Movie Poster Collecting

Monday, December 22, 2014

The Outrage (1964) - (Paul Newman) Italian two-sheet

This is an Italian 39" x 54" two-sheet poster made to promote the 1964 Martin Ritt film The Outrage based on a screenplay by Michael and Kay Kanin adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and starring Paul Newman as Juan Carrasco. Plot summary: Juan Carrasco is tried for rape and murder, but the witnesses interpret the events they saw in drastically different ways.

Cast and crew: Martin Ritt, Michael Kanin, Akira Kurosawa, Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. robinson, William Shatner, Howard Da Silva, Albert Salmi, Thomas Chalmers, Paul Fix

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North by Northwest (R1966) - (Cary Grant) Italian four-sheet

Pictured is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster using art by Enzo Nistri to promote a 1966 rerelease of the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest based on a story by Ernest Lehman and starring Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill. Plot summary: Roger Thornhill is an advertising man who has been mistaken for someone else and then framed for murder. With help of Eve Kendall [Eva Marie Saint] he evades pursuit.

Cast and crew: Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ernest Lehman, Enzo Nistri, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Philip Ober, Martin Landau, Adam Williams, Edward Platt, Robert Ellenstein, Les Tremayne, Philip Coolidge, Patrick McVey, Edward Binns

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Night of the Blind Dead (1971) - (Lone Fleming) Italian two-sheet

This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster for the 1971 Amand de Ossorio film Night of the Blind Dead [original Spanish title La noche del terror ciego starring Lone Fleming as Betty Turner. Plot summary: In contemporary Portugal some people come upon an abandoned 13th Century monastery that once belonged to an evil group of Knights Templars. Somehow their presence revives the deceased Templars, spreading terror across the land.

Cast and crew: Amando de Ossorio, Jesus Navarro Carrion, Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Elena Arpon, Joseph Thelman, Rufino Ingles, Maria Silva, Simon Arnaga, Francisco Sanz, Andres Isbert, Antonio Orengo

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Friday, December 19, 2014

The Misfits (1961) - (Marilyn Monroe) Italian four-sheet

Pictured is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster for the 1961 John Huston film The Misfits based on a screenplay by Arthur Miller and starring Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Tabler. Plot summary: As she gradually succumbs to the determined advances of Gay Langland [Clark Gable], Roslyn Tabler becomes upset when she learns some wild horses (called "misfits") are to be sold for dogfood.

Cast and crew: John Huston, Arthur Miller, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe. Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, James Barton, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

The Lady and the Bandit (1951) - (Louis Hayward) Italian four-sheet

This is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster using art by Anselmo Ballester for the 1951 Ralph Murphy film The Lady and the Bandit (AKA Dick Turpin's Ride) based on a story by Jack DeWitt and Duncan Renaldo adapted from the poem Dick Turpin's Ride by Alfred Noyes and starring Louis Heyward as Dick Turpin and Patricia Medina as Joyce Greene. Plot summary: The 18th-century highwayman Dick Turpin gives up robbery to marry and settle down with Joyce Greene. After his mother-in-law realizes who he really is, he also discovers that his arch enemy is plotting against King George.

Cast and crew: Patricia Medina, Dick Turpin's Ride, Anselmo Ballester, Louis Hayward, Ralph Murphy, Jack DeWitt, Alfred Noyes, Duncan Renaldo, Suzanne Dalbert, Tum Tully, John Williams, Malu Gatica, Alan Mowbray, Lumsden Hare, Barbara Brown, Malcolm Keen, Stapleton Kent, Sheldon Jett, George Baxter, Ivan Triesault, Norman Leavitt

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King Kong (1976) - (Jessica Lange) Italian four-sheet

This is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster for the 1976 John Guillermin film King Kong based on a story by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose and starring Jeff Bridges as Jack Prescott and Jessica Lange as Dwan. Plot summary: While exploring for oil the Petrox Company captures a giant ape on a remote island. They plan to make money with it in international exhibitions, but then the ape becomes restless.

Cast and crew: John Guillermin, Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois,Julius Harris, Jack O'Halloran, Dennis Fimple, Ed Lauter, Jorge Moreno, Mario Gallo, John Lone, Garry Walberg, John Agar, Keny Long, World Trade Center

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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) - (Elvis Presley) Italian four-sheet

Pictured is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster for the 1963 Norman Taurog film It Happened at the World's Fair based on a screenplay by Si Rose and Seaman Jacobs and starring Elvis Presley as Mike Edwards. Plot summary: Mike Edwards and Danny Burke [Gary Lockwood] go to Seattle during the 1962 World's Fair to try to earn some money after losing the aircraft they were operating as a cropduster. In Seattle, Mike soon has his hands full with two different girlfriends and a young girl named Sue-Lin [Vicky Tiu] he agrees to babysit for a local farmer [Walter Ling].

Cast and crew: Elvis Presley, Ted Richmond, Norman Taurog, Si Rose, Seaman Jacobs, Joan O'Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, H. M. Wynant, Edith Atwater, Guy Raymond, Dorothy Green, Kam Tong, Yvonne Craig