The Devil's Brother (ND) - (Laurel and Hardy) Belgian rerelease poster

The Devil's Brother (ND) - (Laurel and Hardy) Belgian poster

This is an undated 14" x 21" Belgian poster for the 1933 Hal Roach and Charley Rogers film The Devil's Brother based on an adaptation by Jeanie Macpherson and starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as Stanlio and Ollio. The boys are robbed on their life savings, then fail when they try to rob the notorious bandit Fra Diavolo [Dennis King], who first resolves to kill them, then takes them on as his personal servants. In that capacity they carry him in a sedan chair disguised as the Marquis de San Marco and he attempts to rob Lord Rocburg [James Finlayson], but things don't go well.

Cast and crew: Hal Roach, Charley Rogers, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King, Thelma Todd, Jeanie Macpherson, James Finlayson, Lucile Browne, Arthur Pierson, Henry Armetta, Matt McHugh, Lane Chandler, Nina Qartero, Wilfred Lucas, James C. Morton

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The Devil's Partner (1961) - (Edwin Nelson) US one-sheet

The Devil's Partner (1961) - (Edwin Nelson) US one-sheet

This s 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1961 Charles R. Rondeau film The Devil's Partner based on a story by Stanley Clements and Laura Jean Mathews and starring Ed Nelson as both Nick Richards and Pete Jensen. This film was made in 1958 but was not released until 1961 when it came out as a double feature with Creature from the Haunted Sea, released by the Roger and Gene Corman Filmgroup. Plot summary: In the town of Furnace Flats, an old man named Pete Jensen dies soon after performing an act of sorcery in his cabin. Immediately thereafter Nick Richards comes to town on a bus, claiming Pete, who had not been liked by the people of Furnace Flats, was his uncle. The sheriff [Spencer Carlisle] tells him about Pete's death. Nick decides to move into his uncle's cabin and remain in Furnace Flats, where he himself starts doing sorcery, appearing in the guise of local livestock and wildlife to do malicious acts of vengeance against some of his late uncle's former neighbors. In one scene, a man buys 6.5 gallons of gasoline for $2.30!

Cast and crew: Stanley Clements, Laura Jean Mathews, Jean Allison, Edwin Nelson, Hugh M. Hooker, Charles R. Rondeau, Hugh Hooker, Richard Dixon, Daniel Haller, Howard Epstein, Edward Cronjager, Ronald Stein, Robert Eaton, Richard Crane, Spencer Carlisle, Byron Foulger, Claire Carleton, Brian O'Hara, Harry Fleer, Joe Hooker

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Last in, First Out [L'ordre et la sécurité du monde] (1978) - (Bruno Cremer) Polish one-sheet

Last In, First Out [L'ordre et la sécurité du monde] (1978) - (Bruno Cremer) Polish one-sheet

This is a 26" x 37" Polish poster designed by Marak Ploza Dolinsiki to promote the 1978 Claude d'Anna film Last In, First Out (originally L'ordre et la sécurité du monde) based on screenplay by Cluade d'Anna and Marie-Francoise Bonin, English screenplay by Gustave Reininger and starring Bruno Cremer as Lucas Richter. Plot summary: This is a film about a woman on a train who attracts the attention of the KGB and the CIA, both of whom think she's a spy.

Cast and crew: Claude d'Anna, Marak Ploza Dolinsiki, Mari-Francoise Bonin, Bruno Cremer, Donald Pleasence, Laure Dechasnel, Dennis Hopper, Joseph Cotten, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Bouquet, Pierre Santini, Henri Serre, Baaron, Gerard Essomba, Robert Darmel, Georges Montillier, Vernon Dobtcheff, Alain Flick

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Godzilla vs. Gigan (R1973) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Italian two-sheet

Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) - (dir: Jun Fukuda) Italian two-sheet

This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster for a 1973 Italian rerelease of the 1972 Jun Fukuda film Godzilla vs. Gigan AKA Godzilla on Monster Island (the name of the film for its 1978 US release) based on a story by Takeshi Kimura and starring Hiroshi Ishikawa as Gengo Kotaka. The poster incorrectly says this film was directed by Ishiro Honda. Plot summary: While working at World Children's Land as a Manga cartoonist, Gengo Kotaka unexpectedly discovers a plan by giant insectoid aliens from a dying planet to colonize the earth. The plan's first step is to wipe out human civilization with the aid of the space monsters Gigan and King Ghidorah. When Gengo and his friends play the plan's action signal, Godzilla and Anguirus hear it. Realizing something is amiss, Godzilla sends Anguirus to Tokyo to investigate, but Japanese defensive forces do not realize his friendly intentions and drive him away. When Godzilla returns to Tokyo with Anguirus, they have to fight Gigan and King Ghidorah to save the earth.

Cast and crew: Jan Fukuda, Takeshi Kimura, Shi'ichi Sekizawa, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima, Tomoko Umeda, Toshiaki Nishizawa, Zan Fujita, Kunio Murai, Gen Shimizu, Zeko Nakamura, Kuniko Ashihara, Akio Murata, Noritake Saito, Yasuhiko Saijo, Naoya Kusakawa, Wataru Omae

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The Deep Blue Sea (Kenneth More) - (1955) Argentine one-sheet

Deep Blue Sea (1955) - (Vivien Leigh) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1955 Anatole Litvak film The Deep Blue Sea based on play and screenplay by Terence Rattigan and starring Vivien Leigh as Hester Collyer and Kenneth More as Freddie Page. The design of this Argentine poster is derived directly from that of the US one-sheet, shown in the Wikipedia article about this film. Plot summary: Hester Collyer, who is not happy in her lackluster marriage, succumbs to the amorous advances of a dashing test pilot named Freddie Page. The two of them have an opportunity to spend time together when Hester's husband Judge William Collyer [Emlyn Williams] goes away for a month. Page is soon deeply conflicted because of the problems with his relationship with another man's wife. Off the screen, Kenneth More was also reportedly unhappy with the casting of Leigh because he felt she was wrong for the role. Despite these problems, for his work in this film More won the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for best actor.

Cast and crew: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Anatole Litvak, Moira Lister, Arthur Hill, Dandy Nichols, Jimmy Hanley, Miriam Karlin, Heather Thatcher, Bill Shine, Brian Oulton, Sidney James, Alec McCowen, Gibb McLaughlin

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Prison Camp Girls (1983) - (Udo Kier) Egyptian and Italian Posters

Prison Camp Girls (1983) - (Udo Kier) Egyptian one-sheet

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Prison Camp Girls (1983) - (Udo Kier) Italian one-sheet

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Pictured above are a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster and a 26.5" x 38.5" Italian poster for the 1983 Kurt Raab film Prison Camp Girls AKA Escape from Blood Plantation, Island of the Bloody Plantation and Jailed for Love with the original German title Die Insel der blutigen Plantage. The Egyptian poster is a 1987 rerelease using art by Mohammad Abdel Ghani, printed by Al-Qods Printers in Cairo's Bulaq District and distributed by the Arabic Films Company on Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street. Both posters are based on the same design but the Egyptian poster adds a painted image of a still and the inset in the Italian poster is a picture of Udo Kier. The film is based on a story by director Kurt Raab and stars Udo Kier as Hermano. Plot summary: At a women's prison camp in the South Pacific the inmates are systematically raped, tortured and abused, but a guard falls in love with one of them and allies himself with the cause of the prisoners.

Cast and crew: Udo Kier, Barbara Valentin, Tet Antiquiera, Karlo-Otto Alberty, Karen Lopez, Karl-Otto Alberty, Kurt Raab, Hans Zander, Karina Fallenstein, Mike Monty, Rosemarie Sarita, Peter Kern, Fouad Mediouni-Zaoudi, Ronald Buenaventura

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Gator Bait (1974) - (Claudia Jennings) American and Egyptian posters

Gator Bait (1974) - (Claudia Jennings) US 40x60

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Gator Bait (R1984) - (Claudia Jennings) Egyptian one-sheet

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Pictured above are a US 40" x 60" poster and an Egyptian 27" x 39" one-sheet R1984 poster using art by Anise to promote the 1974 Beverly and Ferd Sebastian film Gator Bait based on story and screenplay by Beverly Sebastian and starring Claudia Jennings as Desiree Thibodeau. Plot summary: Desiree is a poacher living deep in the Louisiana swamps. Two deputies catch her in the act and give chase, hoping to extract sexual favors but one of them accidentally shoots the other and then blames Desiree when he goes home. The sheriff and his deputies go to Desiree's family home in the forest demanding information about her whereabouts but end up killing her sister Julie [Janit Baldwin] instead. An enraged Desiree and her mute little brother silently follow the intruders moving among the trees, turning the remainder of the sheriff's swamp excursion into a living hell.

Cast and crew: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian, Claudia Jennings, Sam Gilman, Douglas Dirkson, Clyde Ventura, Bill Thurman, Don Baldwin, Janit Baldwin, Tracy Sebastian

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