Movie Poster Collecting: Doris Schroeder

Sunday, December 18, 2016

The Fighting Texan (1947) - (William Boyd) Mexican one-sheet

This listing uses the English Title given on the poster, but the 1947 name of the film this poster was intended to advertise was originally Strange Gamble, AKA El Texano Intrepido. The title Fighting Texan shown on the poster was the 1952 US TV title. Plot summary: While investigating a counterfeiting case, Hoppy discovers that the counterfeiter is actually a good guy being held hostage by criminals who are forcing him to do the printing.

Cast and crew: George Archainbaud, Doris Schroeder, William Boyd, Elaine Riley, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Lewis J. Rachmil, Clarence E. Mulford, Jemas Craven, Robert Williams, Alberto Morin, Joel Friedkin, Herbert Rawlinson, Francis McDonald, William F. Leicester, Joan Barton, Lee Tung Foo

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Fool's Gold (1947) - (William Boyd) Mexican rerelease one-sheet

Fool's Gold (1947) - (William Boyd) Mexican one-sheet

This is a 27" x 37" Mexican one-sheet poster for the 1947 george Archainbaud film Fool's Gold AKA Twin Buttes based on a screenplay by Doris Schroeder and starring William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy. Plot summary: Lieutenant Bruce Landy [Steve Barclay] has deserted the army to avoid facing a court martial after striking his commanding officer in a fit of temper. As a favor to his friend, who is Bruce's father Colonel Jed Landy [Forbes Murray], Hopalong Cassidy goes looking for Bruce in a place called Twin Buttes. Hoppy and his pals California Carlson [Andy Clyde] and Lucky Jenkins [Rand Brooks] then learn of another shady operation not far away where a gang is making copper bricks covered with a thin coating of gold.

Cast and crew: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Jane Randolph, Hopalong Cassidy, Doris Schroeder, Clarence E. Mulford, Robert Emmett Keane, Steve Barclay, Harry Cording, Earle Hodgins, Robert Bentley, William Davis, Forbes Murray, Glen B. Gallagher, Ben Corbett, Fred Toones