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Auction History Result 5p1283 RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE linen Belgian 1944 art of werewolf with Inescort & Foch, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1947 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14 3/4" x 20" [37 x 51 cm]) (Learn More) The Return of the Vampire, the 1943 Lew Landers werewolf vampire monster horror thriller ("Beauty at the mercy of a Monster!"; "Man? Or Monster? Or Both?"; "Terrifying! Paralyzing! Horrifying!"; about an English family who thought they rid themselves of a vampire, but during World War II, German bombs free the monster; it reclaims the soul of its former wolfman servant and plots to take revenge on the family) starring Bela Lugosi (in the title role as the Vampire), Frieda Inescort, Miles Mander, Matt Willis (as the werewolf), and Nina Foch. Note that Columbia would have loved to refer to Bela Lugosi's character as "Dracula", but Universal owned the rights to the character, so they could only refer to him as "the vampire", and he was named "Armand Tesla" (and Matt Willis plays Tesla's werewolf servant!). 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 Belgian poster, and that was 16 years ago. That example has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! Also note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 14 3/4" x 20" [37 x 51 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. About 2" of the poster's blank top was neatly trimmed off. It had rough creases and some tears along both foldlines and some creases and tears in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above (any restorer could likely touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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