This is the oldest poster I own and, unusually, it is for a movie I have never seen (or at least not that I can remember). This is a UK quad for one of the original Universal monster movies. The Mummy’s Hand was released in 1940 but I got this poster checked by a valuation…
From Russia With Love
Sometimes you can’t but end up kicking yourself for what seemed like a good idea at the time. By 2003 I had amassed a large collection of movie posters, of which I was only able to display a small fraction. I had also moved for work to Asia and was only able to bring…
Dirty Harry / Magnum Force
This was the first movie poster I ever bought. I remember it distinctly as I bought it when Pinewood Film Studios had their first (and as far as I know only) open day back in 1977. I persuaded (ok forced) my mum and dad to take me and we spent the day touring the various sound…
Thunderball
This poster holds special meaning for me because it was the first film I ever saw in the cinema. It was 1972 I think, I would have been 8. My dad took me and a friend to a James Bond double bill at the Nottingham Odeon. (This was back in the days both the Nottingham…