Movie Poster Collecting: Philip Ober

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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 1966 Don Knotts Australian day bill

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) Australian day bill

This is a 14" x 30" Australian day bill poster for the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken written by James Fritzell, Everett Grenbaum and Andy Griffith and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: In Rachel Kansas, Luther Heggs, a typesetter aspiring to be a reporter for the Rachel Courier Express, is assigned the job of spending the night alone at the Simmons mansion, the site of a murder-suicide 20 years earlier. Despite his terror of being alone in the old mansion at night, with the help of his friend Kelsey [Liam Redmond] Luther is able to determine exactly what happened on that fateful night long ago and who the killer was, before the mansion can be torn down by its owner, Nick Simmons, [Philip Ober] who has just returned to Rachel for that purpose.

Cast and crew: Don Knotts, Dick Sargent, Liam Redmond, Joan Staley, Alan Rafkin, James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles Lane, Jesslyn Fax, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg

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Monday, June 29, 2015

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken written by James Fritzell, Everett Grenbaum and Andy Griffith and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: In Rachel Kansas, Luther Heggs, a typesetter aspiring to be a reporter for the Rachel Courier Express, is assigned the job of spending the night alone at the Simmons mansion, the site of a murder-suicide 20 years earlier. With the help of his friend Kelsey [Liam Redmond] Luther is able to determine exactly what happened on that fateful night long ago and who the killer was before the mansion can be torn down by its owner, Nick Simmons, who has just returned to Rachel for that purpose.

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Beloved Infidel (1959) - (Gregory Peck) US insert

This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1959 Henry King film Beloved Infidel based on the book by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank with screenplay by Sy Bartlett and starring Gregory Peck as F. Scott Fitzgerald. Plot summary: While working as a Hollywood gossip columnist in 1937, Sheilah Graham [Deborah Kerr] meets and falls in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is writing short stories and screenplays to support his wife Zelda, who has been committed to an asylum, and his daughter Frances, who is in boarding school; his alcoholism causes problems in his relationship with Sheilah.

Cast and crew: Sheilah Graham, Sy Bartlett, Henry King, Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Philip Ober, Herbert Rudley, John Sutton, Karin Booth, Ken Scott, Buck Class, A. Cameron Grant, Cindy Ames, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Monday, December 22, 2014

North by Northwest (R1966) - (Cary Grant) Italian four-sheet

Pictured is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster using art by Enzo Nistri to promote a 1966 rerelease of the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest based on a story by Ernest Lehman and starring Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill. Plot summary: Roger Thornhill is an advertising man who has been mistaken for someone else and then framed for murder. With help of Eve Kendall [Eva Marie Saint] he evades pursuit.

Cast and crew: Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ernest Lehman, Enzo Nistri, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein, Les Tremayne, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Edward Binns

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Monday, December 15, 2014

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) - (Don Knotts) Italian four-sheet

This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster designed by Morini to promote the 1966 Alan Rafkin film The Ghost and Mr. Chicken based on a story by James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum and starring Don Knotts as Luther Heggs. Plot summary: Luther Heggs, a reporter for a small-town newspaper, is given an assignment to spend a night at an old mansion that had been the scene 20 years earlier of a murder. In the events that follow the identity of the murderer becomes known for the first time.

Cast and crew: Alan Rafkin, James Fritzell, Morini, Everett Greebaum, Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Lliam Redmond, Dick Sargent, Skip Homeier, Reta Shaw, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Ober, Harry Hickox, Charles Lane, Jesslyn Fax, Nydia Westman, George Chandler, Robert Cornthwaite, Jim Begg