This is an 18.5" x 27" Yugoslavian poster for the 1963 Bud Yorkin
film Come Blow Your Horn based on a play by Neil Simon,
screenplay by Norman Lear and starring Frank Sinatra as Alan Baker.
Plot summary: Alan Baker and his brother Buddy [Tony Bill] are sharing
a Manhattan apartment while enjoying the city's night life and other
pleasures. Alan has an experience that convinces him of the futility
of this hedonistic way of life; he tries without success to get Buddy
to give it up.
Cast and crew: Bud Yorkin, Neil Simon, Norman Lear, Frank Sinatra,
Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John, Dan Blocker,
Phyllis McGuire, Tony Bill, Charles Maier
This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster for the 1954 Rudolph Mate
film The Black Shield of Falworth based losely on the 1891
Howard Pyle novel Men of Iron, screenplay by Oscar Brodney and
starring Tony Curtis as Myles Falworth. Plot summary: In 15th Century
England during the reign of Henry IV Myles Falworth, who has lived in
rural obscurity since childhood because his family has been under a
royal writ of attainder, as a young man is sent to Mackworth Castle in
Derbyshire to fight the Earl of Alban [David Farrar], who has been
conspiring to seize the English Crown.
Cast and crew: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Rudolph Mate, Barbara Rush, David Farrar, Herbert Marshall, Torin Thatcher, Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick O'Neal, Craig Hill, Ian Keith, Doris Lloyd, Rhys Williams, leonard Mudie, Maurice Marsac, Leo Brit
This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster for the 1954
Douglas Sirk film Magnificent Obsession based on the 1929 book
of the same title by Lloyd C. Dougles, screenplay by Wells Root, Sarah
Y. Mason, Victor Heerman and Finley Peter Dunne and starring Rock
Hudson as Bob Merrick. Plot summary: Bob Merrick is a spoiled playboy
who has to be resuscitated using the only resuscitator available on a
lake where he has recklessly lost control of his speedboat. During
Merrick's resuscitation, Dr. Wayne Phillips has a heart attack and
dies because the resuscitator is not available to save him. The
doctors and nurses blame Merrick for inadvertently causing
Dr. Phillips's death. Merrick lives in the shadow of this guilt and
resolves to try to emulate the late Dr. Phillips in fulfillment of his
legacy, but the first thing he does after making this resolution is to
cause Dr. Phillips's widow Helen [Jane Wyman] to be blinded in a
traffic accident. Merrick is in love with Helen and arranges for her
to go to Europe for diagnosis by the world's best eye surgeons, who
declare that she has no hope of recovery. Merrick later becomes an
accomplished brain surgeon by applying Dr. Phillips's secret of
success, as explained by his best friend Edward Randolph [Otto
Kruger]. The application of this secret becomes Merrick's
"magnificent obsession."
Cast and crew: Robert Blees, Wells Root, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, Finley Peter Dunne, Rock Hudson, Douglas Sirk, Lloyd C. Douglas, Jane Wyman, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorhead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Paul Cavanagh, Sara Shane, Richard H. Cutting, Judy Nugent, Helen Kleeb, Rudolph Anders, Fred Nurney, John Mylong, Alexander Campbell
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1958 Hugo Fregonese
film Harry Black and the Tiger starring Stewart Granger as
Harry Black based on the David Walker novel Harry Black with
screenplay by Sydney Boehm. Plot summary: Harry Black is a
professional big game hunter on a mission to kill a tiger in the
Indian jungle that is threatening a nearby village. During the trip
he interacts with Desmond Tanner [Anthony Steel], now married to his
first wife Chris [Barbara Rush].
Cast and crew: Hugo Fregonese, Sydney Boehm, David Walker, Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush, Anthony Steel, I. S. Johar, Martin Stephens, Frank Olegario, KamalaDevi, John Heller, Tom Bowman, Allan McClelland, Harold Siddons, Norman Johns, Gladys Boot, George Curzon, Archie Duncan
