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Auction History Result

9w030 BLACK SLEEP 1/2sh '56 Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, terror-drug wakes the dead!

Date Sold 8/5/2014
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More)

The Black Sleep, the 1956 Reginald Le Borg horror thriller ("The Black Sleep... the terror-drug that wakes the dead!"; "A horror-horde of monster-mutants walks the earth!"; "Out of the evil brain of a twisted scientist comes a fantastic robot army, crushing all barriers ...feeding on beauty, lusting to claw the world apart!"; "Rising from the depths of a black hell! An army of mammoth monsters attacks!"; "Beyond any terror ever known - the clawing fury of sub-human creatures at war with the world!"; "The Black Sleep... It wakes the dead!"; "You go to sleep a human being... You wake up a hulking horror - transformed by the evil 'experiments' of a satanic scientist!"; "...The terror-drug that wakes the dead!"; "See! The diabolical doctor create supermonsters!"; "See! The death-struggle of man against ghoul!"; "See! The helpless young girl writhe in the grasp of a fiend!") starring Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair (billed as "Patricia Blake"), Phyllis Stanley, Tor Johnson, Sally Yarnell, George Sawaya, and Claire Carleton
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets).

Condition: good to very good. The poster has darkened slightly with age. There is a tiny area of surface paper loss at lower left in the bottom of the "A" in "BLACK". There are some 1" and smaller tears down the right edge of the poster that have been repaired with clear tape from the back. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition.
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