This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina for the 1950 Hal Walker
film At War with the Army starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
in their first feature film together. Plot summary: Pfc. Alvin Korvin
[Jerry Lewis] is not cut out for the army and goes from one mishap to
another. He helps First Sergeant Vic Puccinelli [Dean Martin] cope
with some of his problems as a womanizer.
Cast and crew: Hal Walker, James B. Allardice, Fred F. Finklehoffe,
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Jimmie Dundee, Dick Stabile,
Tommy Farrell, Frank Hyers, Danny Dayton, William Mendrek, Kenneth
Forbes, Paul Livermore, Ty Perry, Jean Ruth, Angela Greene, Polly
Bergen
This is a 19" x 27" Yugoslavian poster for the 1966 Michael Gordon
comedy Western Texas across the River written by Wells Root,
Harold Greene and Ben Starr and starring Dean Martin as Sam Hollis.
Plot summary: In 1845 Phoebe Ann Naylor [Rosemary Forsyth] is about to
marry Don Andrea de Baldasar [Alain Delon] in Louisiana, but the
wedding is interrupted and Don Andrea must flee to Texas to get away
from a Cavalry detail avenging the death of a comrade Don Andrea has
killed. In Texas he meets Sam Hollis, who has a job for him.
Cast and crew: Michael Gordon, Wells Root, Harold Greene, Ben
Starr, Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Joey Bishop, Tina
Aumont, Peter Graves, Michael Ansara, Linden Chiles, Andrew Prine,
Stuart Anderson, Roy Barcroft, George Wallace, Don Beddoe, Kelly
Thordsen, Nora Marlowe
This is a 19" x 27" Yugoslavian poster for the 1958 Vincente Minnelli
film Some Came Running based on the 1957 novel by James Jones,
screenplay by John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman and starring Frank
Sinatra as Dave Hirsh. Plot summary: After World War II writer and
former soldier Dave Hirsch becomes a bitter alcoholic who has given up
writing. He returns to his hometown in Parkman Indiana where he
renews connections to old conflicts and unhappy associations; then he
publishes a story and begins to get back on his feet.
Cast and crew: James Jones first edition 1957, Vincente Minnelli,
John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley
MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Leora Dana, Metty
Lou Keim, Larry Gates, Steve Peck, Connie Gilchrist, Ned Wever
his isa 13" x28" Italian locandina poster for the 1968 Phil Karlson
film The Wrecking Crew based on the 1960 novel of the same
title by Donald Hamilton, screenplay by William McGivern and starring
Dean Martin as Matt Helm. Plot summary: Matt Helm has the task of
preventing an evil count from causing a world financial crisis. Freya
Carlson [Sharon Tate] is sent in by I.C.E to help him, but she turns
out to be more of a hindrance.
Cast and crew: Dean Martin, Donald Hamilton (1960 novel), William
P. McGivern, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan, Phil Karlson, Matt
Helm, Tina Louise, Nigel Green, John Larch, John Brascia, Weaver Levy,
Wilhelm von Homburg, Bill Saito, Fuji, Pepper Martin, Ted Jordan
This is a 14" x 28" Italian locandina poster designed by Mario Piovano
of Studio Paradiso for a 1978 rerelease of the 1959 Howard Hawks
film Rio Bravo based on a short story by B.H. McCampbell AKA
Barbara Hawks, screenplay by Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett and
starring John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance. Plot summary: In the
town of Rio Bravo Texas Sheriff John T. Chance has arrested Joe
Burdette [Claude Akins] for murder, but he knows it will be difficult
to keep him in jail because his brother Nathan [John Russell] is
expected to lead an armed assault on the jail to get him out. The
sheriff needs help.
Cast and crew: B.H. McCambell, Barbara Hawks, Howard Hawks, Jules
Furthman, Leigh Brackett, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie
Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Pedro Gonzalez
Gonzalez, Estelita Rodriguez, Claude Akins, Malcolm Atterbury, Carry
Carey Jr.
This isa 14" x28" Italian locandina poster designed by EnricoDe
Seta for the 1967 Henry Levin film The Ambushers based on the
1963 Donald Hamilton novel of the same title and starring Dean Martin
as agent Matt Helm. Plot summary: Sheila Sommars [Janice Rule]
accompanies Matt Helm on a mission to recover a hijacked government
space saucer. Matt is masquerading as a photographer with the job of
photographing some beautiful models.
Cast and crew: Dean Martin, Henry Levin, Donald Hamilton, Enrico De
Seta, Herbert Baker, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, James Gregory, Beverly
Adams, Matt Helm,Kurt Kasznar, David Mauro, Ron Jenson, John Brascia,
Linda Foster, Tomiko Ishizuka, Karin Feddersen, Ulla Lindstrom,
Marilyn Tindall
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1963 Daniel Mann
film Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed written by Jack Rose and
starring Dean Martin as Jason Steele. Plot summary: Jason Steele is a
popular actor who plays a TV role as a physician. Offstage he is
engaged to Melissa Morris [Elizabeth Montgomery] and unsure about
marriage.
Cast and crew: Daniel Mann, Jack Rose, Dean Martin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Martin Balsam, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Macha Meril, Louis Nye, Yoko Tani, Jack Soo, Dianne Foster, Elliott Reid, Johnny Silver, Elisabeth Fraser, Steve Clinton, Daniel Ocko
This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster for the 1968 Henry
Hathaway film Five Card Stud based on a 1967 novel of the
same title by Ray Gaulden, screenplay by Marguerite Roberts and
starring Dean Martin as Van Morgan. Plot summary: In 1880 in the
town of Rincon outside Denver Colorado, after a poker game ends with
the lynching of a man accused of cheating the other players are
murdered one after another.
Cast and crew: Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Hal Wallis, Roddy McDowall,Inger Stevens,Katherine Justice, Henry Hathaway, John Anderson, Ruth Springford, Yaphet Kotto, Denver Pyle, Bill Fletcher, Whit Bissell, Ted de Corsia, Don Collier, Roy Jenson, Marguerite Roberts, Ray Gaulden
This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1965 Billy Wilder
film Kiss Me Stupid from a screenplay by Billy Wilder and
I.A.L. Diamond based on a play by Anna Bonacci and starring Dean
Martin as Dino. Plot summary: In an unexpected detour the pop singer
Dino finds himself in Climax Nevada, where he meets a pair of amateur
songwriters Barney Milsap [Cliff Osmond] and Orville J. Spooner [Ray
Walston]. The two invent a reason to keep Dino in town for a night so
they can try to sell him some of their songs. Orville invites Dino to
stay over with him and his wife Zelda [Felicia Farr]. Being
compulsively possessive and jealous, Orville has second thoughts
because he fears Dino will try to seduce Zelda, so he drives her out
for the night and brings in a prostitute from the Belly Button Road
House named Polly the Pistol [Kim Novak] to pose as his wife. In a
bizarre turn of events, that night the fickle Orville tosses Dino out
so he can sleep with Polly, who has also fallen for the idea of being
a married woman even if just for a night. Dino goes to the Belly
Button and meets Zelda, now a temporary occupant of Polly's trailer.
He thinks Zelda is Polly and finds it easy to seduce her because she
is already a fan; she also sells him one of Orville's songs.
Cast and crew: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Anna Bonacci, Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper, Skip Ward, Doro Merande, Bobo Lewis, Tom Nolan, Alice Pearce, John Fiedler, Arlen Stuart, Howard McNear, Cliff Norton
Pictured is an 11" x 14" #2 lobby card for the 1955 Norman Taurog
film You're Never Too Young starring Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis based on story by Edward Childs Carpenter and Fanny Kilbourne,
screenplay by Sidney Sheldon and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
as Bob Miles and Wilbur Hoolick. Plot summary: Wilbur Hoolick is an
assistant barber at a hotel who is framed as the culprit in a robbery,
but the frame job is botched and he is accidentally left in possession
of the stolen goods. The robbers go after him to recover the lost
take, but he disguises himself as a 12-year-old so he can get a
half-price train ticket to get away from them. This film is a remake
of Billy Wilder's first film The Major and the Minor (1937) in
which Ginger Rogers plays the role played by Jerry Lewis in this one.
Cast and crew: Norman Taurog, Fanny Kilbourne, Edward Childs Carpenter, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall, Veda Ann Borg, Margery Maude, Romo Vincent, Nancy Kulp, Milton Frome, Tor Johnson
