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Auction History Result 4j166 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL linen French 1p R60s different art of Gort holding sexy girl! Date Sold 12/8/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1960s) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45 3/4" x 62 1/4" [116 x 158 cm]) (Learn More) The Day the Earth Stood Still, the classic 1951 Robert Wise science fiction (sci-fi) alien-contact thriller ("From out of space.... a warning and an ultimatum!"; "Strange power from another planet menaces the Earth!"; from the story by Harry Bates; about a super intelligent alien visiting the Earth, and mankind mistrusts him without reason; he is able to "pass" as a human, and he visits the world's greatest scientist, and when he is injured and taken to a hospital, he is rescued by his robot Gort) starring Michael Rennie (as Klaatu), Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, and Lock Martin (as Gort the Robot). Note that the unusual music heard in this movie was achieved through the use of the musical instrument called a theramin, and audiences loved the eerie sounds it made, and it became standard in many science fiction movies thereafter to use this instrument in the same way! 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 a great different image of a "King Kong"-sized Gort holding Patricia Neal over the soldiers and the terrified crowd, with the Capitol Building and the Washington Monument in the background (and the images of those landmarks were "borrowed" from the one-sheet for "The Deadly Mantis"!). I don't think I have seen this image on any other poster from any other country, except for a small French poster from the same re-release. 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 just a few crossfolds and a very few creases, scuffs, and tiny tears on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but at some point after it was backed, it was roughly handled, and there is now a 12" crease in the top left foldline (both in the poster and in the linen itself), but it is not that distracting and will barely show if the poster is framed. Learn More about condition grades 
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