Movie Poster Collecting

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

St. Louis Blues (1958) - (Nat Cole) US three-sheet

St. Louis Blues (1958) - (Nat King Cole) US three-sheet poster

Pictured is a 41" x 81" US three-sheet poster for the 1958 Allen Reisner film St. Louis Blues written by Ted Sherdeman and Robert Smith and starring Nat King Cole as W.C. Handy. Plot Summary: The film is based on the life of W.C. Handy; it depicts his upbringing and professional career as publisher and composer of blues songs. It features performances of Handy's classic compositions.

Cast and crew: Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, Ruby Dee, Juano Hernandez, Teddy Buckner, Barney Bigard, George Callender, Lee Young, George Washington, Billy Preston, Robert Smith, Allen Reisner, Ted Sherdeman, W. C. Handy

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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Space Raiders (1983) - (Vince Edwards) US one-sheet

Space Raiders (1983) - (Vince Edwards) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" US poster for the 1983 Howard R. Cohen film Space Raiders AKA Star Child produced by Roger Corman, written by Howard R. Cohen and starring Vince Edwards as Hawk. The film was criticized for its reuse of special effects footage and music from the 1980 Jimmy T. Murakami film Battle beyond the Stars, also produced by Roger Corman. Plot summary: Captain C. F. "Hawk" Hawkens is a former space service colonel who has become a pirate. His mission is to lead his crew on a raid to steal a corporate space freighter. When they steal it they do not realize the stolen ship has aboard a ten-year-old stowaway named Peter [David Mendenhall]. Peter's father instigates a search for him using a robot battle cruiser that can track him with an identity tag he is wearing. Moreover, some bounty hunters also soon detect Peter's presence and begin an effort to capture him so they can collect a ransom.

Cast and crew: Howard R. Cohen, David Mendenhall, Patsy Pease, Roger Corman, Vince Edwards, Thom Christopher, Luca Bercovici, Drew Snyder, Ray Stewart, George Dickerson, Michael Miller, Virginia Kiser, Don Washburn, William Boyett, Howard Dayton, Dick Miller, Elizabeth Charlton, Suzan Hollis, Laura Coles

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Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (R1980) - (Nicholas Hammond) Spanish one-sheet

Spider Man: The Dragon's Challenge (R1980) - (Nicholas Hammond) Spanish one-sheet

Pictured is a 27" x 39" Spanish one-sheet for a 1980 rerelease of the 1979 Don McDougall film Spider Man: The Dragon's Challenge written by Lionel E. Siegel based on the character created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and starring Nicholas Hammond as Spiderman. The film is a Rhino Home Video release of the two-hour finale from a 13-part TV series. Plot summary: Spider Man as Peter Parker tries to prove the innocence of J. Jonah Jameson [Robert F. Simon], China's minister of industrial development, who has gone to the USA to live with his Chinese-American niece Emily [Rosalind Chao] after being falsely accused by the Chinese government of having been a spy during World War II. Parker faces opposition from a Hong Kong businessman who wants a new minister of industrial development so he can get contracts with China.

Cast and crew: Lionel E. Siegel, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Nicholas Hammond, Robert F. Simon, Chip Fields, Elle Bry, Charles Fries, Daniel R. Goodman, Don McDougal, Rosalind Chao, Hagan Beggs, Richard Erdman, John Milford, Benson Fong, Anthony Charnota, George Cheung, Tony Clark, Ted Danson, Myron Heaaley, Michael Mancini

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Southern Comfort (1981) - (Keith Carradine) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1981 Walter hill film Southern Comfort written by Michael Kane, Walter Hill and David Giler and starring Keith Carradine as PFC Spencer. Plot summary: On a weekend maneuver in 1973 in a Louisiana swamp a squad of Louisiana National Guardsmen steals three canoes and uses them to cross a swamp. As the soldiers are paddling across the swamp the owners of the boats, a group of Cajun trappers, shoot and kill the squad's leader Staff Sergeant Poole [Peter Coyote] in a fit of rage. This sets off a long bloody confrontation which does not go well for the guardsmen.

Cast and crew: Michael Kane, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter, Lewis Smith, Walter Hill, Les Lannom, Peter Coyote, Alan Autry, Brion James, Sonny Landham, Allan Graf, Ned Dowd, Rob Ryder, Greg Guirard

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Monday, February 1, 2016

The Snorkel (1958) - (Peter van Eyck) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" original US one-sheet poster for the 1958 Guy Green Hammer Productions film The Snorkel based on a story by Anthony Dawson, screenplay by Peter Myers and Jimmy Sangster and starring Peter van Eyck as Paul Decker. Plot summary: Using a snorkel, Paul Decker contrives to murder his wife Madge in such a way that it appears to be a suicide. His stepdaughter Candy [Mandy Miller] believes he is the murderer, but he has an alibi. Paul's alibi is convincing but Candy still believes he murdered her mother.

Cast and crew: Guy Green, Anthony Dawson, Peter Myers, Jimmy Sangster, Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller, Gregoire Aslan, William Franklyn, Marie Burke, Irane Prador, Henri Vidon

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Skyjacked (1972) - (Charlton Heston) US one-sheet

Skyjacked (1972) - (Charlton Heston) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1972 John Guillermin film Skyjacked based on the 1970 David Harper novel Hijacked, screenplay by Stanley R. Greenberg and starring Charlton Heston as Captain Henry O'Hara. Plot summary: A Vietnam veteran named Sergeant Jerome K. Weber [James Brolin] hijacks a passenger aircraft, diverts it from its Minneapolis route to Anchorage Alaska and demands to be flown to Moscow.

Cast and crew: John Guillermin, Charlton Heston, James Brolin, David Harper, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Susan Dey, Roosevelt Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon, Ken Swofford, Leslie Uggams, Ross Elliott, Nicholas Hammond, Mike Henry, Jayson Kane, Stanley R. Greenberg, Leslie Uggams, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Roosevelt Grier

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Sky Riders (1976) - (James Coburn) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1976 Douglas Hickox film Sky Riders AKA Assault on th Forbidden Fortress based on a story by Hall T. Sprague and Bill McGaw, screenplay by Jack DeWitt, Stanley Mann and Garry Michael White and stawrring James Coburn as Jim McCabe. Plot summary: Ellen Bracken, [Susannah York] the wife of international industrialist Jonas Bracken, [Robert Culp] are kidnapped from their home in Athens Greece by a revolutionary terrorist group and taken to an abandoned monastery on a remote island. Ellen's ex-husband Jim McCabe hires a team of professional hang gliders to mount a rescue attempt.

Cast and crew: Douglas Hickox, Hall T. Sprague, Bill McGaw, Jack DeWitt, Stanley Mann, Garry Michael White, James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, Harry Andrews, John Beck, Zouzou, Kenneth Griffith, Werner Pochath, Antonis Antypas, Telis Zotos, Nikos Tsachiridis, Ernie F. Orsatti, Barbara Trentham, Henry Brown