Movie Poster Collecting: Claude Dauphin

Friday, March 18, 2016

The Tenant (1976) - (Roman Polanski) US one-sheet

The Tenant (1976) - (dir: Roman Polanski) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1976 Roman Polanski film The Tenant AKA Le Locataire based on the 1964 Roland Topor novel Le Locataire chimerique, screenplay by Gerard Brach and Roman Polanski and starring Roman Polanski as Trelkovsky. This is the last film in Polanski's Apartment Trilogy after Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. Plot summary: Trelkovsky rents an apartment in Paris previously occupied by an Egyptologist named Choule who has attempted suicide. Trelkovsky finds his new environment a difficult adjustment because of the strange people around him; he begins hallucinating and taking on some of their characteristics.

Cast and crew: Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Shelley Winters, Roman Polanski, Roland topor, Gerald Brach, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova, Claude Dauphin, Claude Pieplu, Rufus, Romain Bouteille, Jacques Monod, Patrice Alexsandre, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Hard Contract (1969) - (James Coburn) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" poster for the 1969 S. Lee Pogostin film Hard Contract based on story and screenplay by S. Lee Pogosin and starring James Coburn as John Cunningham. Plot summary: John Cunningham is a CIA contract assassin who receives a contract for three kills, two in Spain and Belgium and a third at an unknown location. After the first two kills he has feelings of remorse and hesitates taking on the third assignment--a former CIA hit man named Michael Carson [Sterling Hayden]. His handler Ramsey Williams [Burgess Meredith] threatens to kill him and his jet setter friend Sheila Metcalfe [Lee Remick] if he does not do the job.

Cast and crew: S. Lee Pogostin, James Coburn, Lee Remick, Burges Meredith, Sterling Hayden, Lilli Palmer, Patrick Magee, Claude Dauphin, Helen Cherry, Karen Black, Sabine Sun