This is an original 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1990 Tim
Burton film Edward Scissorhands based on a story by Tim Burton
and Caroline Thompson, screenplay by Caroline Thompson and starring
Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands. Plot summary: Edward Scissorhands
is an inventor's creation who has scissors for hands. Edward is
awkward doing most things but endowed with remarkable skill at such
tasks as trimming and sculpting hedges and hair.
Cast and crew: Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest,
Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Robert Oliveri, Conchata Ferrell,
Caroline Aaron, Dick Anthony Williams, O-Lan Jones, Vincent Price,
Susan Blommaert, Linda Perri, John Davidson
This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster designed by Mos for a
1968 rerelease of the 1965 Jacques Tourneur film War Gods of the
Deep AKA City in the Sea based on the Edgar Allan Poe story
"City in the Sea," screenplay by Charles Bennett and Louis M. Heyward
and starring Vincent Price as the Captain, Sir Hugh. Plot summary: In
1903 some people in the city of Cornwall discover a society of ageless
smugglers who live in an underwater city.
Cast and crew: Jacques Tourneur, Charles Bennett, Louis M. Heyward,
Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan
Hart, John Le Mesurier, Henry Oscar, Derek Newark, Roy Patrick,
Herbert the Rooster
This is a 12.5" x 27.5" Italian locandina poster for the 1961 Fernando
Cerchio film Nefertiti Queen of the Nile written by John Byrne,
Fernando Cerchio, Emerico Papp and Ottavio Poggi and starring Jeanne
Craine as Nefertiti. Plot summary: The film is an historical drama
about Nefertiti's rise to the Egyptian throne in the 14th Century BC
in the midst of a violent Chaldean challenge to the Egyptian state
religion.
Cast and crew: Fernando Cerchio, John Byrne, Emerico Papp, Ottavio
Poggi, Jeanne Craine, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom, Amedeo Nazzari,
Liana Orfei, Raf Baldassarre, Carlo D'Angelo, Alberto Farnese, Romano
Giomini, Giulio Marchetti, Luigi Marturano, Clelia Matania, Piero
Palermini, Umberto Raho, Gino Talamo, Adriano Vitale
This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster designed by Nicola
Piovano of Studio Paradiso for the 1970 Gordon Hessler film Cry of
the Banshee based on a story by Tim Kelly, screenplay by Tim Kelly
and Christopher Wicking and starring Vincent Price as Lord Edward
Whitman. Plot summary: In Elizabethan England Oona [Elisabeth
Bergner] is the leader of a coven of witches. She is infuriated when
the evil witch hunter Lord Edward Whitman murders nearly all the
members of her coven; she summons a banshee to destroy Lord Whitman's
family.
Cast and crew: Gordon Hessler, Nicola Piovano, Tim Kelly,
Christopher Wicking, Vincent Price, Hilary Dwyer, Edgar Allan Poe,
Essy Persson, Hilary Heath, Carl Rigg, Stephan Chase, Marshall Jones,
Andrew McCulloch, Michael Elphick, Pamela Moiseiwitsch, Joyce Mandre,
Robert Hutton, Guy Deghy, Elisabeth Bergner, Patrick Mower, Victoria
Fairbrother
This is a 27" x39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy for the
1961 William Witney film Master of the World based on the 1911 novel
by Jules Verne, screenplay by Richard Matheson and starring Charles
Bronson as John Strock and Vincent Price as Captain Robur. Plot
summary: In the late 19th century, John Strock and his fellow balloon
passengers are taken hostage by Captain Robur aboard his airborne
zeppelin, the Albatross.
Cast and crew: Jules Verne, Wahib Fahmy, Charles Bronson, Vincent
Price, William Witney, Richard Matheson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster,
David Frankham, Richard Harrison, Vito Scotti, Wally Campo, Peter
Besbas, Steve Masino
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
This is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1980 Marc Paul Chinoy
stop motion animation film I Go Pogo based on Walt Kelly's
comic strip and featuring Jonathan Winters and Vincent Price as voice
actors. Plot summary: Pogo has unwittingly become a candidate for
president under coercion from his animal friends in Okefenokee Swamp.
Cast and crew: Marc Paul Chinoy, Walt Kelly, Jonathan Winters, Vincent Price, Ruth Buzzi, Stan Freberg, Jimmy Breslin, Arnold Stang, Bob McFadden, Len Maxwell, Bob Kaliban, Marcia Savella, Mike Schultz, Skip Hinnant
This is a 27" x 40" US one-sheet poster for the 1986 Ron Clements,
Burny Mattinson, David Michener and John Musker film The Great
Mouse Detective based on the Basil of Baker Street series
of novels by Eve Titus and starring Vincent Price as the voice of
Professor Ratigan. This film was the beginning of a Disney
renaissance and includes an early example of the studio's use of CGI
animation for a chase scene done inside Big Ben. Plot summary: The
main characters in this story are all mice and rats living in
Victorian London. In 1897 Olivia Flaversham [Susanne Pollatschek] is
a young mouse about to celebrate her birthday with her toymaker father
Hiram [Alan Young]. Suddenly Fidget [Candy Candido], a bat with a peg
leg, barges in and spirits Hiram away to see Professor Ratigan (a
character based on Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes
stories); Ratigan orders Hiram to create a robot who mimics the queen
of the mice, which will enable him to rule England. Abandoned, Olivia
is suddenly left with the task of locating her father. To do this
she enlists the services of the Great Mouse Detective, Basil of Baker
Street [Barrie Ingham].
Cast and crew: Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin, Susanne Pollatschek, Candy Candido, Diana Chesney, Eve Brenner, Eve Titus, Peter Young, Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, John Musker, Alan Young, Basil Rathbone, Laurie Main, Shani Wallis, Ellen Fitzhugh, Walker Edmiston, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo
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