The Red Beret (1953) - (Alan Ladd) Egyptian one-sheet

The Red Beret (1953) - (Alan Ladd) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster by an unknown designer for the 1953 Terence Young film The Red Beret AKA Paratrooper based on the 1950 Hilary St. George Saunders novel The Red Beret, screenplay by Richarid Maibaum and Frank S. Nugent and starring Alan Ladd as Steve "Canada" MacKendrick. Plot summary: The film is about the World War II exploits of an American named Steve MacKendrick, who in 1940 pretends he is Canadian and volunteers for the British Army's Paratroop School. He takes part in a raid on the German radar station at Bruneval and then an attack in North Africa on an airfield at Bône.

Cast and crew: Terence Young, Richard Mabaum, Frank S. Nugent, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston, Anthony Bushell, Patric Doonan, Stanley Baker, Lana Morris, Tim Turner, Michael Kelly, Anton Diffring, Thomas Heathcote, Carl Duering, John Boxer

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - (Steve Martin) US one-sheet

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - (Steve Martin) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 40' one-sheet poster for the 1982 Carl Reiner film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid based on a story by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin and starring Steve Martin as private investigator Rigby Reardon. Plot summary: The dialogue and events of the film are assembled in a collage to make a new story from 18 vintage noir films, to which it both pays tribute and spoof. With the help of Phillip Marlowe [Humphrey Bogart] Reardon investigates the cause of the mysterious auto crash that has killed John Hay Forrest [George Gaynes]; he is hired to do this by Forrest's daughter Juliet [Rachel Ward], with whom he also falls in love. Rigby's affection for Rachel threatens to derail his professional objectivity as a criminal plot slowly emerges to destroy the world with deadly cheese mold.

Csst and crew: Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, George Gaynes, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold

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