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Auction History Result 5t028 CRIME WAVE signed 1sh '53 by director Andre De Toth, the city blasted sin-side out! Date Sold 3/10/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Autographed One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Crime Wave (released other English-speaking countries as "The City Is Dark"), the 1953 Andre de Toth Los Angeles California escaped convicts crime film noir ("Mob-land vengeance pulls the fuse...and The City Is Dark"; "The new Warner Bros. Killers vs. Cops sensation"; "Before your shocked eyes -- the city blasted sin-side out!"; "Every mugger-nest, creep-joint and dim-lit dive busts wide-open in the year's bullet-riddled cops vs. killers sensation!"; "'Scream baby - I don't mind!'"; "The One-Time Loser! Squeezed both ways - by the law and the mob!"; "Chinatown Hideout! Blasted wide open!"; "The 'Badge' - who looks more like a hood than the hoods he rounds up!"; "From a Saturday Evening Post Story by John and Ward Hawkins"; "Sin stalks the sidewalks! Crime crawls in shadow!"; about an ex-con, played by Gene Nelson, who has gone straight, but some of his former crime buddies escape from San Quentin and they take refuge in the ex-con's house, and he is caught between them and the police, who think he is in with them) starring Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Timothy Carey, Ted de Corsia, Jay Novello, Nedrick Young, and an extremely young Charles Bronson (billed as "Charles Buchinsky", his real name). Note that this is an almost completely forgotten film noir, but is is very much in the tradition of "The Asphalt Jungle" and "The Killing", and it has a really first rate cast with the three escapees played by Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, and Charles Bronson! 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 poster has been personally autographed (signed) by director Andre De Toth! Note that the consignor of this item (and 76 other signed items that are each in their own auction) was an employee of the American Cinematheque for many years, and for most of that time he was the manager of the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California. When celebrity guests would appear at the theater for interviews or questions & answer sessions, our consignor would ask those celebrities to sign posters or other movie paper items that he had in his collection, and of course, they always did so! So this is a rare opportunity to purchase 100% guaranteed authentic signed movie paper items, where there is not the slightest doubt that these celebrity themselves signed those items! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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