This is a 23" x 34" Danish poster for the 1964 Howard Hawks
film Man's Favorite Sport based on the Pat Frank short story
"The Girl Who Almost Got Away," screenplay by John Fenton Murray and
Steve McNeil and starring Rock Hudson as Roger Willoughby. Plot
summary: Renowned sports fishing expert Roger Willoughby is entered in
a fishing contest by his employer, the Sporting Goods Department at
Abercrombie and Fitch. This creates a major problem for him because
Willoughby has never been fishing in his life.
Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, Pat Frank, Rock Hudson, Paula
Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt, James
Westerfield, Norman Alden, Forrest Lewis, Tyler McVey, Kathie Browne,
Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey, Pat Frank, John Fenton Murray, Steve
McNeil
This is an original 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1953
film The Lawless Breed based on a story by William Alland
adapted from John Wesley Hardin's original autobiographical account,
screenplay by Bernard Gordon and starring Rock Hudson as John Wesley
Hardin. Plot summary: This is story of John Wesley Hardin, an
American gunfighter who left an autobiographical account of his life
with a local newspaper after he was pardoned and released from prison
in 1896 in Huntsville Texas. The film narrates his youthful
attachment to Jane Bond [Mary Castle], the orphan girl with whom he
grew up, the discipline he underwent as the son of authoritarian
religious father [John McIntire], his crooked gambling habits, his
flight from the law after killing a man named Gus Hanley [Michael
Ansara] in self-defense and his participation in a family cattle drive
to Abilene to avoid the authorities. In Abilene he kills Dirk Hanley
[Lee Van Cleef], also in self-defense, then buys a wedding dress for
Jane Bond and takes it back to her at his family home. After Jane is
killed by a posse pursuing Hardin, he spends years on the run with
Rosie McCoy [Julie Adams] before the Texas Rangers catch up with him
in Kansas. The rangers do not catch him there and from Kansas he
moves with Rosie to Pollard Alabama, where he marries her and has a
child with her under the name J. Swain. The rangers arrest him there
and he is tried, convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, though
he insisted until the end the killing was in self-defense.
Cast and crew: Raoul Walsh, William Alland, Bernard Gordon, John Wesley Hardin, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian, Dennis Weaver, Forrest Lewis, Lee Van Cleef, Tom Fadden, Race Gentry, Richard Garland, Glenn Strange, William Pullen
