Movie Poster Collecting: Hume Cronyn

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Cleopatra 1963 Elizabeth Taylor Yugoslavian poster

Cleopatra (1963) - (Elizabeth Taylor) Yugoslavian poster

This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewizc film Cleopatra based on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius and Appian, screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman and starring Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. Plot summary: Beginning in the year 48 B.C. Cleopatra forms strategic alliances, first with Caesar, [Rex Harrison, whom she uses to secure the banishment of her rival brother Ptolemy, [Richard O'Sullivan] and then with Mark Antony [Richard Burton] after Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C.

Cast and crew: Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Joseph Mankiewicz, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Grégoire Aslan, Martin Benson

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Conrack (1974) - (Jon Voight) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1974 Martin Ritt film Conrack starring Jom Voight based on the book The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy, screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. and starring Jon Voight as Conrack. Plot summary: In March 1969 Pat Conroy (Conrack) starts teaching at an isolated school on Daufuskie Island in a South Carolina river delta accessible only by boat, in an area inhabitied exclusively by blacks. He soon learns that the children at his school have not been served well by the school system and lack basic skills such as competence with the alphabet and simple arithmetic, as well as other elementary matters such as personal hygiene. Conrack decides to redress these oversights but in so doing he upsets the local social applecart and loses his job.

Cast and crew: Jon Voight, Martin Ritt, Hume Cronyn, Paul Winfield, Pat Conroy, Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas, Ruth Attaway, James O'Rear, Gracia Lee, C.P. MacDonald, Jane Moreland, Thomas Horton, Nancy Butler, Robert W. Page, Mac Arthur Nelson

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Cleopatra (1963) - (Elizabeth Taylor) Italian four-sheet

This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster using the classic art by Howard Terpning to promote the 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film Cleopatra with screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Ranald MacDougall and starring Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. Plot summary: In 48 B.C. Julius Caesar [Rex Harrison] falls in love with Cleopatra upon his arrival in Egypt in pursuit of Pompey. They go to Rome together and have a son, but after Caesar is assassinated Cleopatra returns to Egypt. Later Mark Antony [Richard Burton] is also smitten by Cleopatra.

Cast and crew: Howard Terpning, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Ranald MacDougall, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Gregoire Aslan, Martin Benson