Movie Poster Collecting: Eduard Franz

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Hatari! 1962 John Wayne Italian locandina

Hatari (1962) - (John Wayne) Italian locandina

This is a 12.5"x 27.5" Italian locandina for the 1962 Howard Hawks film Hatari based on a story by Harry Kurnitz, screenplay by Leigh Brackett and starring John Wayne as Sean Mercer. Plot summary: Sean Mercer has a business in Africa capturing wild animals for sale to zoos. There is a disruption in the routine when photographer Anna Maria D'Allesandra [Elsa Martinelli] joins the group to document its activities.

Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, John Wayne, Leigh Brackett, Harry Kurnitz, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain, Bruce Cabot, Michèle Girardon, Valentin de Vargas, Eduard Franz, Queenie Leonard

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Francis of Assisi (1961) - (Bradford Dillman) US one-sheet

This is US 21" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1961 Michael Curtiz film Francis of Assisi based on the novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis De Wohl, screenplay by Eugene Vale, James Forsyth and Jack W. Thomas and starring Bradford Dillman as Francis Bernadone of Assisi. Plot summary: The film tells the 13th Century story of the life of Francis of Assisi, the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who renounces his his worldy goods to dedicate his life to God. Delores Hart plays the part of Lady Clare of Assisi, who is inspired by Francis to become a nun. Off the screen, Hart actually did become a nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut two years after the film's release. The film covers Assisi's departure from the army at the urging of an inner voice, his imprisonment for desertion, his pardon by Count Paolo of Vandria [Stuart Whitman] at Clare's behest, and then his establishment of an order with the pope's blessing.

Cast and crew: Bradford Dillman, Ludwig Von Wohl, Eugene Vale, James Forsyth, Jack W. Thomas, Michael Curtiz, Louis De Wohl, Eugene Vale, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway, Eduard Franz, Athene Seyler, Finlay Currie, Mervyn Johns, Russell Napier, John Welsh, Harold Goldblatt, Edith Sharpe, Jack Lambert, Oliver Johnston, Malcolm Keen, Pedro Armendariz