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Auction History Result 6a456 STRANGE CARGO linen style C 1sh 1940 great art of Clark Gable & Joan Crawford, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/29/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style C One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Strange Cargo, the 1940 Frank Borzage South America Devil's Island escaped convict romantic crime melodrama ("Flight of the damned -- as a sin ship rides the waves!"; "Based on the book 'Not Too Narrow Not Too Deep' by Richard Sale"; about a prisoner on Devil's Island who tries to escape, but is turned in by a pretty saloon girl, and he tries to escape a second time with a group of men by boat, and one of them is a strange Christ-like figure who seems to know what is going to happen before it does) starring Clark Gable ("Clark Gable's Greatest Adventure!"), Joan Crawford ("Joan Crawford's Boldest Romance!"), Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, J. Edward Bromberg, Eduardo Ciannelli, and Charles Judels. Note that this movie was partially filmed in the studio, and partially "on location", but Pismo Beach, California stood in for Devil's Island! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1936 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned two examples of the style D one-sheet and one half-sheet from this movie (and no other posters) until we received this style C one-sheet, which we have never auctioned before! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss at the top two crossfolds and tiny paper loss at the bottom crossfold. It had tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss along parts of several folds, with small tears, pinholes, and some tiny paper loss around the edges. 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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