Movie Poster Collecting: Dudley Nichols

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Thursday, October 12, 2017

For Whom the Bell Tolls R1960s Gary Cooper Yugoslavian poster

For Whom the Bell Tolls (R1960s) - (Gary Cooper) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19.5"x 27" Yugoslavian poster for the 1943 Sam Wood film For Whom the Bell Tolls based on the 1940 novel of the same title by Ernest Hemmingway, screenplay by Dudley Nichols and starring Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan. Plot summary: In 1930s Spain Robert Jordan is an idealistic soldier of fortune who has joined the rebellion. He is on a dangerous mission to blow up a bridge, but he finds time for romance with Maria [Ingrid Bergman].

Cast and crew: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Ernest Hemmingway (1940 first edition), Sam Wood, Dudley Nichols, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Fortunio Bonanova, Eric Feldary, Victor Varconi, Katina Paxinou, Joseph Calleia, Lilo Yarson, Alexander Granach, Adia Kuznetzoff, Leonid Snegoff

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Sunday, January 17, 2016

She (R1949) - (Helen Gahagan) US Lobby Card

She (1935) - (Helen Gahagan) US Lobby Card

This is an 11" x 14" US lobby card for a 1949 rerelease of the 1935 Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel film She based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard with screenplay by Ruth Rose and Dudley Nichols and starring Helen Gahagan as She. The film usess elements from all of Haggard's books in this series, She, She and Allan, Ayesha, The Return of She and Wisdom's Daughter. In this story She is the "Ageless Ice Goddess," rather than the immortal queen of a slave tribe in a subterranean African kingdom. According to Wikipedia, the She in this film was the ispiration two years later for the evil queen in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Plot summary: Leo Vincey [Randolph Scott] has heard from his uncle that 500 years earlier his ancestors had visited a lost land where the secret of immortality was to be found inside a mystic fire. Vincey sets out with Tanya, [Helen Mack] the daughter of a guide, across the frozen Russian Arctic. They find a hidden civilization called Kor where She rules as immortal queen. She believes Vincey is her long-lost lover and that he is destined to rule with her after she makes him immortal.

Cast and crew: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel, H. Rider Haggard, Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Ruth Rose, Dudley Nichols

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Rawhide (R1956) - (Tyrone Power) US title card

Pictured is a US 11" x 14" title card for a 1956 rerelease of the 1951 Henry Hathaway film Rawhide based on a story by Dudley Nichols and starring Tyrone Power as Tom Owens and Susan Hayward as Vinnie Holt. Plot summary: Rawhide is a desert stagecoach stop where Vinnie Holt finds herself and her niece stranded with the assistant stationmaster Tom Owens after stationmaster Sam Todd [Edgar Buchanan] has been killed by a fugitive murderer named Rafe Zimmerman [Hugh Marlowe] and his three henchmen. Tension runs high while the outlaws wait with their hostages for the next stage so they can rob it, but events take an unexpected turn. Jack Elam is especially good in this film in his role as the deranged outlaw Tevis, who takes an unhealthy interest in Vinnie.

Cast and crew: Henry Hathaway, Dudley Nichols, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Jeff Corey, James Millican, Louis Jean Heydt, William Haade, Milton R. Corey Sr., Kenneth Tobey, Dan White, Max Terhune

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Friday, December 26, 2014

The Tin Star (1957) - (Henry Fonda) Italian two-sheet

Pictured is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster using art by Enzo Nistri to promote the 1957 Anthony Mann film The Tin Star based on a story by Joel Kane and starring Henry Fonda as Morgan Hickman. Plot summary: Morgan Hickman, a bounty hunter who was once a sherrif, agrees to mentor newcomer sheriff Ben Owens [Anthony Perkins] so he can develop competence in his new job.

Cast and crew: Anthony Mann, Joel Kane, Enzo Nistri, Dudley Nichols, Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire, Mary Webster, Peter Baldwin, Richard Shannon, Lee Van Cleef, James Bell, Howard Petrie, Russell Simpson, Hal K. Dawson, Jack Kenney