Samson and Delilah 1949 Victor Mature Italian locandina

Samson and Delilah (1949) - (Victor Mature) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1949 Cecil B. Demille film Samson and Delilah based on the 1928 Vladimir Jabotinsky novel Samson, screenplay by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Frederic M. Frank and starring Victor Mature as Samson. Plot summary: The Israelites are enslaved by the Philistines, but Samson, one of the strongest of the Israelites, falls in love with a Philistine woman named Semadar [Angela Lansbury] and then later with her sister Delilah [Hedy Lamarr]. Delilah wants to betray Samson by getting him to reveal the secret of his strength.

Cast and crew: Vladimir Jabotinsky (1928 novel Samson), Jesse Lasky Jr., Fredric M. Frank, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering, Fay Holden, Julia Faye, Russ Tamblyn, William Farnum, Lane Chandler, Moroni Olsen, Francis McDonald, William Davis, John Miljan

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The Light Touch (1951) - (Stewart Granger) Argentine one-sheet

The Light Touch (1951) - (Stewart Granger) Argentine one-sheet

Original 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet poster for the 1951 film "The Light Touch", starring Stewart Granger and Pier Angeli. Plot summary: Art thieves persuade a naive young woman to do some of their dirty work.

Cast and crew: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Richard Brooks, Jed Harris, Tom Reed, Kurt Kasznar, Joseph Calleia, Larry Keating, Rhys Williams, Normal Lloyd, Mike Mazurki, Ben Astar

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The Jungle Book (R1984) - (Disney Animation) US one-sheet

The Jungle Book (R1984) - (Disney animation) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for a 1984 rerelease of the 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman film The Jungle Book based on Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in his book by the same title as the film, screenplay by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson and Vance Gerry and starring Phil Harris as the voice of Baloo the bear and the director's son Bruce Reitherman as Mowgli. This was the last film produced by Walt Disney, who died in 1966 during production. Plot summary: Bagheera the black panther [Sebastian Cabot] finds Mowgli in a basket in the jungle and takes him to a mother wolf so she can raise him with her cubs. A few years later when they hear a man-eating bengal tiger named Shere Khan [George Sanders] has returned to the jungle, the wolves realize Mowgli must return to his own kind for safety. Bagheera volunteers to take him to the man-village, but Mowgli does not want to go because he prefers life in the jungle. Mowgli gets support from Baloo the bear, who promises to continue with his upbringing. Bagheera soon talks Baloo out of this idea after a few mishaps and Mowgli runs away, angry with Baloo. Shere Khan hears of this and decides he will hunt Mowgli down and kill him personally. After Mowgli has a close call with Shere Khan, Bagheera and Baloo finally take him to the man-village; Mowgli is unwilling to go there at first but he is lured in by a beautiful young girl [Darleen Carr].

Cast and crew: Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, Vance Gerry, Rudyard Kipling, Wolfgang Reitherman, Sebastian Cabot, Bruce Reitherman, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, Louis Prima, J. Pat O'Malley, Verna Felton, Clint Howard, Chad Stuart, Lord Tim Hudson, John Abbott, Ben Wright, Darleen Carr

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Endless Night (1967) - (Hayley Mills) Belgian poster

Endless Night (1910) - (Hayley Mills) Belgian poster

Pictured is a 14" x 22" Belgian poster for the 1971 Sidney Gilliat film Endless Night based on the 1967 novel by Agatha Christie with screenplay by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills as Fenella 'Ellie' Thomsen. Plot summary: Ellie is a wealthy heiress who helps her new husband Michael Rogers [Hywell Bennett] realize his dream of owning a magnificent home at a favorite spot on England's Devon coast. However they build on a piece of land called 'Gypsy's Acre' that is believed to be cursed. After Ellie is killed in a horse riding accident, Michael struggles to recover despite being haunted by her image while new backstory details emerge about Ellie and her friend Greta [Britt Ekland].

Cast and crew: Hayley Mills, Agatha Christie, Hywell Bennett, George Sanders, Britt Ekland, Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Per Oscarsson, Aubrey Richards, Ann Way, Patience Collier, Peter Bowles, Lois Maxwell, David Bauer, Helen Horton, Madge Ryan, Windsor Davies, Walter Gotell

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Cairo (1963) - (George Sanders) US one-sheet

Cairo (1963) - (George Sanders) US one-sheet

Pictured is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1963 Wolf Rilla film Cairo based on a novel by W.R. Burnett, screenplay by Joan Scott and starring George Sanders as The Major. This film is a remake of the 1950 John Huston film The Asphalt Jungle based on the novel by W.R. Burnett. The woman pictured on the poster is the film's principal dancer, Nahed Sabri. Plot summary: On a visit to Cairo fresh out of a German prison, the Major tries to resurrect an old plan to steal the jewels from the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Cairo Museum but there are unexpected problems when he tries to abscond after the robbery.

Cast and crew: Wolf Rilla, W. R. Burnett, George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, John Meillon, Ahmed Mazhar, Eric Pohlmann, Walter Rilla, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Salah Nazmi, Shouweikar, Mona, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Said Abu Bakr, Salah Mansour, Mohamed El Sayed, Youssef Chaban, Ezzat El Alaili, Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Nahed Sabri, Aziza Hassan

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Cairo 1963 (George Sanders)

Half Sheet for the 1963 Wolf Rilla film Cairo

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This film was a remake of John Huston's 1950 Asphalt Jungle, based on the novel by W.R. Burnett. Most reviewers have considered it much inferior to the Huston version.

The cast was George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, John Meillon, Ahmed Mazhar, Eric Pholmann, Walter Rilla, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Salah Nazmi, Shouweikar, Mona, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Said Abu Bakr, Salah Mansour, Mohamed El Sayed, Youssef Chaban, Ezzat El Alaili, Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Nahed Sabri and Aziza Hassan.

Some people may recognize the names Ahmed Mazhar (who was Saladin in the 1961 Youssef Chahine film Salah al-Din the Victorious) and Kamal Al-Shennawi, who has had a career of great prominence in Egyptian cinema for over 50 years. Salah Mansour had a role in this film as a doctor, but I will always associate him with his later role as the lecherous ill-fated village mayor in the 1967 Salah Abouseif film The Second Wife.

This film is interesting to me because it was made in Cairo and includes so much important Egyptian talent. The only Egyptian name on the poster is Faten Hamama, who was Egypt's most important actress at the time, married to Omar Sharif. Some people think the dancer pictured on the poster must be Hamama, but the dancer is actually the film's first dancer, Nahed Sabri, who is not named on the poster.

Nahed Sabri on the cover of the 19 September 1961 issue of Al-Kawakeb

Faten Hamama appears on one of the lobby cards:

Faten Hamama bidding farewell to George Sanders in a scene from the film. She was a major star in Egypt at that time, but in the lobby card caption she is identified simply as "Egyptian girl Faten Hamama."

She is also pictured in one of my film stills:

Faten Hamama as Amina sitting at the bedside of an injured George Sanders in his role as The Major

Faten Hamama shown (upper right) speaking with Cecil B. DeMille in the 19 October 1954 issue of Al-Kawakeb

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