Movie Poster Collecting: Reynold Brown

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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Masque of the Red Death (1964) - (Vincent Price) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster designed by Reynold Brown for the 1964 Roger Corman film The Masque of the Red Death based on an 1842 story by Edgar Allan Poe, screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell and starring Vincent Price as Prince Prospero. Plot summary: On a mountain in medieval Italy Prince Prospero is a Satan-worshipper who finds himself and his castle surrounded by the plague (the Red Death). The plague takes two forms: it is both a disease and a masked figure that associates with people, attends balls and chooses and does away with its victims.

Cast and crew: Roger Corman, Reynold Brown, Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Skip Martin, Robert Brown, Julian Burton, David Davies, Gaye Brown, Verina Greenlaw, Doreen Dawn, Brian Hewlett

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Monday, April 25, 2016

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) - (Ray Milland) US one-sheet

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) - (Ray Milland) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster designed by Reynold Brown for the 1963 Roger Corman 79-minute color film X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes based on a story by Ray Russell, screenplay by Robert Dillon and Ray Russell and starring Ray Milland as Dr. James Xavier. Plot summary: Dr. James Xavier is a famous California scientist experimenting with human eyesight. He devises a compound that allows one to see through objects when applied to the eyes; he tests it on himself because he believes it will improve the accuracy of his medical diagnoses. He finds the drug's powers go far beyond his expectations and eventually change the appearance of his own eyes in addition to enhancing the power of his eyesight. He decides to wear sunglasses to hide this from other people.

Cast and crew: Roger Corman, Reynold Brown, Robert Dillon, Ray Russell, Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) - (Vincent Price) US insert

This is a US 14" x 26" insert poster designed by Reynold Brown for the 1962 Albert Zugsmith film Confessions of an Opium Eater based on the 1822 autobiographical novel by Thomas de Quincey with screenplay by Robert Hill and starring Vincent Price as Gilbert De Quincey. Plot summary: In early 19th-Century San Francisco Gilbert de Quincey, uncertain about his future and feeling he has no self to realize, has a premonition about a predestined rendezvous as he makes his way through opium dreams and the Chinese underground trying to help slave auction girls being moved about among warring criminal gangs.

Cast and crew: Albert Zugsmith, Thomas De Quincey, Vincent Price, Lunda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu, Philip Ahri, Yvonne Moray, Thomas de Qunicey

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Showdown at Abilene (1956) - (Jock Mahoney) US half-sheet

Showdown at Abiline (1956) - (Jock Mahoney) US half-sheet

This is a US 22" x 28" half-sheet poster using art by Reynold Brown to promote the 1956 Charles F. Haas film Showdown at Abilene based on story by Clarence Upson Young, screenplay by Berne Giler and starring Jock Mahoney as Jim Trask. Plot summary: Jim Trask was once sheriff of Abilene before fighting with the Confederacy in the civil war. When he returns to Abilene he discovers that most of the people he used to know think he has been killed. He also finds that most of the farmland around Abiline has been taken over by ranchers, who are still feuding bitterly with the farmers. His old friend Dave Mosely [Lyle Bettger] is planning to marry his former sweetheart Peggy Bigelow [Martha Hyer]. Dave, who has become prosperous by encouraging the cattle trade and now feels beleaguered by the angry farmers, persuades him to take back his old job as sheriff. Trask immediately begins enforcing a local law requiring that firearms be turned in while in Abilene.

Cast and crew: Jock Mahoney, Martha Hyer, Lyle Bettger, David Janssen, Grant Williams, Ted de Corsia, Charles F. Haas, Howard Christie, Harry Harvey, Dayton Lummis, Richard H. Cutting, Rogert G. Anderson, John Maxwell, Lane Bradford, Reynold Brown