Movie Poster Collecting: Michael Wilson

Friday, October 20, 2017

Planet of the Apes 1968 Charlton Heston Yugoslavian poster

Planet of the Apes (1968) - (Charlton Heston) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19.5" x 28" Yugoslvian poster for the 1968 Franklin J. Shaffner film Planet of the Apes based on the 1963 Pierre Boulle novel, screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling and starring Charlton Heston as George Taylor. Plot summary: In the distant future an American spacecraft crashes on a planet where the dominant species is a bizarre movie-studio breed of hybrid talking ape; these apes treat the humans living on their planet as livestock.

Cast and crew: Charlton Heston, Pierre Boulle first edition 1963, Roddy MacDowall, Michael Wilson, Rod Serling, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison, Franklin J. Schaffner, Robert Gunner, Lou Wagner, Woodrow Parfrey, Jeff Burton, Buck Kartalian, Norman Burton, Wright King, Paul Lambert

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Monday, August 14, 2017

The Bridge on the River Kwai R1960s (William Holden) Italian locandina

The Bridge on the River Kwai (R1960s) - (William Holden) Italian Locandina

This is an original 13" x 28" Italian locandina poster for a 1960s rerelease of the 1957 David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai based on the 1952 Pierre Boulle novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai, screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson and starring William Holden as Major Shears. Plot summary: In 1943 during World War II a group of British prisoners of war is ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge for the Burma-Siam Railway. Meanwhile a British commando team is moving in with a mission to blow up the bridge. The story is fiction drawn from Pierre Boulle's wartime experience as a laborer in Singapore and Indochina. The film won seven Oscars in 1958 including Best Picture.

Cast and crew: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne, David Lean, Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Keiichirô Katsumoto, M.R.B. Chakrabandhu