Description: 1 Sheet Movie Poster - Military Issue
Year: 1949
Condition: Very fine to Near mint
Dimension: 27" x  41"
Genre: Drama/ War

Note: This is a very rare military issue movie poster from the original release in 1949. This poster was folded into a pamphlet size brochure for mailing as it was its own mailing piece, like a map you'd buy of a town in a local store. It had printing on the entire back side which cannot be seen now as the poster has been linenbacked. Very few of these this beautiful posters survived and although military posters are usually very poor quality much of the time this poster is awesome and just as nice and quite different from the regular final style.

Item Description:

• Original
• One Sheet
• Single-Sided
• Military issue
• Linenbacked

This is an original SS or single-sided one sheet movie poster that has printing on the front side only.

This movie art item is an authentic original piece. Original movie art items are valued by collectors worldwide and can increase in value over time.

Synopsis:
From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has become exceedingly bitter and tough, leading his contemporaries to question his behavior and his men to dislike him for his harsh training methods. The wisdom of Stryker's ways, however, is demonstrated when they fight in the legendary battle of Iwo Jima. Using footage of real WWII battles, the Sands of Iwo Jima features John Wayne's first Academy Award-nominated performance, though Broderick Crawford ultimately won the 1950 Best Actor prize.

Cast: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell, Arthur Franz, Julie Bishop, James Brown, Richard Webb, James Holden, Peter Coe, Richard Jaeckel, Bill Murphy, George Tyne, Hal Fieberling, John McGuire, Martin Milner, Leonard Gumley, Bill Self, H. Hayes Bradley, Capt. Harold G. Schrier U.S.M.C., David Clarke, Col. D.M. Shoup U.S.M.C., Bruce Edwards, The Three Living Survivors of the Fla, Dorothy Ford, Don Haggerty, Gil Herman, I. Stanford Jolley, Lt.Col. H.P. Crowe U.S.M.C., Dick Wessel, Dick Jones, John Whitney; Director: Allan Dwan