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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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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Limelight (1952) - (Charles Chaplin) Argentine one-sheet

Limelight (1952) - (Charles Chapline) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1952 Charles Chaplin film Limelight written by Charles Chaplin and starring Charles Chaplin as Calvero. Plot summary: In 1914 on the eve of World War I a formerly famous stage clown named Calvero saves a young dancer named Terry Ambrose [Claire Bloom] from suicide. After doing so he helps her regain her confidence and start dancing again, but is unable to restart his own career. Calvero leaves home to take up the life of a street entertainer but is eventually summoned back to the stage to do a benefit performance when Terry has become star of her own show.

Cast and crew: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Sydney Chaplin, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Norman Lloyd, Marjorie Bennet, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Geraldine Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin, Charles Chaplin Jr., Snub Pollard, Michael Chaplin, Oona O'Neil

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