FS: Angels with Dirty Face US OS (Early RR)
Recently I went in on a joint buy with some buddies and we've managed to move everything through EMP except one poster (and a few lobbies that haven't popped up on EMP yet). We really don't know what it would fetch at auction and before we take that risk, I though I would lay it out here. It is a rerelease of some sort but is pretty much the exact same poster as the original release except for the "RERELEASED" text... It is beat to hell and needs restoration.
$800
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$800
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Given Charlie's one is probably the only one I could find (none in Bruce's database or HA's), and it's an exact copy of the original it may even go for more... Bruce's ones are from the 50s, it appears there was a re-release in 1948, likely this one then?
However, on this poster, it IS certainly possible the word "Rereleased" was hand painted on, but Charlie never mentioned that, and I would think he could tell by looking at the actual poster. Also, if he will provide a closeup of the litho number at the bottom (or what those numbers are), then I can almost surely date the poster based on that.
Here is the title card that goes with the (to now) undated 1940s re-release of this movie:
And note that Charlie's poster is definitely NOT from the 1948 re-release, because that went through NSS, and his poster would have a 1948 NSS number if it is from that release, which it does not. Here is the title card from 1948:
Finally, here is another Cagney re-release of a 1935 movie that was re-released in 1944 (we were able to date that one from the litho number on the re-release one-sheet, like I hope to do with Charlie's poster):
Note the small "re-release" next to the Warner Bros.
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I wasn't saying that the re-release card I posted was from the original plates. I just was illustrating the use of "re-release".
Here is Tropic Zone, where it very much DOES appear they used the original plates, but added "re-released" (this time, in a box):
and the original, for comparison:
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But the much larger problem is the painted over gun. Whatever paint Canadian censors used is never removable. It bonds in with the paper, and anything that would take it off would remove the ink too. So that area needs to be painted over and recreated. Doable, but the poster will look dipped in paint. And of course it has many other defects, as well.
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Bottom right:
Bottom Left:
Notice the "G": and not the line headed to the right under the "RERELEASED"...
I wonder if there is a support group out there for me?