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Auction History Result h001 ISLE OF THE DEAD linen insert movie poster '45 Boris Karloff Date Sold 11/2/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36") (Learn More) Isle of the Dead, the 1945 Mark Robson undead plague horror thriller ("A graves dank darkness smothers the screams of a girl"; "What evil force is loose that empties graves of those long dead... buries those still alive... leaves behind it death - and worse?"; "She isn't dead yet she's buried alive!"; "Appalling! Weird! Baffling!"; "Isle of the Dead will keep you screaming!"; "Graves in frenzy!"; "The living buried!"; "The dead distorted!"; "'Vorvalaka!'...the world you hear only once - for the next time it's uttered You Are Dead!"; produced by Val Lewton; about an army general who, after a war in 1912, goes to an island to visit the grave of his wife, but he finds her body missing, and he learns that the natives dig up old graves looking for valuables, and he declares that he will find those people and punish them, and he soon is involved with vampires and zombies) starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katharine Emery, Helen Thimig, and Jason Robards Sr. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked and during the backing process, its defects were repaired and it now looks nice. From any distance away, you can't see what restoration was done. It may have had only very minor defects, or it may have had more significant defects that were well restored. It is possible that you can see SOME traces of the restoration from a distance, but if so, we clearly note it below. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster had some light horizontal creases throughout (caused by rolling and unrolling prior to backing). It also had some minor border defects and creases along the folds. Linenbacking has greatly minimized these basically minor defects, but you can still see signs of them from close up. But they are really not distracting, and this poster is in nice condition and there is little paint restoration on it. Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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