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Auction History Result 2a054 MALTESE FALCON linen Italian 2p R1962 Humphrey Bogart, Lorre, different Stefano art, rare! Date Sold 12/8/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1962 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Two-Panel (known in Italy as a "4 Fogli") Movie Poster (2p; measures 55" x 78" [140 x 198 cm]) (Learn More) The Maltese Falcon, the classic 1941 John Huston romantic detective crime film noir ("A story as explosive as his blazing automatics"; "Based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, Author of 'The Thin Man'"; "Screen Play by John Huston"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Humphrey Bogart (as Sam Spade), Mary Astor (as Brigid O'Shaughnessy), Gladys George (as Iva Archer), Peter Lorre (as Joel Cairo), Barton MacLane (as Lt. Dundy), Lee Patrick (as Effie), Sydney Greenstreet (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Kasper Gutman), Ward Bond (as Tom Polhaus), Jerome Cowan (as Miles Archer), and Elisha Cook Jr. (as Wilmer Cook, the "gunsel"). Note that this was the SECOND re-make of this movie (it had been made in 1931 under the original title, and in 1936 as "Satan Met a Lady", starring Bette Davis in the lead role, but it was THIS version by John Huston, with his screenplay that closely followed the Dashiell Hammett novel, with superlative acting, which is an all-time classic) Note that some of the U.S. posters for this movie used images of Bogart from the 1941 film "High Sierra" (the same is true of some posters for "All Through the Night"!). Note that in all three of these movies (The Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, and High Sierra), Humphrey Bogart only got the lead part because George Raft turned down the lead in all three! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: G. Di Stefano Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Italian two-panel! It is one of the only posters from any country and from any release of this movie that actually shows the Maltese Falcon figurine, and of course, this poster has a great image of the four principal characters gathered around it. Interestingly, the one-panel from this same 1962 Italian re-release does NOT have an image like this at all, although the locandina from that re-release does have the same image as this poster (but of course, it is many times smaller than this). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had paper loss at some crossfolds, with creases, tears, and small paper loss on parts of several folds. It had pinholes, tears, and small paper loss around the edges. 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. Obviously, one would prefer to find an unrestored example of this poster in better condition, but we have never auctioned one, and it might be many years, if ever, before we do, and the poster will display well on the new owner's wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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