This is a trio of original Belgian posters for Alfred Hitchcock movies from the late 40s that I bought last year. Notorious is one of Hitchcock’s most famous classic thrillers, with great set-pieces and fantastic chemistry between leads Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Mint copies of this poster have sold for over $1000 at auction….
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…
Marnie
This is another poster I thought I had sold at auction and was glad to discover I hadn’t. Marnie isn’t the greatest Hitchcock by a long way. There’s been a great deal of debate about whether TIppi Hedren’s performance in the title role is deliberately mannered or just plain bad, and there have been…
North by Northwest
I am a huge Alfred Hitchcock fan. This is a horizontal Belgian poster for my all-time favourite Hitchcock movie. North by Northwest features the famous crop duster suspense sequence, a memorable climax on the face of Mount Rushmore, and some great chemistry between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. Grant plays a slick New York adman, which also…