poster on linen PANDORA & THE FLYING DUTCHMAN 1951 ORIGINAL UK QUAD LINENBACKED

Description: Original BRITISH QUAD (30x40.5 inches) COUNTRY OF ORIGIN "COO" (Romulus Films), used for marketing the film to cinemas in the UNITED KINGDOM in 1951. GOOD+ Condition. A restored poster with good color and a very presentable appearance. The poster has age-appropriate and vintage, natural edge and fold wear. Professionally backed on linen, the poster displays very well. Touchup, airbrushing, and replacement throughout has addressed pinholes, creases, chips, tears, fold separation, and paper loss. Displays very well. Linen border is one to two inches outside poster border. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY, a CERTAINTY. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you.1951. Directed by Albert Lewin, Cinematography by JACK CARDIFF, still photos by MAN RAY. TAGLINE : "The woman of the year in the picture of the year!" - A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain. In a little Spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 1930s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, a mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted to Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him... "Esperanza", the name of the fishing village, is the Spanish for 'hope' which was the only thing left after Pandora opened her box in the Greek myth. "Van der "Zee means "of the sea" in Dutch. CAST includes James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, John Laurie, Marius Goring, Christiana Forbes, Mario Cabre, Pamela Mason, Abraham Sofaer, Dylan Thomas. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : Ava Gardner says in her autobiography that the actor Mario Cabré, who plays the bullfighter in love with her in the movie, wanted to do the same in real life. According to her, he was a real pain in the ass. The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas showed up for the location shoot of the race car speed test on the beach at Pendine Sands, which was near his home in Wales. He can be spotted briefly at the start of the scene, around 1:11:03-04, as the hatless man in the brown jacket and beige trousers at the extreme left of the crowd in the background (ignoring the family of three on the left) almost one-third of the picture's width in from the left. This is the first known surviving motion picture footage of Thomas. When cinematographer Jack Cardiff met with Ava Gardner to discuss how she wanted to be shot, Gardner had an unusual request for him. She asked him to watch out for when she started menstruating as there is an acidity to a woman's skin that a camera can pick up. Cardiff took note. Many consider this film to capture Gardner's beauty better than any other film she made. Photographed in the English Technicolor process by Jack Cardiff, this film is considered one of the most beautiful colour films ever made. Famed surrealist artist, Man Ray did the paintings and designed the chess set, which now is housed in the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago. Made on a budget of $1,500,000. Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. VIEWER COMMENT : "A must-see for Gardner and Mason fans. The extraordinary use of Technicolor gives the whole picture an almost dream like ethereal look and many scenes have an almost surreal quality. Ava Gardner is spellbinding - I can't think of any actress today who could carry her role as convincingly."

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