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…
King Kong
The original 1933 King Kong has always been one of my favourite movies. I love everything about it, from concept to execution, and IMHO it still holds up nearly 90 years later. It was – and remains – a technical marvel of stop-motion animation. Animator Willis O’Brien managed to bring real pathos to an…
Live And Let Die/You Only Live Twice
One of these James Bond posters is an original, the other is a reprint. Can you tell which one is which? I bought these 2 posters together from a shop in Singapore, when I was living there. It was very unusual to find any places selling movie posters there, so when I saw these I…
La nuit du loup-garou
I thought I was done with buying movie posters, but this one I just could not resist. This is a French ‘moyenne’ (ie ‘medium size’) poster for the 1961 Hammer film The Curse of the Werewolf. I have already blogged about my Belgian poster for the same film here, which has now been supplanted as…
Crimes of Passion
This film is cinematic Marmite – you either love it or hate it. I am in the former camp, although quite what that says about me I don’t know. I remember going to see this while at university, with my friend John. We both really enjoyed it, to the point that he recommended it highly…
The Company of Wolves/An American Werewolf in London
Here are a couple of dramatic werewolf transformation stills from two very different movies. You can see elsewhere on my site that I am rather partial to a good werewolf movie. However, I never particularly liked The Company of Wolves. Director Neil Jordan made some cracking films (including Interview with the Vampire and Mona Lisa),…
The Two Jakes
This poster is the US one-sheet for the largely forgotten sequel to Chinatown. Chinatown is one of my all-time favourite movies. It is a fabulous evocation of a place and era, with a terrific twisty storyline, wonderful performances all round and a real sting in the tail. Chinatown wasn’t exactly crying out for a…