Movie Poster Collecting: Pierre Boulle

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 1972 Roddy McDowall Yugoslavian poster

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) - (Roddy McDowall) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1972 J. Lee Thompson film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes written by Paul Dehn and Pierre Boulle and starring Roddy McDowall as Caesar. Plot summary: After the plague wipes out all the cats and dogs, apes become the household pets, treated like slaves. Caesar leads the apes in a revolt.

Cast and crew: J. Lee Thompson, Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams, John Huston, Paul Dehn, Pierre Boulle, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Hari Rhodes, Severn Darden, Lou Wagner, John Randolph, Asa Maynor, John Randolph, Asa Maynor, H. M. Wynant, David Chow, Buck Kartalian, John Dennis, Paul Comi, Gordon Jump, Dick Spangler

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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

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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Planet of the Apes (2001) - (dir: Tim Burton) Egyptian one-sheet

This isa 26" x38" Egyptian one-sheet poster for the 2001 Tim Burton film Planet of the Apes based on the 1963 novel of the same title by Pierre Boulle and starring Mark Wahlberg as Captain Leo Davidson. Plot summary: Astronaut Leo Davidson is unexpectedly rerouted through a cosmic wormhole and lands on a planet where the human race is ruled by talking apes.

Cast and crew: Pierre Boulle, William Broyles Jr., Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Tim Burton, Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Giamatti, Kris Kristofferson, Tim Roth, Michael Clarke Duncan, Estalla Warren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, David Warner, Erick Avari, Lucas Elliot Eberi, Evan Parke, Glenn Shadix, Freda Foh Shen, Chris Ellis