Original Item: Only One Available. This is an original 1945 dated single sheet theatrical release poster for the film A Guy, A Gal and a Pal which was a 1945 Budd Boetticher World War II military comedy starring Ross Hunter, Lynn Merrick, and Ted Donaldson. The poster is offered in excellent condition and comes professionaly framed. It framed poster measures approximately 29″ x 2″ x 42.5″.
As she is about to head East for Washington, D.C. to marry socially prominent Granville Breckenridge, Helen Carter discovers that her fiancé has forgotten to make a train reservation for her and her nephew Butch, and hence they are stranded at the train station. While Helen calls Granville on the phone, Butch meets U.S. Marine Jimmy Jones, who offers to buy the boy a banana split. By the time Helen finds Butch at the soda fountain, the boy has related their tale of woe to Jimmy, who arranges for them to share his compartment to Washington. Jimmy is traveling to Washington to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, and when his fellow passengers recognize his picture in the newspaper, they all rush to congratulate him and assume that Helen is his wife and Butch, his son. When Jimmy declines to join his “wife” in her sleeping car that night, the news sweeps throughout the train, and a general…
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