I’ve never seen His Kind Of Woman, yet I came by 2 posters for it by accident. This 1951 film noir cum comedy (apparently) stars Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, billed as “the hottest combination to ever hit the screen.” Producer and RKO Studios boss Howard Hughes took out huge fireworks-shooting billboards in LA with…
Farewell My Lovely / The Long Goodbye
Here are a pair of posters for very different interpretations of Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye tough guy Philip Marlowe. The most famous incarnation of Marlowe is of course Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep, although former song-and-dance man Dick Powell’s surprisingly tough Marlowe in Murder My Sweet (an adaptation of Farewell My Lovely) runs…
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…