Tag: Ray Milland

The Lost Weekend

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Billy Wilde’s 1945 Oscar-winning movie about alcoholism.   This is a super-rare Belgian poster, featuring star Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer on the mother of all benders. The movie won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Wilder, and Best Actor for Milland. Interestingly, the liquor industry…


The Pit and the Pendulum / The Premature Burial

This is a pair of Belgian posters for two of the series of loose Edgar Allen Poe adaptations that legendary producer Roger Corman directed in the 60s.   These followed on the success of Corman’s House Of Usher adaptation for American International Pictures. All starred Vincent Price, who is the one in the cowl in…