Once upon a time I used to listen to this pair of records quite a lot. The Dracula album has one side with an original vampire story narrated by Christopher Lee, whilst the other has ominous theme music from various Hammer films. The story had an intro that began with something like “you think you…
Dance With A Stranger
I have written elsewhere about how I am not normally a fan of photographic posters, but for this one I will make an exception. I really like the bold tinting and the minimalist, dramatic use of black space between the two main characters. I also remember the film (about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to…
Marnie
This is another poster I thought I had sold at auction and was glad to discover I hadn’t. Marnie isn’t the greatest Hitchcock by a long way. There’s been a great deal of debate about whether TIppi Hedren’s performance in the title role is deliberately mannered or just plain bad, and there have been…
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Here’s an original UK quad and a US re-release poster for this Steven Spielberg classic. I still have these, but neither are in the greatest condition, unfortunately. The UK quad is in the condition I bought it in – some tears and missing paper at the edges, which would be repairable if I were…
Film stills
I have never been particularly excited by film stills in the same way as I am for posters, but many people love to collect them. They are relatively cheap to pick up and easy to display. Back in the day, there was a thing called a ‘lobby card’, which was basically a hand tinted still…