Movie Poster Collecting: Gino Mangini

Monday, July 4, 2016

Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) - (Steve Reeves) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian one-sheet poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the 1959 Carlo Campogalliani film Goliath and the Barbarians written by Giuseppe Taffarel, Nino Stresa, Emimmo Salvi and Gino Mangini and starring Steve Reeves as Emiliano, AKA Goliath. Plot summary: In 568 AD the Germanic Lombard tribes invade northern Italy in a murderous rampage of theft and destruction. Emiliano is away when his village is attacked but when he returns he launches a war of revenge against the invaders with the help of some of the survivors from his village, including his sister Landa [Chelo Alonso].

Cast and crew: Steve Reeves, Carlo Campogalliani, Giuseppe Taffarel, Nino Stresa, Emimmo Salvi, Gino Mangini, Chelo Alonso, Bruce Cabot, Giulia Rubini, Arturo Dominici, Gino Scotti, Livio Lorenzon, Luciano Marin, Andrea Checchi, Carla Calo, Fabrizio Capucci, Clara Coppola, Cesare Fantoni, Carla Foscari, Veriano Ginesi

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Friday, March 20, 2015

David and Goliath (R1980) - (Orson Welles) Spanish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Spanish one-sheet poster designed by Mauro Mistiano to promote a 1980 rerelease of the 1960 Ferdinando Baldi and Richard Pottier film David and Goliath based on a screenplay by Umberto Scarpelli and Gino Mangini and starring Orson Welles as King Saul. Plot summary: This film tells in Old Testament English the Biblical story from the Book of Samuel of the war between the Philistines and the Israelites in 11th Century B.C. and the divinely ordained rise to the Israelite throne of the shepherd boy David [Ivica Pajer] after he kills Goliath [Aldo Pedinotti].

Cast and crew: Ferdinando Baldi, Richard Pottier, Mauro Mistiano, Orson Welles, Richard Pottier, Gino Mangini, Ambrogio Molteni, Elonora Rossi Drago, Ivica Pajer, Giulia Rubini, Pierre Cressoy