These poster magazines became quite a thing for movie buffs in the UK in the 70s. I have already posted on my collection of Monster Mag, which folded out to reveal a huge, and usually gory, movie still. Not to be outdone, these rival themed horror poster mags promised ‘two giant posters inside.” In its…
Splash
Splash is on paper a movie that really should not work. I remember being sent to review this for the student paper and rolled my eyes at the “man falls in love with mermaid” high concept. I was fully prepared for it to be terrible, but it turned out to be one of the best…
Eureka / Bad Timing
These are two posters for movies by the late English auteur Nicolas Roeg. Roeg is probably best known for Don’t Look Now, his nightmarish loose adaptation of a Daphne de Maurier story and The Man Who Fell To Earth, which memorably cast David Bowie as an alien. Eureka and Bad Timing both came after these,…
The Sound Of Music
I must admit I have never been a huge fan of movie musicals. My wife, however, loves them! The Sound Of Music is her all-time favourite movie. So I was happy recently to be able to pick up this US one-sheet poster from the original first release. (It went into limited release with a view…
The Roaring Twenties / High Sierra
Here are a pair of original stills for two Humphrey Bogart classics. I am not an avid collector of film stills, and I do not pretend to know much about how to authenticate them as originals. These both appealed, however – both in terms of the images, plus I particularly like the text at the…
Where Eagles Dare
“Broadsword calling Danny Boy…” If those words jump out at you then, like me, you’ve probably sat through Where Eagles Dare multiple times. It remains one of the very best WWII “men on a mission’ movies – terrific action sequence, a twisty (and admittedly somewhat ridiculous) plot, plus great chemistry between Richard Burton’s verbose British…
Countess Dracula
This eerie poster is for one of the better latter-day Hammer horrors. Hammer’s output in the 1970s was patchy at best, as the company increasingly came to play up nudity in the mix to sell tickets for movies such as The Vampire Lovers and Vampire Circus. This film’s title is (deliberately) misleading however – there’s…