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Auction History Result 7m195 RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE insert 1944 Bela Lugosi behind werewolf holding pretty girl, rare! Date Sold 6/18/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Return of the Vampire, the 1943 Lew Landers werewolf vampire monster horror thriller ("Beauty at the mercy of a Monster!"; "Man? Or Monster? Or Both?"; "Terrifying! Paralyzing! Horrifying!"; about an English family who thought they rid themselves of a vampire, but during World War II, German bombs free the monster; it reclaims the soul of its former wolfman servant and plots to take revenge on the family) starring Bela Lugosi (in the title role as the Vampire), Frieda Inescort, Miles Mander, Matt Willis (as the werewolf), and Nina Foch. Note that Columbia would have loved to refer to Bela Lugosi's character as "Dracula", but Universal owned the rights to the character, so they could only refer to him as "the vampire", and he was named "Armand Tesla" (and Matt Willis plays Tesla's werewolf servant!). 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 this is an extremely rare poster. We have only auctioned one example of it in all our years of auctioning, and that was 10 years ago, when it auctioned for $2,136! Note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: very good. The poster had pinholes, tears, and small paper loss around the edges, with surface paper loss and some tiny paper loss on parts of the folds. A talented restorer gel backed the poster (meaning they backed the poster onto a gel material) and they then performed excellent restoration to the defects described below, and then removed the gel backing, so that the poster still exactly looks and feels like an original poster (and it is!), with no backing at all. The restoration was done well, and this rare poster will displays nicely on the new owner's wall! But look at our super-sized image to get a good sense of exactly how the poster appears, and read the above to know what defects it had. Learn More about condition grades 
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