This is a 21" x 39" Italian fotobusta made to promote the 1956 Ishiro
Honda film Godzilla King of the Monsters starring Raymond Burr
as Steve Martin based on a screenplay by Takeo Murata and Ishiro
Honda. Plot summary: Nuclear weapons testing revives a sleeping
monster from the Jurassic period, which vents its fury on the city of
Tokyo.
This is a 30" x 40" Indian poster for a 1960s rerelease of the 1954
Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window based on the 1942 Cornell
Woolrich short story "It Had to Be Murder," screenplay by John Michael
Hayes and starring James Stewart as L. B. Jeffries. Plot summary:
Photographer L. B. Jeffries is confined to his New York apartment with
his leg in a cast after breaking it while photographing a car race.
To pass the time he watches his neighbors through their apartment
windows opening on the adjoining courtyard; he begins to suspect
Lars Thorwald [Raymond Burr] has murdered his wife.
Cast and crew: James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, Cornell Woolrich, John Michael Hayes, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, Sara Berner, Frank Cady, Jassylyn Fax, Rand Harper, Irene Winston, Havis Davenport
This is a 23" x 33" Danish poster designed by K. Wenzel for the 1955
Ray Milland film A Man Alone based on a story by Mort Briskin,
screenplay by John Tucker Battle and starring Ray Milland as Wes
Steele. Plot summary: Wes Steele is stranded in the desert without a
horse when he comes across a stagecoach whose passengers have all been
murdered. When he rides into town on one of the surviving horses, in
a chance encounter the ones responsible for the massacre and robbery
accuse him of the crime. When they chase him he hides in a cellar,
which he later learns is owned by Sheriff Gil Corrigan [Ward Bond],
suffering from yellow fever. Corrigan's daughter Nadine [Mary Murphy]
is caring for him while his house is under quarantine. When Nadine
collapses from exhaustion Steele takes over the job of nursing the
sheriff until he recovers. Corrigan later gives Steele a chance to
escape a lynch mob.
Cast and crew: Ray Milland, K. Wenzel, Mort Briskin, John Tucker Battle, Mary Murphy, Ward Bond, Raymond Burr, Arthur Space, Lee Van Cleef, Alan Hale Jr., Douglas Spencer, Thomas Browne Henry, Grandon Rhodes, Martin Garralaga, Kim Spalding, Howard Negley
Pictured is an 11" x 14" #2 lobby card for the 1955 Norman Taurog
film You're Never Too Young starring Dean Martin and Jerry
Lewis based on story by Edward Childs Carpenter and Fanny Kilbourne,
screenplay by Sidney Sheldon and starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
as Bob Miles and Wilbur Hoolick. Plot summary: Wilbur Hoolick is an
assistant barber at a hotel who is framed as the culprit in a robbery,
but the frame job is botched and he is accidentally left in possession
of the stolen goods. The robbers go after him to recover the lost
take, but he disguises himself as a 12-year-old so he can get a
half-price train ticket to get away from them. This film is a remake
of Billy Wilder's first film The Major and the Minor (1937) in
which Ginger Rogers plays the role played by Jerry Lewis in this one.
Cast and crew: Norman Taurog, Fanny Kilbourne, Edward Childs Carpenter, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall, Veda Ann Borg, Margery Maude, Romo Vincent, Nancy Kulp, Milton Frome, Tor Johnson
This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster made to promote a
rerelease in the 1970s of the 1956 Ishiro Honda film Godzilla King
of the Monsters starring Raymond Burr as Steve Martin based on a
screenplay by Takeo Murata and Ishiro Honda. Plot summary: Nuclear
weapons testing revives a sleeping monster from the Jurassic period,
which vents its fury on the city of Tokyo.
Cast and crew: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Ishiro Honda, Frank Iwanaga, Sachio Sakai, Takeo Murata, Terry Morse, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Sachio Sakai, Fuyuuki Murakami, Ren Yamamoto, Toyoaki Suzuki, Tadashi Okabe, Toranosuke Ogawa, Frank Iwanaga
This is a 21" x 39" Italian fotobusta made to promote the 1956 Ishiro
Honda film Godzilla King of the Monsters starring Raymond Burr
as Steve Martin based on a screenplay by Takeo Murata and Ishiro
Honda. Plot summary: Nuclear weapons testing revives a sleeping
monster from the Jurassic period, which vents its fury on the city of
Tokyo.
Cast and crew: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Ishiro Honda, Frank Iwanaga, Sachio Sakai, Takeo Murata, Terry Morse, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kochi, Akira Takarada, Akihiko Hirata, Sachio Sakai, Fuyuuki Murakami, Ren Yamamoto, Toyoaki Suzuki, Tadashi Okabe, Toranosuke Ogawa, Frank Iwanaga