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Auction History Result m192 FIRST MAN INTO SPACE three-sheet movie poster '59 Marshall Thompson Date Sold 10/11/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 41" x 81") (Learn More) First Man Into Space, the 1959 Robert Day science fiction (sci-fi) rocket astronaut horror thriller ("It leaps ahead of the headlines!"; "The Picture That Leaps Ahead of the Headlines! Never before! The First picture that takes You into space! MGM presents the Astounding Drama of what happens when a fearless test pilot leaves his sweetheart and friends to dare the unknown!"; "The most dangerous and daring mission of all time!"; "You read about them! Facts like these come to life! Now you see them in action, those who dare the unknown."; "'He's asking for intercontinental priority!'"; "'If he weren't piloting Y-13, he'd risk his life in something else. He had to find his own brand of danger!'"; "'He'll orbit the earth for the rest of his life!'"; "She knew that her greatest rival was his burning ambition to be The First Man Into Space!"; "Just released from top secret! You have never seen anything like this before because the actual scenes have just been released from top secret."; "What do you think? Who can say what strange mysteries await the daring pioneers who venture into hitherto forbidden and uncharted regions of the outer world."; "First motion picture to lift the veil, foresee the future in a spectacular drama of the first man in history to be rocketed into the terrifying unknown of outer space!") starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Bill Nagy, Robert Ayres, and Sheree Winton (as the "nurse at blood bank"). Note that there is a REAL mystery to the German release of this movie! For the "Das Neue" program, they put an image of scantily clad Sheree Winton (who played the nurse at the blood bank) on the front cover and a second image of her on the back cover! This was not true of the other German program from "Film Buhne", and she is not featured on any other advertising we have seen! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 the collector who owned this three-sheet (and five others that we are selling as separate items this week on eBay) taped or glued the two sections of the poster together, and put tape on several of the seams (for reinforcement) and then rolled the poster and stored it in a tube. He would take one of the posters and display it on his wall, and then occasionally take that one down, replace it in the tube, and display a different one (this method of displaying the posters was certainly inexpensive, and saved him the cost of a frame!). The downside to this is that the posters can no longer be folded, and in some cases the tape (or glue) has bled through to the front to some degree. For each of these six posters, we have described the amount of tape (or glue) on the reverse, and the effect it has had on the front. In all six cases, it would be an easy matter for any talented restorer to remove the tape (and/or glue) from the back and mount the poster on linen. After proper linenbacking and restoration of any defects, the poster would look wonderful! But please do not bid on this poster (or the other five similar three-sheets) unless you have read the above and understand it. Of course, we will need to send this poster in a tube, as it cannot be folded. Condition: very good. The two sections of the poster were taped together, first with a line of clear tape across the back of the poster, then a line of clear tape across the front of the poster, and finally with wide clear tape over the back seam. Many of the crossfolds have plastic tape on the reverse, and if there was tiny paper loss, the collector put a small piece of white paper over the paper loss before putting the tape on it, so that the white paper shows from the front, and not the tape. Some of the pieces of tape on the back have yellowed and have slightly bled through to the back. The clear tape across the seam of the front of the poster running through the top of the letters of the word "MAN" in the title has darkened somewhat, and the clear tape running through the middle of the letters from the back has bled through somewhat. Any talented restorer could surely remove the tape from the back (and the single line of tape on the front that runs through the title) and after linenbacking and restoration, the poster would look great, but it would surely require some paint restoration across the title area, but little anywhere else. Learn More about condition grades 
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