly trimmed off (this is commonly done with Belgian posters, similar to how the blank top is trimmed off of U.S. window cards). The poster also had minor wear on the vertical fold and a few small tears in the borders. It had faint water staining scattered in parts of the borders, with water staining in the right of the bottom border, extending up into the small credits. 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. Also, after it was backed, it was slightly roughly handled, and it acquired two creases in the bottom right corner that extend into the bottom right blank corner of the poster (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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