The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 – US One Sheet
£12,995.00
An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27″ x 41″ [69 x 104 cm])
The Day the Earth Stood Still, the classic 1951 Robert Wise science fiction (sci-fi) alien-contact thriller (“From out of space…. a warning and an ultimatum!”; “Strange power from another planet menaces the Earth!”; from the story by Harry Bates; about a super intelligent alien visiting the Earth, and mankind mistrusts him without reason; he is able to “pass” as a human, and he visits the world’s greatest scientist, and when he is injured and taken to a hospital, he is rescued by his robot Gort) starring Michael Rennie (as Klaatu), Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, and Lock Martin (as Gort the Robot). Note that the unusual music heard in this movie was achieved through the use of the musical instrument called a theramin, and audiences loved the eerie sounds it made, and it became standard in many science fiction movies thereafter to use this instrument in the same way!
The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and just a few very tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds. It had some pinholes around the edges. It had faint red running down the right edge of the blank border (right next to the image and in half of the blank border), which surely is a minor printing defect. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
