Movie Poster Collecting

Monday, February 16, 2015

Rome against Rome (1964) - (John Drew Barrymore) Italian busta

Rome against Rome (1964) - (John Drew Barrymore) Italian Busta

This is an 18" x 26" Italian busta poster for the 1964 Giuseppe Vari film Rome against Rome AKA War of the Zombies AKA Night Star: Goddess of Electra with original Italian title Roma contro Roma, based on a story by Ferruccio De Martino and Massimo De Reta and starring John Drew Barrymore as Aderbad. Plot summary: This is a peplum fantasy horror epic about zombie civil war in the Roman Empire. A band of renegades steals the treasure of Sarmatia from Rome and the centurion Gaius [Ettore Manni] is sent to recover it. The rebel leader Aderbad invokes the evil powers of the Goddess of Electra to mobilize dead Roman soldiers as zombie warriors against the Roman army. This busta shows a blinded Aderbad leaning over the body of Tulia [Susy Andersen] after killing her.

Cast and crew: John Drew Barrymore, Giuseppe Vari, Ferruccio De Martino, Massimo De Rita, Susy Anderson, Ettore Mani, Ida Galli, Mino Doro, Ivano Staccioli, Philippe Hersent, Andrea Checchi, Liva Contardi, Mathilda Calnan, Rosy Zichel, Antonio Corevi, Giulio Maculani

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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Rails into Laramie (1954) - (John Payne) US insert

This is a 14" x 36" US insert poster for the 1954 Jesse Hibbs film Rails into Laramie based on a story by D. D. Beauchamp and Joseph Hoffman and starring John Payne as Jefferson Hareder. Plot summary: Sergeant Jefferson Harder receives an unexpected promotion to captain and is sent to Laramie by his commanding officer General Augur [Stephen Chase] to find out out why the railroad construction has stopped, delaying completion of the transcontinental railroad. Harder finds a town so spoiled by gambling and drinking that the population is too corrupt and undisciplined to build the railroad; he proceeds to shut down the bars and fire the ineffective managers and workers. This leads to an armed and legal clash with Jim Shanessy [Dan Duryea], the local saloon owner and kingpin who is behind all the malfunctions. The first all-women jury in the US convened in Laramie with Shanessy's business partner Lou Carter [Mari Blanchard] serving as forewoman to bring justice for the murder of Marshal Orrie Summers [James Griffith], done on Shanessy's orders by Con Winton [Lee Van Cleef].

Cast and crew: Jesse Hibbs, D.D.Beauchamp, Jospeh Hoffman, John Payne, Mari Blanchard, Dan Duryea, Rex Allen, Joyce Mackenzie, Barton MacLane, Ralph Dumke, Harry Shannon, James Griffith, Lee Van Cleef, Myron Healey, Douglas Kennedy, George Chandler, Alexander Campbell, Charles Horvath, Alden Stephen

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Rawhide (R1956) - (Tyrone Power) US title card

Pictured is a US 11" x 14" title card for a 1956 rerelease of the 1951 Henry Hathaway film Rawhide based on a story by Dudley Nichols and starring Tyrone Power as Tom Owens and Susan Hayward as Vinnie Holt. Plot summary: Rawhide is a desert stagecoach stop where Vinnie Holt finds herself and her niece stranded with the assistant stationmaster Tom Owens after stationmaster Sam Todd [Edgar Buchanan] has been killed by a fugitive murderer named Rafe Zimmerman [Hugh Marlowe] and his three henchmen. Tension runs high while the outlaws wait with their hostages for the next stage so they can rob it, but events take an unexpected turn. Jack Elam is especially good in this film in his role as the deranged outlaw Tevis, who takes an unhealthy interest in Vinnie.

Cast and crew: Henry Hathaway, Dudley Nichols, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Jeff Corey, James Millican, Louis Jean Heydt, William Haade, Milton R. Corey Sr., Kenneth Tobey, Dan White, Max Terhune

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Queen of the Pirates (1961) - (Gianna Maria Canale) US insert

This is a US 14" x 36" insert poster for the 1960 Mario Costa film Queen of the Pirates based on a story by John Byrne and Kurt Nachmann and starring Gianna Maria Canale as Sandra. Plot summary: This film is a tale of 16th century Italy set on the Adriatic coast. Sandra, the daughter of a naval officer, is sold into slavery in the Middle East along with her father Captain Mirko [Jose Jaspe]. When the daughter escapes with her father's help she becomes queen of the Adriatic pirates. The original Italian title is La Venere del pirati.

Cast and crew: Mario Costa, John Byrne, Kurt Nachmann, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scillla Gabel, Livio Lorenzon, Paul Muller, Moira Orfel, Jose Jaspe, Giustino Durano, Andrea Aureli, Franco Fantasia, Nando Tamberlani, Giulio Battiferri, Luigi Marturano, Gianni Solaro, Annamaria Mustari

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Jafar Panahi, Iranian Dissident Film

Jafar Panahi just won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for his film Taxi, although he is not allowed to leave Iran.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

The Pride of St. Louis (1952) - (Dan Dailey) US title card

This is an 11" x 14" US title card for the 1952 Harmon Jones film The Pride of St. Louis based on story by Guy Trosper, screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz and starring Dan Dailey as Dizzy Dean. Plot summary: This film tells the story of the life and and broadcasting career of Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean (1910-1974), pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s and television sports commentator in the years after foot and arm injuries ended his baseball career. A major part of the film covers Dean's relationship with his wife Patricia Nash [Joanne Dru]. In 1999 The Sporting News listed Dean as one of the 100 greatest baseball players.

Cast and crew: Harmon Jones, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Guy Trosper, Dan Dailey, Joanne Dru, Richard Hylton, Richard Crenna, Hugh Sanders, Dizzy Dean, Hugh Sanders, James Brown, Leo Cleary, Jerome Herman Dean

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Friday, February 13, 2015

One-eyed Jacks (1961) - (Marlon Brando) US one-sheet Mexican three-sheet

One-Eyed Jacks (1961) - (Marlon Brando) Mexican three-sheet

One-Eyed Jacks (1961) - (Marlon Brando) US one-sheet

Pictured above are a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster and a 41" x 81" three-piece Mexican three-sheet poster for the 1961 Marlon Brando film One-Eyed Jacks based on the Charles Neider novel The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones with screenplay by Guy Trosper and Calder Willingham and starring Marlon Brando as Rio. Plot summary: In Sonora Mexico in 1880 Rio and his partner Dad Longworth [Karl Malden] rob a bank of two bags of gold, but during their attempted escape Dad betrays Rio and leaves him to be captured and imprisoned. Rio spends five years in a prison in Sonora. After his release he finds that his former pal Longworth has become sheriff of Monterey; their conflicts resume, initially behind a thin veneer of cordiality and then much more openly. This is the only film directed by Marlon Brando; it is considered a precursor for Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns a few years later, where audiences learned for the first time to identify with the "bad guys" in Western movies.

Cast and crew: Marlon Brando, Karl Malen, Pina Pellicer, Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, Larry Duran, Sam Gilman, Timothy Carey, Miriam Colon, Elisha Cook Jr., Rudolfo Acosta, Joan Petrone, Tom Webb, Ray Teal, John Dierkes