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…
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,…
The Sound Of Music
I must admit I have never been a huge fan of movie musicals. My wife, however, loves them! The Sound Of Music is her all-time favourite movie. So I was happy recently to be able to pick up this US one-sheet poster from the original first release. (It went into limited release with a view…
Where Eagles Dare
“Broadsword calling Danny Boy…” If those words jump out at you then, like me, you’ve probably sat through Where Eagles Dare multiple times. It remains one of the very best WWII “men on a mission’ movies – terrific action sequence, a twisty (and admittedly somewhat ridiculous) plot, plus great chemistry between Richard Burton’s verbose British…
Rust Never Sleeps
This is a movie that I have never seen, although I have listened to the soundtrack album many times. Rust Never Sleeps was a concert film made in 1979 as a showcase for Neil Young and Crazy Horse. I saw Neil Young once years ago (on the “Trans” tour, super-fans) and frankly I found it…
This Woman Is Dangerous / Mommie Dearest
There’s no two ways about it – Joan Crawford had a reputation as an out and out bitch. I’ve not seen This Woman is Dangerous as far as I can recall, but it is a melodramatic noir thriller from 1952. I bought this poster cheaply because I thought it was a great image and with…
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