Showing posts with label Michael Curtiz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Curtiz. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2020

Comancheros 1961 John Wayne Window Card

The Commancheros (1961) - (John Wayne) US Window Card

This is a 14" x 22" US window card for the 1961 Michael Curtiz film The Comancheros based on the 1952 Paul Wellman novel of the same title, screenplay by James Edward Grant and Clair Huffaker and starring John Wayne as Captain Jake Cutter. Plot summary: Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests Paul Regret, a gambler, but soon joins forces with his prisoner in a fight against a gang of arms merchants and thieves.

Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne, James Edward Grant, Clair Huffaker, Paul Wellman (1952 novel), Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Cabot, Joan O'Brien, Jack Elam, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell, Richard Devon



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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Trouble along the Way 1953 John Wayne US one-sheet

Trouble along the Way (1953) - (John Wayne) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" original US one-sheet poster for the 1953 Fred Zinneman film Trouble along the Way based on a story by Douglas Morrow and Robert Hardy Andrews, screenplay by Melville Shavelson and Jack Rose and starring John Wayne as Aloysius Williams. Plot summary: Steve William is a football coach at a Catholic college who gets involved in a recruiting scandal.

Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, Douglas Morrow, Robert Hardy Andrews, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson, Marie Windsor, Tom Helmore, Dabbs Greer, Leif Erickson, Douglas Spencer, Lester Matthews, Chuck Connors



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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Erroll Flynn Yugoslavian rerelease poster

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - (Errol Flynn) Yugoslavian undated rerelease poster

This is a 19" x 27" Yugoslavian poster for an undated rerelease of the 1938 Michael Curtiz film The Adventures of Robin Hood based on a screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller and starring Errol Flynn as Sir Robin of Locksley AKA Robin Hood. Plot summary: In England in 1191 Sir Robin of Locksley takes a stand against Prince John [Claude Rains] when he usurps the throne of his brother King Richard the Lionheart [Ian Hunter]; Sir Robin goes underground and vows to do everything he can to restore Richard to the throne. He also binds his followers to an oath to rob the rich and give to the poor and treat all women with courtesy.

Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Raines, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Ian Hunter, Melville Cooper, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Montagu Love, Leonard Willey, Robert Noble, Kenneth Hunter



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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Charge of the Light Brigade R1970s Erol Flynn Yugoslavian poster

The Charge of the Light Brigade (R1970s) - (Erol Flynn) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19" x 26" Yugoslavian poster for the 1936 Michael Curtiz film Charge of the Light Brigade based on a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, story by Michael Jacoby, screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Roland Leigh and starring Errol Flynn as Major Geoffrey Vickers. Plot summary: In 1854 in India during the Crimean War the garrison of the 27th Lancers is attacked and massacred by Surat Khan [C. Henry Gordon] while the regiment itself is out on maneuvers. The victims are mostly women and children. Major Geoffrey Vickers later takes personal vengeance against Surat Khan in a suicidal charge during the Battle of Balaclava (25 October 1854). The making of the film cost the lives of 25 horses killed or injured by trip wires installed by the film studio to make them fall during the charge.

Cast and crew: Michael Curtiz, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Michael Jacoby, Rowland Leigh, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry STephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, C. Henry Gordon, G.P. Huntley, Robert Barrat, Spring Byington, E.E. Clive, J. Carrol Naish, Walter Holbrook, Princess Baba



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Friday, April 3, 2015

Francis of Assisi (1961) - (Bradford Dillman) US one-sheet

Francis of Assisi (1961) - (Bradford Dillman) US one-sheet

This is US 21" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1961 Michael Curtiz film Francis of Assisi based on the novel The Joyful Beggar by Louis De Wohl, screenplay by Eugene Vale, James Forsyth and Jack W. Thomas and starring Bradford Dillman as Francis Bernadone of Assisi. Plot summary: The film tells the 13th Century story of the life of Francis of Assisi, the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, who renounces his his worldy goods to dedicate his life to God. Delores Hart plays the part of Lady Clare of Assisi, who is inspired by Francis to become a nun. Off the screen, Hart actually did become a nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut two years after the film's release. The film covers Assisi's departure from the army at the urging of an inner voice, his imprisonment for desertion, his pardon by Count Paolo of Vandria [Stuart Whitman] at Clare's behest, and then his establishment of an order with the pope's blessing.

Cast and crew: Bradford Dillman, Ludwig Von Wohl, Eugene Vale, James Forsyth, Jack W. Thomas, Michael Curtiz, Louis De Wohl, Eugene Vale, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway, Eduard Franz, Athene Seyler, Finlay Currie, Mervyn Johns, Russell Napier, John Welsh, Harold Goldblatt, Edith Sharpe, Jack Lambert, Oliver Johnston, Malcolm Keen, Pedro Armendariz





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