Movie Poster Collecting: Carl Foreman

Monday, September 4, 2017

The Key 1958 Sophia Loren Italian locandina

The Key (1958) - (Sophia Loren) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1958 Carol Reed film The Key based on the 1951 Jan de Hartog novel Stella, screenplay by Carl Foreman and starring Sophia Loren as Stella. Plot summary: During World War II Stella is a Swiss expatriate of Italian extraction who occupies a flat in Britain. The flat is also used alternately by a succession of tugboat captains in the Royal Navy, whose job is to rescue British freighters damaged by German U-boat and air attacks. They take turns using the key to the flat and providing for Stella's needs.

Cast and crew: Carol Reed, Jan de Hartog, Carl Foreman, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore,Bernard Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, Noel Purcell, Bryan Forbes, Sidney Vivian, Rupert Davies, Russell Waters, Irene Handl, John Crawford, Jameson Clark

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Monday, August 14, 2017

The Bridge on the River Kwai R1960s (William Holden) Italian locandina

The Bridge on the River Kwai (R1960s) - (William Holden) Italian Locandina

This is an original 13" x 28" Italian locandina poster for a 1960s rerelease of the 1957 David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai based on the 1952 Pierre Boulle novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai, screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson and starring William Holden as Major Shears. Plot summary: In 1943 during World War II a group of British prisoners of war is ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge for the Burma-Siam Railway. Meanwhile a British commando team is moving in with a mission to blow up the bridge. The story is fiction drawn from Pierre Boulle's wartime experience as a laborer in Singapore and Indochina. The film won seven Oscars in 1958 including Best Picture.

Cast and crew: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne, David Lean, Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Keiichirô Katsumoto, M.R.B. Chakrabandhu