This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Sami for the 1978
Corey Allen film Avalance based on a story by Frances Doel and
starring Rock Hudson as David Shelby. Plot summary: The vacationers at
a ski resort face a life-threatening crisis when an avalanche crashes
in.
Cast and crew: Corey Allen, Sami, Frances Doel, Gavin Lambert, Rock
Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Jeanette Nolan, Rick Moses, Steve
Franken, Barry Primus, Cathey Paine, Jerry Douglas, Antony Carbone,
Peggy Browne, Pat Egan, Joby Baker, X Brands, Cindy Luedke
This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1969 Andrew
V. McLaglen film The Undefeated based on a story by Stanley
Hough, screenplay by James Lee Barrett and starring John Wayne as
Colonel John Henry Thomas. Plot summary: After the American Civil War
Colonel John Henry Thomas and Colonel James Langdon [Rock Hudson] are
leading two completely different groups into Mexico. Although they
have little in common, the two groups are forced to make common cause
to help each other fight off bandits and revolutionaries.
Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, James Lee Barrett, Stanley
Hough, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Roman Gabriel, Marian
McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Merlin Olsen, Melissa Newman, Bruce Cabot,
Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Edward Faulkner, Harry Carey Jr.,
Paul Fix, Royal Dano
This is a 23" x 34" Danish poster for the 1964 Howard Hawks
film Man's Favorite Sport based on the Pat Frank short story
"The Girl Who Almost Got Away," screenplay by John Fenton Murray and
Steve McNeil and starring Rock Hudson as Roger Willoughby. Plot
summary: Renowned sports fishing expert Roger Willoughby is entered in
a fishing contest by his employer, the Sporting Goods Department at
Abercrombie and Fitch. This creates a major problem for him because
Willoughby has never been fishing in his life.
Cast and crew: Howard Hawks, Pat Frank, Rock Hudson, Paula
Prentiss, Maria Perschy, John McGiver, Charlene Holt, James
Westerfield, Norman Alden, Forrest Lewis, Tyler McVey, Kathie Browne,
Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey, Pat Frank, John Fenton Murray, Steve
McNeil
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1967 Arthur Hiller
film Tobruk written by Leo Gordon and starring Rock Hudson as
Major Donald Craig. Plot summary: Major Craig is a Canadian officer
kidnapped from the Vichy French in North Africa by a British special
forces unit so he can help a company of British and German-Jewish
commandos cross 800 miles of desert to make preparations for an
amphibious assault against a German fuel storage base.
Cast and crew: Arthur Hiller, Leo Gordon, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson, Percy Herbert, Norman Rossington, Liam Redmond, Heidy Hunt, Robert Wolders, Anthony Ashdown, Curt Lowens, Rico Cattani, Peter Coe
This is a 27" x 39" Spanish one-sheet poster designed by Max for the
1969 Andrew V. McLaglen film The Undefeated based on a story by
Stanley Hough, screenplay by James Lee Barrett and starring John Wayne
as Colonel John Henry Thomas. Plot summary: In the final days of the
American Civil War, Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and his men drive
a herd of 3,000 horses into Mexico to be sold in Durango. Colonel
James Langdon [Rock Hudson] and his regiment of Confederate soldiers
feel the war has deprived them of their homes and decide to join the
French invasion of Mexico led by Emperor Maximilian. When they arrive
in Mexico General Rojas [Antonio Aguilar] intercepts and holds them
hostage to be exchanged for the herd of horses Colonel Thomas is
bringing. When he arrives, the colonel has other ideas.
Cast and crew: Andrew V. McLaglen, James Lee Barrett, Stanley Hough, Antonio Aguilar, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Roman Gabriel, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Merlin Olsen, Melissa Newman, Bruce Cabot, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, Edward Faulkner, Harry Carey Jr., Paul Fix, Royal Dano
This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster for the 1954
Douglas Sirk film Magnificent Obsession based on the 1929 book
of the same title by Lloyd C. Dougles, screenplay by Wells Root, Sarah
Y. Mason, Victor Heerman and Finley Peter Dunne and starring Rock
Hudson as Bob Merrick. Plot summary: Bob Merrick is a spoiled playboy
who has to be resuscitated using the only resuscitator available on a
lake where he has recklessly lost control of his speedboat. During
Merrick's resuscitation, Dr. Wayne Phillips has a heart attack and
dies because the resuscitator is not available to save him. The
doctors and nurses blame Merrick for inadvertently causing
Dr. Phillips's death. Merrick lives in the shadow of this guilt and
resolves to try to emulate the late Dr. Phillips in fulfillment of his
legacy, but the first thing he does after making this resolution is to
cause Dr. Phillips's widow Helen [Jane Wyman] to be blinded in a
traffic accident. Merrick is in love with Helen and arranges for her
to go to Europe for diagnosis by the world's best eye surgeons, who
declare that she has no hope of recovery. Merrick later becomes an
accomplished brain surgeon by applying Dr. Phillips's secret of
success, as explained by his best friend Edward Randolph [Otto
Kruger]. The application of this secret becomes Merrick's
"magnificent obsession."
Cast and crew: Robert Blees, Wells Root, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, Finley Peter Dunne, Rock Hudson, Douglas Sirk, Lloyd C. Douglas, Jane Wyman, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorhead, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer, Paul Cavanagh, Sara Shane, Richard H. Cutting, Judy Nugent, Helen Kleeb, Rudolph Anders, Fred Nurney, John Mylong, Alexander Campbell
This is an original 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1953
film The Lawless Breed based on a story by William Alland
adapted from John Wesley Hardin's original autobiographical account,
screenplay by Bernard Gordon and starring Rock Hudson as John Wesley
Hardin. Plot summary: This is story of John Wesley Hardin, an
American gunfighter who left an autobiographical account of his life
with a local newspaper after he was pardoned and released from prison
in 1896 in Huntsville Texas. The film narrates his youthful
attachment to Jane Bond [Mary Castle], the orphan girl with whom he
grew up, the discipline he underwent as the son of authoritarian
religious father [John McIntire], his crooked gambling habits, his
flight from the law after killing a man named Gus Hanley [Michael
Ansara] in self-defense and his participation in a family cattle drive
to Abilene to avoid the authorities. In Abilene he kills Dirk Hanley
[Lee Van Cleef], also in self-defense, then buys a wedding dress for
Jane Bond and takes it back to her at his family home. After Jane is
killed by a posse pursuing Hardin, he spends years on the run with
Rosie McCoy [Julie Adams] before the Texas Rangers catch up with him
in Kansas. The rangers do not catch him there and from Kansas he
moves with Rosie to Pollard Alabama, where he marries her and has a
child with her under the name J. Swain. The rangers arrest him there
and he is tried, convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison, though
he insisted until the end the killing was in self-defense.
Cast and crew: Raoul Walsh, William Alland, Bernard Gordon, John Wesley Hardin, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Mary Castle, John McIntire, Hugh O'Brian, Dennis Weaver, Forrest Lewis, Lee Van Cleef, Tom Fadden, Race Gentry, Richard Garland, Glenn Strange, William Pullen
