What are your thoughts on the re-release date of your High Sierra daybill Chris? Love The Brighton Strangler daybill.
Hondo
I don't have much to add as I have not done all that much research on it. It is clearly a re-release as you state. Bruce (and Heritage) originally had it listed as "40s release" but Bruce later refined this to being an R1952 based on an e-mail from a "knowledgeable collector".
It's an oddity being a Warner Bros. but printed in the RKO/Simmons format...
You have any more information on it?
I just read Bruce's comment and he doesn't appear to say the collector said it was a 1952 RR. I think Bruce has based the 1952 as being the year as there was a U.S.re- release in that year. I have researched the film and I believe it is from an Australian 1954 re-release from what I have turned up.
Hondo.
Thank you. I recall that the description I mentioned was in the actual auction listing which does not always make it over into the Auction History archive.
From memory you did day that most of your daybills came from New Zealand. We couldn't have a near naked woman lying down and appearing in a seductive pose, on which was originally an Australian rated ''For General Exhibition'' film, in New Zealand could we ?
The problem appears in be in destinations where the countries in question didn't print the film posters themselves, and only released them, e.g. New Zealand and Ireland. New Zealand imported the majority of there posters from Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. and Ireland used posters from England. Both New Zealand and Ireland had separate censorship in place so more than often they deemed it necessary to censor posters when required.
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Not it in the best of shape and the vigilant amongst you might spot a rather discrete white label!