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Auction History Result 6h0591 RIVER OF NO RETURN linen French 15x30 1954 different art of Marilyn Monroe & raft, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French Movie Poster (measures 14 1/2" x 30 1/4" [37 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) River of No Return, the 1954 Otto Preminger romantic love triangle adventure musical melodrama ("Monroe meets Mitchum in the most savage wilderness of all the Americas!"; "You ride the churning rapids of Devil's Teeth! You fight your way out of Thunder Gorge and Cree ambush! You cross the granite-walled Rockies! You're swept up by the swirling 'white waters' of the Maligne, Bow and Snake Indian Rivers... As Monroe and Mitchum meet, fight and love!"; "Only yesterday I was the honky-tonk dancer, the gambler's doll."; "He was the frontier-blazer, a man used to taking what he wanted..."; "Here, we sensed our over-powering loneliness."; "In the wonder of High-Fidelity Directional-Stereophonic Sound"; "Engulfs you in a flood of excitement!"; "And she can sing too!"; "From a story by Louis Lantz"; about a saloon singer and her gambler husband, who are rafting in Canada to register a mining claim; they are rescued by a farmer and his young son, and the cowardly gambler deserts his wife, and she, the farmer, and the son have to fend off an Indian attack) starring Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun, Tommy Rettig, Murvyn Vye, and Douglas Spencer. Note that Marilyn Monroe was injured during the violent river rafting scene, and she walked on crutches through the rest of the filming! 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 one example of this first release French poster, and that was 8 years ago! Also note that there is a tiny "7/54 Depot legal 54/3" with "23970" by that at the bottom of the poster. This means that this poster is from the first release in 1954, and that this is the third time the poster was printed. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had minor wear on the folds, with pinholes and small tears in the corners and a few small tears in the lower right border by the second "R" of "RETOUR" and in the center of the top border in the white 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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