Movie Poster Collecting: Richard Burton

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Cleopatra 1963 Elizabeth Taylor Yugoslavian poster

Cleopatra (1963) - (Elizabeth Taylor) Yugoslavian poster

This is an 18.5" x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewizc film Cleopatra based on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius and Appian, screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman and starring Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. Plot summary: Beginning in the year 48 B.C. Cleopatra forms strategic alliances, first with Caesar, [Rex Harrison, whom she uses to secure the banishment of her rival brother Ptolemy, [Richard O'Sullivan] and then with Mark Antony [Richard Burton] after Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C.

Cast and crew: Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Joseph Mankiewicz, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Grégoire Aslan, Martin Benson

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Sunday, September 24, 2017

The VIPs 1963 Elizabeth Taylor Italian locandina

VIPs (1963) - (Elizabeth Taylor) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 28" Italian locandina poster for the 1963 Anthony Asquith film The VIPs written by Terence Rattigan and starring Elizabeth Taylor as Frances Andros. Plot summary: A group of prominent and wealthy persons is held up by weather at the London airport. The film gives glimpses of their lives and personal dramas.

Cast and crew: Anthony Asquith, Terence Rattigan, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles, Linda Christian, Dennis Price, Richard Wattis, Ronald Fraser, David Frost, Robert Coote, Joan Benham

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

Brief Encounter (1974) - (Sophia Loren) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Ahmed Fouad for the 1974 Alan Bridges film Brief Encounter based on a play by Noel Coward, screenplay by John Bowen and starring Sophia Loran as Anna Jesson. Plot summary: Alec Harvey [Richard Burton} and Anna Jesson meet for the first time at a railroad station. Although they are both married to other people, they fall in love. It seems a beautiful feeling to them, but it actually turns out to be a stubborn social no-no that generates disturbing complications and difficult problems in other parts of their lives.

Cast and crew: Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Carlo Ponti, Alan Bridges, Noel Coward, Jack Hedley, John Bowen, Rosemary Leach, Ann Firbank, Gwen Cherrell, Benjamin Edney, John Le Mesurier, Jumoke Debayo, Madeleine Hinde, Marco Orlandini, Patricia Franklin, Jack Harding

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Monday, April 4, 2016

The Voyage (1974) - (Sophia Loren) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1974 Vittorio De Sica film The Voyage AKA Il Viaggio based on a novel by Luigi Pirandello, screenplay by Diego Fabbri, Massimo Franciosa and Luisa Montagnana and starring Sophia Loren as Adriana De Mauro. Plot summary: In Sicily several years before World War I Adriana de Mauro and Cesar Braggi [Richard Burton] are in love, but Cesar's brother Antonio [Ian Bannen] also wants to marry Adriana. Cesar steps aside and allows this to comply with his father's dying wish, to Adriana's great disappointment. After initial reluctance she agrees because of the social advantages to their families. Five years later, after having had a son with Adriana, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Cesar reenters Adriana's life, but Adriana is then diagnosed with a terminal illness. Cesar still proposes to her, but Adriana's mother Signora De Mauro [Barbara Pilavin] bitterly objects.

Cast and crew: Diego Fabbi, Massimo Franciosa, Luisa Montagnana, Luigi Pirandello, Vittorio De Sica, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Ian Bannen, Barbara Pilavin, Renato Pinciroli, Daniele Vargas, Sergio Bruni, Ettore Geri, Olga Romanelli, Isabelle Marchall, Riccardo Mangano, Annabella Incontrera, Antonio Anelli, Luca Bonicalzi, Francesco Lauriano

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Sunday, April 12, 2015

The Battle of Sujetska (1973) - (Richard Burton) Spanish one-sheet

The Battle of Sutjeska (1973) - (Richard Burton) Spanish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Spanish poster designed by Mauro to promote the 1973 Yugoslavian film by Stipe Delic, The Battle of Sutjeska based on writing by Sergey Bondarchuk, Wolf Mankovitsch, Ugo Pirro, Branimir Scepanovic and Miljenko Smoje and starring Richard Burton as Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Plot summary: The Battle of Sutjeska, also known as the Fifth Offensive, is the story of the fight in 1943 against the occupying Nazi powers by Yugoslavian partisans in Nazi-occupied Bosnia and Hercegovina under the leadership of Marshal Tito. Although the partisans are outgunned, outnumbered and outmaneuvered, they are able to hold their own for a time in the Durmitor mountainous region, until they are surrounded by Axis forces, who outnumber them six to one. After the partisans fight their way out there is a huge battle where the partisans prevail on the plains of Sutjeska in southeastern Bosnia.

Cast and crew: Richard Burton, Irene Papas, Bert Sotlar,Sergey Bondarchuk, Wolf Mankovitsch, Ugo Pirro, Branimir Scepanovic, Miljenko Smojeka, Anton Differing, Stipe Delic", Ljuba Tadik, Velimir Zivojinovic, Milena Dravic, Boris Dvornik, Rade Markovic, Ljubisa Samardzic, Milan Puzic, Nikola-Kole Angelovski, Stole Arandjelovic, Relja Basic, Branko Spoljar, Petar Banicvic

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Cleopatra (1963) - (Elizabeth Taylor) Italian four-sheet

This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster using the classic art by Howard Terpning to promote the 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film Cleopatra with screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Ranald MacDougall and starring Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. Plot summary: In 48 B.C. Julius Caesar [Rex Harrison] falls in love with Cleopatra upon his arrival in Egypt in pursuit of Pompey. They go to Rome together and have a son, but after Caesar is assassinated Cleopatra returns to Egypt. Later Mark Antony [Richard Burton] is also smitten by Cleopatra.

Cast and crew: Howard Terpning, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Ranald MacDougall, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Gregoire Aslan, Martin Benson