The Towering Inferno 1974 Steve McQueen Italian locandina

The Towering Inferno (1974) - (Steve McQueen) Italian locandina

This isa 13" x 26" italian locandina poster for the 1974 John Guillermin film The Towering Inferno based on a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and starring Steve McQueen as Chief O'Hallorhan. Plot summary: Construction on a new skyscraper has just been completed but the wiring was not done correctly and it begins to develop short circuits that cause fires. When a major fire breaks out it cannot be controlled from the ground because the building is too tall.

Cast and crew: John Guillermin, Richard Martin Stern, Thomas N. Scortia, Stirling Silliphant, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Paul Newman, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Sheila Allen, Norman Burton, Jack Collins

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The Key 1958 Sophia Loren Italian locandina

The Key (1958) - (Sophia Loren) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1958 Carol Reed film The Key based on the 1951 Jan de Hartog novel Stella, screenplay by Carl Foreman and starring Sophia Loren as Stella. Plot summary: During World War II Stella is a Swiss expatriate of Italian extraction who occupies a flat in Britain. The flat is also used alternately by a succession of tugboat captains in the Royal Navy, whose job is to rescue British freighters damaged by German U-boat and air attacks. They take turns using the key to the flat and providing for Stella's needs.

Cast and crew: Carol Reed, Jan de Hartog, Carl Foreman, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore,Bernard Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, Noel Purcell, Bryan Forbes, Sidney Vivian, Rupert Davies, Russell Waters, Irene Handl, John Crawford, Jameson Clark

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The Bridge on the River Kwai R1960s (William Holden) Italian locandina

The Bridge on the River Kwai (R1960s) - (William Holden) Italian Locandina

This is an original 13" x 28" Italian locandina poster for a 1960s rerelease of the 1957 David Lean film The Bridge on the River Kwai based on the 1952 Pierre Boulle novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai, screenplay by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson and starring William Holden as Major Shears. Plot summary: In 1943 during World War II a group of British prisoners of war is ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge for the Burma-Siam Railway. Meanwhile a British commando team is moving in with a mission to blow up the bridge. The story is fiction drawn from Pierre Boulle's wartime experience as a laborer in Singapore and Indochina. The film won seven Oscars in 1958 including Best Picture.

Cast and crew: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, Geoffrey Horne, David Lean, Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, André Morell, Peter Williams, John Boxer, Percy Herbert, Harold Goodwin, Ann Sears, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Keiichirô Katsumoto, M.R.B. Chakrabandhu

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21 Hours at Munich (1976) - (William Holden) Spanish one-sheet

21 Hours at Munich (1976) - (William Holden) Spanish one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Spanish poster for the 1976 William A. Graham film 21 Hours at Munich based on the 1975 Serge Groussard novel The Blood of Israel, screenplay by Edward Hume and Howard Fast and starring William Holden as Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber. Plot summary: Members of the Palestinian Black September attack the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, killing two and holding nine others hostage, in exchange for whom they demand the release of hundreds of Arab prisoners in Israeli jails. Munich Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber negotiates with the Palestinians and tries to delay meeting their demands. The film was originally made for TV in the USA but was also released theatrically in several countries.

Cast and crew: William A. Graham, Serge Groussard, Edward Hume, Howard Fast, William Holden, Franco Nero, Shirley Knight, Anthony Quayle, Richard Baseheart, Noel Willman, Georg Marischka, Else Quecke, Michael Degen, Djamchid Soheili, Walter Kohut, Jan Niklas, Ernest Lenart, Osman Ragheb, James Hurley

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The Turning Point (1952) - (William Holden) Argentine one-sheet

The Turning Point (1952) - (William Holden) Argentine poster

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet poster for the 1952 William Dieterle film The Turning Point based on the Horace McCoy novel Storm in the City, screenplay by Warren Duff and starring William Holden as Jerry McKibbon. Plot summary: Los Angeles District Attorney John Conroy [Edmond O'Brien] is trying to crack down on a crime syndicate, but the syndicate has many city officials under its control. Newspaper man and old friend Jerry McKibbon helps him, but he does not think Conroy is up to the job. The film was inspired by Senator Estes Kefauver's committee hearings in 1950-1951 on organized crime.

Cast and crew: William Dieterle, Horace McCoy, Warren Duff, William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully, Ed Begley, Danny Dayton, Adele Longmire, Ray Teal, Ted de Corsia, Don Porter, Howard Freeman, Neville Brand

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The Revengers (1972) - (William Holden) US one-sheet

The Revengers (1972) - (William Holden) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1972 Daniel Mann film The Revengers based on a story by Steven W. Carabatsos, screenplay by Wendell Mayes and starring William Holden as John Benedict. Plot summary: John Benedict is a rancher whose ranch is destroyed and his family massacred by a gang of outlaws. He recruits a team of convicts to act as a posse and sets out to get revenge.

Cast and crew: Daniel Mann, Wendell Mayes, Steven W. Carabatsos, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Susan Hayward, Roger Hanin, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jorge Luke, Jorge Martinez de Hoyos, Arthur Hunnicutt, Warren Vanders, Larry Pennell, John Kelly, Scott Holden, James Daughton, Lorraine Chanel, Raul Perez Prieto

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Boots Malone (1952) - (William Holden) Argentine one-sheet

Boots Malone (1952) - (William Holden) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1952 William Dieterle film Boots Malone based on a story by Milton Holmes and Harold Buchman and starring William Holden as Boots Malone. Plot summary: Boots Malone is a jockey's agent at horse races who is down on his luck. He buys a horse that has unrecognized promise, and his fortunes look brighter when he finds an eager young aspiring jockey named Tommy [Johnny Stewart]. However part of the craft Boots practices is fixing horse races; conflicts arise when the races he throws in exchange for pay from gangsters are inflicted on his young trainee, who only wants to win.

Cast and crew: Harold Buchman, William Holden, Johnny Stewart, Stanley Clements, Basil Ruysdael, Johnny Stewart, Milton Holmes, William Dieterle, Carl Benton Reid, Ralph Dumke, Ed Begley, Hugh Sanders, Harry Morgan, Ann Lee, Anthony Caruso, Billy Pearson

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Dear Ruth (1947) - (Joan Caulfield) US Title Card

Dear Ruth (1947) - (William Holden) US Title Card

This is an 11" x 14" US title card for the 1947 William D. Russell film Dear Ruth based on a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman and Norman Krasna and starring Joan Caulfield as Ruth Wilkins. J.D. Salinger combined the last names of this film's stars, William Holden and Joan Caulfield, to make the name of the protagonist for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. Plot summary: Miriam Wilkins [Mona Freeman] pretends to be her older sister Ruth in wartime correspondence with Lt. William Seacroft [William Holden], a bombardier in Italy, never expecting her sister would find out about it. There is a family crisis when Lieutenant Seacroft comes to their home expecting to meet Ruth.

Cast and crew: William Holden, Joan Caulfield, William D. Russell, Arthur Sheekman, Norma Krasna, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold, Billy De Wolfe, Mary Philips, Virginia Welles, Kenny O'Morrison, Marietta Canty, Irving Bacon

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Casino Royale (1967) - (Woody Allen) Italian Locandina

Casino Royale (1967) - (Woody Allen) Italian Locandina

This is a 25.5" x 12.5" Italian locandina poster designed by Robert McGinnis to promote the 1967 Ken Hughes and John Huston film Casino Royale based on a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz and John Law and Starring Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble. Plot summary: In a plan to trick SMERSH James Bond, [Peter Sellers] who has recently come out of retirement, decides every agent will have the name James Bond.

Cast and crew: Ken Hughes, John Huston, Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, David Niven, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Robert McGinnis, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, George Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Terence Cooper

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Casino Royale (1967) - (Woody Allen) Italian 4-sheet

Casino Royale (1967) - (Woody Allen) Italian four-sheet poster

This is a 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster designed by Giorgio Olivetti to promote the 1967 Ken Hughes and John Huston film Casino Royale based on a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz and John Law and Starring Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble. Plot summary: In a plan to trick SMERSH James Bond, [Peter Sellers] who has recently come out of retirement, decides every agent will have the name James Bond.

Cast and crew: Ken Hughes, John Huston, Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, David Niven, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Giorgio Olivetti, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, George Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Terence Cooper

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Casino Royale (1967) - (Peter Sellers) Italian Busta #1

Casino Royale (1967) - (Peter Sellers) #1 Italian Busta

This is an 18" x 26" Italian fotobusta poster designed to promote the 1967 Ken Hughes and John Huston film Casino Royale based on a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz and John Law and Starring Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble. Plot summary: In a plan to trick SMERSH James Bond, [Peter Sellers] who has recently come out of retirement, decides every agent will have the name James Bond. Cast amd crew: Ken Hughes, John Huston, Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, David Niven, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, George Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Terence Cooper

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Casino Royale (1967) - (Peter Sellers) Italian 2-sheet

Casino Royale (1967) - (Peter Sellers) Italian two-sheet film poster

This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster designed to promote the 1967 Ken Hughes and John Huston film Casino Royale based on a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz and John Law and Starring Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble. Plot summary: In a plan to trick SMERSH James Bond, [Peter Sellers] who has recently come out of retirement, decides every agent will have the name James Bond.

Cast and crew: Ken Hughes, John Huston, Wolf Mankowitz, John Law, David Niven, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Joanna Pettet, Daliah Lavi, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Kurt Kasznar, George Raft, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Terence Cooper

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