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BOOT POLISH
Mexican poster '58 Raj Kapoor, poor orphans learn to shine shoes instead of beg

An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Mexican Movie Poster
(measures 23 1/2" x 31 1/4" [60 x 79 cm])

Raj Kapoor's Boot Polish, the 1954 (released in the U.S. in 1958) Prakash Arora Indian juvenile family relationship orphans poverty melodrama (produced by Raj Kapoor; about a pair of young children whose mother dies and the father goes to prison, and they are sent to live with their aunt who is a prostitute, and she sets them out begging, but they meet a man who helps them start to give shoe-shines, and that improves their life until the monsoon season, when no one gets shoe-shines, and they are separated, and the girl is adopted by a rich family, but she doesn't know what became of her brother) starring Kumari Naaz, Rattan Kumar, David Abraham, Chand Burke, and Veera. Note that this is a classic example of what is known today as "Bollywood", movies made in India about Indians with all Indian cast and crews. It obviously owes a huge debt to Vittorio De Sica's 1946 "Sciuscia" (Shoeshine), with a similar plot, but this apparently is a really excellent movie, and the child actors, who were quite young when the movie was filmed, do an excellent job.
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This poster is folded but has no vertical fold, therefore it will be sent rolled in a tube.
Condition: very good.