Showing posts with label H. Rider Haggard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H. Rider Haggard. Show all posts

Saturday, July 8, 2017

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - (Sean Connery) Egyptian one-sheet

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - (Sean Connery) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 26.5" x 38" Egyptian poster for the 2003 Stephen Norrington film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen based on a screenplay by James Robinson and starring Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain. Plot summary: Allan Quatermain, a fictional character created by H. Rider Haggard, comes to life in this fantasy set in the 19th Century and leads a team of other legendary figures with special powers in a fight against a madman known as The Fantom, who is engaging in technological terror.

Cast and crew: Stephen Norrington, H. Rider Haggard, James Robinson, Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemying, Richard Roxburgh, Max Ryan, Tom Goodman-Hill, David Hemmings, Terry O'Neill, Rudolf Pellar, Robert Willox, Robert Orr



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Sunday, January 17, 2016

She (R1949) - (Helen Gahagan) US Lobby Card

She (1935) - (Helen Gahagan) US Lobby Card

This is an 11" x 14" US lobby card for a 1949 rerelease of the 1935 Lansing C. Holden and Irving Pichel film She based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard with screenplay by Ruth Rose and Dudley Nichols and starring Helen Gahagan as She. The film usess elements from all of Haggard's books in this series, She, She and Allan, Ayesha, The Return of She and Wisdom's Daughter. In this story She is the "Ageless Ice Goddess," rather than the immortal queen of a slave tribe in a subterranean African kingdom. According to Wikipedia, the She in this film was the ispiration two years later for the evil queen in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Plot summary: Leo Vincey [Randolph Scott] has heard from his uncle that 500 years earlier his ancestors had visited a lost land where the secret of immortality was to be found inside a mystic fire. Vincey sets out with Tanya, [Helen Mack] the daughter of a guide, across the frozen Russian Arctic. They find a hidden civilization called Kor where She rules as immortal queen. She believes Vincey is her long-lost lover and that he is destined to rule with her after she makes him immortal.

Cast and crew: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel, H. Rider Haggard, Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce, Ruth Rose, Dudley Nichols



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Thursday, November 12, 2015

She (1982) - (Sandahl Bergman) Egyptian one-sheet

She (R1984) - (Sandahl Bergman) Egyptian one-sheet Poster

This is an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet poster designed by Moaty for a 1984 rerelease of the 1982 Avi Nesher film She based very loosely on the 1886 novel by H. Rider Haggard with screenplay by Avi Nesher and starring Sandahl Bergman as She. Plot summary: She, revered as a goddess, is leader of a post-apocalyptic Amazon road-warrior group making its way with violence and war in a technologically reverted world. After capturing him during an attack on her camp, She decides to help a man named Tom [David Goss] rescue his sister Hari [Elena Wiedermann], who has been taken by a marauding tribe called the Norks. During their quest to find the abductors they encounter a frightening variety of ridiculous monsters and vicious mutants, all of whom they are able to vanquish handily using well-honed skills with swords, axes and clubs.

Cast and crew: David Goss, Quin Kessler, Gordon Mitchell, Elena Wiedermann, Laurie Sherman, Harrison Muller Jr., Avi Nesher, H. Rider Haggard, Andrew McLeay, Cyrus Elias, David Brandon, Susan Adler, Gregory Snegoff, Mary D'Antin, Mario Pedone, Donald Hodson



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