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4y0195 SPLIT SECOND linen 1sh 1953 art of Stephen McNally kissing Alexis Smith, Dick Powell noir!

Date Sold 7/7/2020

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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

Split Second, the 1953 Dick Powell atomic age Nevada crime film noir ("Drama that EXPLODES in your future!"; "Six people face-to-face with utter destruction! Doctor... convict... hard-boiled reporter... and two 'nice' women... who fought over a killer's brutal kisses!"; "Steel Your Nerves!"; "Here's excitement that will smash them! Suspense that screams... And screams... In this story of six people caught in a desert death trap ...facing utter destruction!"; "When this picture EXPLODES... You'll know what action-excitement really is!"; "Screenplay by William Bowers and Irving Wallace"; about a notorious killer who escapes from prison and takes hostages to a ghost town in Nevada where an atomic bomb test is planned for the very next day!) starring Stephen McNally , Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt, and Paul Kelly
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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and some tears and paper loss on parts of several foldlines, with some small areas of paper loss in the image that were not on the foldlines. It had pinholes in the corners. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects.
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