This is a 13" x 28" Italian locandina for the 1970 Luis Buñuel
film Tristana based on the 1892 novel of the same title by
Benito Pérez Galdós and starring Catherine Deneuve as Tristana. Plot
summary: Don Lope [Fernando Rey] becomes the guardian of Tristana when
her monther dies. Don Lope falls in love with his innocent young
charge, but he tells her she is free. He is unprepared when she uses
her freedom to go her own way.
Cast and crew: Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro, Benito Pérez Galdós
(1892 novel), Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero, Fernando Rey, Lola Gaos,
Antonio Casas, Jesús Fernández, Vicente Soler, José Calvo, Fernando
Cebrián, Antonio Ferrandis, José María Caffarel, Candida Losada,
Joaquin Pamplona, Mary Paz Pondal, Juanjo Menéndez
This is a 14" x 21" Belgian poster designed by an unknown artist for
the 1960 Munzio Malassoma film Revolt of the Slaves based on
the 1854 novel Fabiola by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, screenplay
by Stefano Strucchi and Duccio Tessari and starring Rhonda Fleming as
Fabiola. Plot summary: In the 4th Century AD Fabiola is a young
beauty from a noble Roman family who converts to Christianity under
the influence of her slave girl Syra.
Cast and crew: Daniel Mainwaring, Stafano Strucchi, Duccio Tessari,
Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, Rhonda Fleming, Wandisa Guida, Dario Moreno,
Gino Cervi, Rafael Rivelles, Nunzio Malasomma, Ettore Mannil, Fernando
Rey, Serge Gainsbourg, Jose Nieto, Benno Hoffmann, Rainer Penkert,
Antonio Casas, Vanoye Aikens, Dolores Francine, Bert Nelson
Rustler's Rhapsody is a hypothetical movie about a silver screen cowboy. It is a movie the narrator (also Rex O'Herlihan's sidekick) imagines as a 1985 update of the old 1940s cowboy matinee films. The narrator believes if those films were still being made they would be more realistic. He tells us that in a modern film the bad guys wouldn't be such cowards, and Rex wouldn't be so damned perfect all the time! Of course the film is in color, not black and white, and in this more realistic scenario, the hero Rex knows he is playing out a script. Because of that, he knows what will happen! None of the other characters knows, because they're just people in a movie and they don't travel all over the West the way Rex does. When Rex travels from town to town, he rides his wonder horse Wildfire, and he also has a mule with him for hauling his wardrobe wagon. This wagon has a finely crafted cabinet inside with places for four guitars, about 10 different shirts, a stack of spare hats and a drawer for his knives, which he uses to cut pieces from some kind of intoxicating root he always takes along. When Rex arrives in Oakwood Estates, as always when he arrives in a western town he immediately gets into a conflict with the local bad guys. However, the evil power-mad cattle baron (Andy Griffith as colonel Ticonderoga) realizes he is operating under a set of silver screen cowboy rules, one of which is that the bad guys can never win. To solve this problem, he decides to find another good guy (who also rides around in the desert with a wardrobe wagon) to fight Rex. That is where the jaded and confident Rex encounters a first: Something that has never happened before! What will happen when he has to fight another good guy?
As Rustler's Rhapsody begins, Rex sings his theme song "I Ride Alone" to his horse Wildfire and mule as they stand listening beside his wardrobe wagon.
Patrick Wayne and Tom Berenger face off as the two good guys in Rustler's Rhapsody. They know the good guy always wins in B westerns, but which one? They agree that the "most-good good guy" will win. Then Patrick Wayne (as Bob Barber) explains to Berenger (as Rex O'Herlihan the singing cowboy) that one of the requirements for being a good guy is that he has to be a confident heterosexual. From Rex's expression Bob realizes Rex is a virgin and says "well don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm just gonna shoot the guns out of your hands." Rex says "I'd rather you shoot me in the heart!" Bob replies "You know I can't do that!" Rex then says "I can't fight you today," leaves and is met immediately in the street by a disgusted crowd throwing things at him and calling him a coward and a pervert.
