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Auction History Result 4j011 39 STEPS WC '35 Alfred Hitchcock, art of Robert Donat silencing Madeleine Carroll, rare! Date Sold 12/8/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Thirty-Nine Steps, the classic 1935 Alfred Hitchcock English London romantic kidnapping murder mystery espionage spy crime thriller ("Handcuffed to the girl who double-crossed him"; "The 'Monte Cristo' hero.. The Man who put the Man in roMANce"; "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Director of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much"; "A hundred steps ahead of any picture this year"; from the novel by John Buchan; perhaps Alfred Hitchcock's best movie ever; there are too many wonderful plot twists and clever moments to describe here, but everyone should see this excellent movie!) starring Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Gus McNaughton, Jerry Verno, and Wylie Watson 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 first release U.S. posters of any sort from this movie are extremely rare. We have never seen or heard of this window card (with a great different image not seen on any of the other posters) before! Also note that this poster has been paperbacked.
UPDATED 12/08/2013: Note that a very long time collector tells us that there was a 39 Steps window card auctioned at Sotheby's in 2000, and that he believes it was the very same window card that is currently being auctioned (although it has had additional restoration since that time). He also says there was one at auction in 1992, but he doesn't know if that one was a different example either (it is quite possible that this same card has been auctioned twice before, and that it is the only example known). Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Prior to paperbacking, the card was cut in half on a diagonal, starting in the upper left border and running through Donat's hand, through his suit, and ending near the middle of the right border. The card had some faint stains, smudges, and scuffs scattered in the image and some pinholes, tears, and tiny paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was nicely backed (the two pieces were joined together and there has been paint restoration scattered in the image), but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects (but from a reasonable viewing distance, the card looks great!). Learn More about condition grades 
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