Without reading the English text, would you be able to guess the famous movie title from this poster?  

Le Prix Du Silence is the French language title for the 1949 adaptation of…The Great Gatsby, no less.  

However, you would be hard-pressed to know that from the imagery here.  Alan Ladd in a trench coat and fedora, a few femme fatales and a speeding car all indicate a film noir hard-boiled thriller, not an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel.

This adaptation was hampered at the time by censorship issues and largely buried by the studio after its release. It is largely forgotten now, superseded by more recent and much more lavish versions starring, respectively, Robert Redford and Leonardo de Caprio.

This Belgian poster is understandably rare, but as I’ve never seen the movie I put it up for sale a while ago. It was snapped up almost immediately by a collector.