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Auction History Result 1h0900 ALGIERS linen 1sh 1938 Charles Boyer, sexy Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, film noir, very rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Algiers, the 1938 John Cromwell romantic film noir ("You've got a date with danger.... A rendezvous with romance in glamorous, mysterious Algiers. A drama of the street of a thousand doors, a thousand smiling eyes, a thousand thrills."; based on the novel by Henri La Barthe with "additional dialogue by James M. Cain"; virtually a word-for-word remake of the Jean Gabin French classic, "Pepe Le Moko"; set in the Casbah where a master thief is lured to his doom because of his love for a beautiful woman) starring Charles Boyer (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "As 'Pepe le Moko.' He ruled the Casbah, every man his enemy - every woman his slave!"), Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr ("as 'Gaby' - a woman with a past who lived the way men taught her to... Shamelessly!"), Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale Sr., Gene Lockhart (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Madame Nina Koshetz, Johnny Downs, and Stanley Fields 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 we have only previously auctioned two examples of this 1938 first release one-sheet, and the last one was 16 years ago! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some darkening and creases along parts of the folds, with a few tiny tears. It had pinholes and darkening around the edges. It had some faint staining in the upper right yellow background area. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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