Normally I try to post memorabilia from movies I like. But here are a pair of stills in my collection from one of my least favourite movies ever. I saw the original version of Red Dawn when I was reviewing movies for the student newspaper at university. I hated it from the off, but felt…
Twins of Evil / Hands of the Ripper
This double bill poster is for two of the more memorable latter-day Hammer horrors. Twins of Evil had Peter Cushing and twin lesbian vampire sisters to recommend it, but skimming through it again recently on You Tube it all looks rather cheap and style-free. I’ve not seen Hands of the Ripper in years but…
The Outlaw Josey Wales
I’ve always been a big Clint Eastwood fan. This is my favourite Clint western, and one of my favourite poster images from his films. The movie is a redemption story, some say a Vietnam war allegory, of a farmer who becomes an outlaw when his family is murdered. He then makes a long journey…
Point Blank / Payback
These two hard-boiled thrillers make for an interesting movie pairing. Point Blank was released in 1967, starring Lee Marvin, directed by John Boorman, and is held up as something of a ‘noir’ classic. It is basically a revenge story. In it, a double-crossed career criminal, shot and left for dead, works his way up through…
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
This is the soundtrack album for a somewhat underrated yet very enjoyable Francis Ford Coppola movie. Tucker flopped upon release and has never been held in the same regard as Coppola’s earlier classics such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Its certainly much more lightweight than those movies (deliberately so), but its a terrific, stylish…
The Seven Year Itch
I recently bought this great poster. It is for the German 1966 re-release of this 1955 movie and is, I think, the most striking original Marilyn Monroe movie poster design I have ever seen. This poster was designed by the German artist Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch and is reminiscent to some degree of the Andy Warhol Marilyn…
James Bond paperbacks
Here is a post with a slight difference. And, yes, there’s still a movie memorabilia connection….. This is a selection of vintage James Bond paperbacks by Ian Fleming, as collected by my late father. I’m not sure if he ever read them (he certainly could not remember doing so), but these date back to 1961…
Ben Hur / King of Kings
‘Sword and sandal’ movies are probably one of my least favourite genres. But they do make for spectacular posters! I will make exceptions for Gladiator and Spartacus, but in general these lengthy quasi-historical Roman/Biblical epics bore me to tears. They were however hugely popular in the 60s (and hugely expensive too – the excesses involved…
Once Upon A Time In America
This is a still from one of the most epic gangster movies ever made. Once Upon A Time In America was the final film by the Italian maestro Sergio Leone, who had made the Dollars trilogy with Clint Eastwood, plus the equally epic Once Upon A Time In The West. I saw …America when I…
Zardoz / The Final Programme
These are two of the weirdest movies to come out of the UK in the 70s. I’m posting the Zardoz UK quad in memory of the late, great Sir Sean Connery, although in all honesty this is probably not the movie for which he would most like to be remembered! Zardoz was a sci-fi movie…