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Auction History Result

1z587 PURPLE GANG insert '59 Robert Blake, Barry Sullivan, they matched Al Capone crime for crime!

Date Sold 6/14/2012
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More)

The Purple Gang, the 1959 Frank McDonald crime thriller ("They matched Capone kill for kill, in a tidal wave of terror!"; "Authentic! Brutally Real!"; "Authentically told! Brutally real!"; "This was the Murder Machine that matched AL CAPONE crime for crime, vice for vice, kill for kill!"; "They ran Detroit with rum-running, highjacking, and murder! They were the top executioners of Prohibition's underworld! They sold a million worth of dope...in flowers! They invented the Rub-Out Car and the 'Cement Overcoat'! They organized the most feared 'Protection Racket' on the history of crime!"; "Authentic the way it happened!"; "The roaring mob of gangland's worst marauders, the 300 killers if 'Honeyboy' Willard who held a gun at the heart off a city and brought the underworld to its knees!"; "They invented the 'Cement Overcoat' for squealers!"; "They used the first 'Rub-Out Car' for execution!"; "They introduced the Machine Gun to gang warfare!"; "All authentic!"; "How it happened and why!"; "With a screen foreword by Congressman James Roosevelt"; "Written by Jack DeWitt") starring Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards, Mark Cavell, Judy Lawrence, Joseph Turkel, Nestor Paiva, and Suzanne Ridgway (billed as "Suzy Marquette")
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been machine folded! Most insert posters were folded twice horizontally right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded example of most insert posters, especially from before 1970!

Condition: very good.
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