The Black Cat – Boris Karloff Bella Lugosi – 1934

In 2009, this ultra rare poster for the Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi horror movie The Black Cat was put up for auction. It is thought to be the only surviving copy and hadn’t even been seen in public until 2009. The Black Cat poster is from the legendary collection of Todd Feiertag who set the current world’s record price for a movie poster a decade ago with the $453,500 sale of a one-sheet for 1932’s The Mummy in 1997.

This incredibly rare one sheet poster for The Black Cat,  is even more rare than one sheets for films such as The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein.

The film The Black Cat – Edgar G. Ulmer’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale – marked the first and finest collaboration between the two acknowledged masters of early horror, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and the result was a masterpiece of psychological terror as a young couple finds themselves caught in a deadly game between the two famous actors. 

The Black Cat poster went up for auction with a guide price of $250,000 but sold for a staggering $334.600 making it the fourth most expensive poster in the world at the time.

Our posters are carefully and professionally created from vintage originals. Whilst great care is taken in the production of these posters, we also try to maintain a vintage feel, so there may be small imperfections, fold marks, scuffs, tears or marks that were part of the original poster master. If these do appear they should be visible on the larger views of the item on this listing. The originals of many of the posters we offer can cost many thousands of pounds, so whilst these posters look great, especially framed and mounted on a wall, they are intended as a fun, affordable reproductions and not intended fine art prints.

The 50x70cm version has been specially produced to be used in conjunction with Ikea’s 50x70cm Ribba picture frame which currently retails for around £12. So you can bag a print and frame for a great price.