Fritz Lang’s 1953 crime thriller is now considered one of the classic film noirs. The movie stars Glenn Ford as a homicide cop. Plus, there’s an early role for Lee Marvin as a heavy who, in the movie’s most famous scene, throws a pot of boiling coffee in his moll Gloria Grahame’s face, badly scarring…
Cry Danger
Here’s another cool poster for a movie I don’t think I have ever seen. Cry Danger is a 1951 film noir, with a plot centering around the old staple of a man sentenced to prison for a crime he did not commit. He is played by Dick Powell. Powell had an interesting career, to say…
The Spiral Staircase
Now here’s a rarity: this is a Swedish poster (the only one I own) for this 1946 film noir. I have this poster up for sale here, but if nobody buys it soon I may opt to hold onto it and get it framed. I really like the very graphic visual, which I think captures…
The Roaring Twenties / High Sierra
Here are a pair of original stills for two Humphrey Bogart classics. I am not an avid collector of film stills, and I do not pretend to know much about how to authenticate them as originals. These both appealed, however – both in terms of the images, plus I particularly like the text at the…
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…
Cape Fear
Here are two very different posters for both versions of Cape Fear, 30 years apart. The first is a Belgian poster for the Gregory Peck/Robert Mitchum 1962 version. Cape Fear is a taut noir-style thriller about an upright lawyer tormented by a recently paroled psycho he helped put in jail. The French title “les nerfs…