This is a 13" x 27" Australian Day Bill for the 1960 Stanley
Kubrick film Spartacus based on the 1951 novel of the same
title by Howard Fast, screenplay by Dalton Trumbo and starring Kirk
Douglas as Spartacus. Plot summary: Sparacus is a Thracian slave who
in 73 BC leads thousands of slaves in a revolt against the Roman
Empire. The slave revolt is ultimately defeated but the remains of
Spartacus are never found.
Cast and crew: Stanley Kubrick, Dalton Trumbo, Howard Fast (novel
1951), Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton,
Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch, John Ireland,
Herbert Lom, John Dall, Charles McGraw, Joanna Barnes, Harold
J. Stone, Woody Strode, Peter Brocco
This is a 29" x 43" Argentine duotone undated rerelease poster for the
1932 Erle C. Kenton film Island of Lost Souls based on the 1896
H.G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, screenplay by
Waldemar Young and Philip Wylie and starring Charles Laughton as
Dr. Moreau. Plot summary: Edward Parker [Richard Arlen] has been
shipwrecked. He is picked up by a freighter on its way to a remote
South Sea island with a shipment of animals. After a dispute the
freighter's captain tosses Parker onto a boat owned by Montgomery
[Arthur Hohl] and Dr. Moreau, who owns the island. After reaching the
island Parker witnesses Dr. Moreau conducting a strange surgical
procedure without anesthesia and decides to leave, but is headed off
by a group of beast-men men emerging from the jungle. Dr. Moreau
tells Parker that Lota [Kathleen Burke], a native woman Parker meets
in a controlled encounter, is the only woman on the island; Moreau
does not mention he has created Lota from from a panther. He
considers Lota his most nearly perfect creation and is pleased to see
her becoming more like a real human because of her attraction to
Parker. To make sure Parker does not go away, Moreau destroys the
boat on which he was to have left the island. Ruth Thomas [Leila
Hyams], Parker's fiancee, learns his whereabouts from the freighter
captain and sets out to find him on the island with the help of
Captain Donahue [Paul Hurst].
Cast and crew: Erle C. Kenton, Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, H.G. Wells, Bela Lugosi, Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl, Stanley Fields, Paul Hurst, Hans Steinke, Tetsu Komai, George Irving
Pictured is a US one-sheet poster designed by Saul Bass to promote the
1962 Otto Preminger film Advise and Consent based on the novel
by Allen Drury with screenplay by Wendell Mayes, starring Henry Fonda.
Plot summary: Scandals rage and mud flies as a president's [Franchot
Tone] candidate for secretary of state [Henry Fonda] faces a tough
Senate investigation to determine if he is qualified.
Cast and crew: Otto Preminger, Allen Drury, Wendell Mayes, Henry Fonda, Allen Drury, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Wendell Mayes, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer
