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This is an eMoviePoster.com stock image. What does this mean?  Auction History Result Lot #: JW 093 DESERT TRAIL linen one-sheet movie poster '35 John Wayne on horseback!  Date Sold 7/10/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in John Wayne Movie Posters at Auction CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Desert Trail, the 1935 Lewis D. Collins gambling cowboy western (Wayne is a rodeo star who, along with his professional gambler friend, is falsely accused of armed robbery, and they escape, and head to "Poker City" to find the real robbers) starring John Wayne, Lafe McKee, Mary Kornman, Paul Fix, Eddy Chandler, Carmen Laroux, and Al Ferguson. Note that this is one of the 16 westerns John Wayne made for Lone Star Productions, produced by Paul Malvern. Lone Star was a subsidiary of Monogram Pictures. For the very first release of these 16 movies, lobby cards were made that say "A Lone Star Production". After John Wayne achieved major success in 1939, the movies were re-released with new lobby cards that say "A Monogram Picture". The lobby cards from both releases are extremely rare, and the ones from the very first Lone Star release are unbelievably rare (in some cases, only a very few or no lobby cards are known to exist!). 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 is apparently an original 1935 poster from this movie (only "Lone Star" is credited, and it is clearly a 1930s poster, so it would seem to have to be from the first release). It also has a look like it could be a "stock poster", and yet no other poster with this image has ever surfaced, making that far less likely. To complicate matters further, there is a second entirely different "original" poster from this title! Our best guess is (as we wrote on the other poster's description) that the studio did not have a poster ready when this movie was released, and so re-worked a poster from the recently released "Lawless Frontier". It seems quite possible that they then went ahead and prepared the regular poster for this movie to replace the temporary "borrowed" one, which would account for the two different posters. Of course, this is all guesswork, and it is unlikely anyone will ever know the true story, but our explanation does fit all the known facts about these movies and their posters! Condition: good to very good. This poster was linenbacked, but it was either NOT linenbacked by a very talented restorer, or it was linenbacked many years ago, and has received rough handling over the years. You can see signs of the restoration from a distance. This is a poster that would greatly benefit from additional professional restoration. See below for this poster's pre-restoration condition (we are the only major auction company we know of that shares this information with our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). good. There was paper loss at each crossfold and small paper loss, tears, and creases along the foldlines. There was an extra foldline halfway between the middle and bottom foldlines. There is a large circular censor stamp in the top right corner of the image and there are many smudges and creases in the light colored background areas. There were tears, creases, smudges, and areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster. This poster is an ideal candidate for re-linenbacking! If the poster was re-backed, the restorer can surely make the poster's defects much less noticeable, although the poster would probably require a considerable amount of paint restoration in the background areas. Learn More about condition grades 
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