These mementoes of a bygone era evoke a classic touch of old-style Hollywood glamour. Paris Hollywood was a French glamour magazine that ran from 1947 to 1974. In its early incarnation, it featured Hollywood stars of the day on the covers, plus various pin-ups and the occasional tasteful nude shot inside. Within a few years…
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
In the 60s, melodramatic horror movies provided a late career fillip for a number of ageing Hollywood actresses. 1964’s Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte was originally conceived as a follow up to the hit Whatever Happened To Baby Jane. The plan was to again pair Bette Davis with Joan Crawford, to capitalise on their legendary real-life…
Joan Of Arc / Intermezzo
Here are a pair of very old Belgian posters for pivotal movies starring the late, great Ingrid Bergman. By the time she made 1948’s Joan of Arc, she was already a major Hollywood star, having won an Oscar for Gaslight and appeared opposite Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, her most famous role. She had also starred…
Saturday Night Fever
I must admit I never really ‘got’ this movie when it came out. I know it was a huge success and is now hailed as a classic, but I found it rather hokey at the time, and I still think it is somewhat over-rated. The movie’s effect on popular culture cannot be denied, however. It…
Soundtrack albums
Here is a selection of movie soundtrack vinyls I collected back in the 70s. I usually had not seen the movies at the time I bought the soundtracks, so my choice was largely based on the highly scientific approach of whether or not I liked the sleeve artwork! This also meant I hedged my bets…
Dracula Prince Of Darkness
This is another French ‘grande’ poster, this time for the direct sequel to Hammer’s original Dracula. I remember liking this film a lot when I first saw it on one of the late night horror double bills that the BBC used to run (typically a genteel black and white Universal monster movie followed…
Stage Fright / I Confess
These are two Belgian posters for 1950s Alfred Hitchcock movies. Stage Fright (1950) is not considered one of the greatest Hitchcock movies, by any means. But it does have one very interesting narrative conceit (look away now, spoiler alert!) – the flashback that lied. Jane Wyman spends most of the movie helping Richard Todd escape…
1970s poster magazines
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,…