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Auction History Result 5r0910 SUNDOWNERS 1sh 1961 Australians Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum & Peter Ustinov! Date Sold 12/21/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Laminated One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Sundowners, the 1961 Fred Zinnemann (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English/Australian Australia horse racing gambling sheep-raising-and-shearing family relationship melodrama ("Here come 'The Sundowners'! They're real people, fun people, fervent people. They have a tremendous urge to keep breathing. Their rousing story comes roaring across six thousand miles of excitement..."; "Across Six Thousand miles of excitement... Across a whole world of adventure comes the rousing story of real people called 'The Sundowners'!"; "Filmed in Australia - you are part of its blazing excitement... its elemental drama... its rousing laughter, all of which made 'The Sundowners' the year's record-shattering tops in entertainment!"; based on the novel by Jon Cleary; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Deborah Kerr (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Molly Urquhart 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 something VERY UNUSUAL about it. What is that? The person who owned it had a home movie theater, and they had a large collection of one-sheets, and they would display them when they showed the movie, and they needed a way to protect the posters while they were being handled, and keep them from being damaged while on display. He came up with a solution that we have not seen before. He had a thin sheet of laminate plastic placed over the BACK of each one-sheet, BUT NOT ON THE FRONT (as is normally done when laminating the poster). If you have ever seen "laminated" posters, they are often covered with very thick plastic material on both sides. THE LAMINATE PLASTIC USED HERE IS A THIN MATERIAL. While we have never seen this before, it actually works well! The front of the poster is no different then it was, but the plastic on the back greatly helps protect the poster from tears or other defects (this is the same principle that was used decades ago when they would kraftback posters moving from theater to theater, and as with kraftbacking, the posters with this laminate plastic on the back CAN be folded as normal, as this poster was). WE DON'T KNOW HOW EASY OR HARD IT WOULD BE TO REMOVE THE PLASTIC FROM THE BACK (although there are a few where the plastic is separating, indicating it surely CAN be done), but the buyer of this poster will have two options. They can either keep the poster exactly as is, and if they display it, no one will even know about the plastic laminate on the back, or they can have a restorer remove it. Either way, DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THAT IT HAS THIS ON THE BACK (but NOT on the front). Condition: good. The poster has laminate plastic on the back only (see above: but NOT on the front). Otherwise the poster has some fairly minor wear (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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