This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $325 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
Eugene O'Neill's The Long Voyage Home, the 1940 John Ford Ireland ocean ship sailor adventure melodrama ("The love of women in their eyes...The salt of the sea in their blood!"; "Loaded with dynamite!"; "This mighty melodrama of the sea... a story of primitive human joys and hatreds as only Eugene O'Neil could write it!"; "America's greatest playwright sets forth the savage emotions of sailormen and waterfront women... in a melodrama tumultuous as the rolling sea itself! Played by a brilliant cast... filmed by the gifted director of 'Stagecoach' and 'The Grapes of Wrath'."; "From a tiny tropic island... girls come aboard a womanless ship!"; "Quick-witted Driscoll, brilliantly played by Thomas Mitchell, Academy Award winner."; "Close-mouthed Smitty [Ian Hunter]... who kept his trouble to himself."; "From a tiny tropic island... Girls come aboard a womanless ship!"; "Eugene O'Neill, America's greatest playwright, reveals the savage emotions of sailormen and waterfront women"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award)
Starring John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Joe Sawyer, Carmen Morales, and Ward Bond
Folded as originally, please note losses to border.