Fantastic Film Posters - What's Striking Your Fancy?

[erik1925]

I saw an actual copy of this recently, and it is even more stunning in person. The colors are just amazing and striking!! 

La Notte (1961), Italian 2F

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

The RealArt House of Dracula insert recently sold for $2,500.  All the posters for this movie are pretty good:

[crowzilla]

From the 1947RR pressbook, these Frankenstein/Dracula combo posters... the US OS and the 3sh.  Spectacular, imo!! 
Do copies of either of these exist?

Unfortunately, just like the half sheet and insert for the single films, that combo one-sheet is also duo-tone.
And while some people may say the duo-tone pieces are nice, the demand for them is very low; I had a nice unrestored half sheet for Dracula listed on my old site at $2500 for the longest time (and around the time I had sold two copies of the one-sheet at $42,000 and $47,000 each).
It was quite baffling

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Mel, I have the Realart HoD proudly displayed. It is a better poster I think than the original and very colorful

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Mel, I have the Realart HoD proudly displayed. It is a better poster I think than the original and very colorful

Yep, the RealArt beats the original by a country mile.

Now for something new under the sun: King Kong French Double Panel Style B (from Heritage):

[110x75]

Apes!!!!!!!!!

[Harry Caul]

 

[CSM]

It's quite clear where the inspiration for the baby Ingagi came from:

[erik1925]

Yep, the RealArt beats the original by a country mile.

Now for something new under the sun: King Kong French Double Panel Style B (from Heritage):

I think some of Bruce Cabot's extended neck should have been delegated to Robert Armstrong, on this one. And when did Wray go brown-auburn?  

But I like Kong's stylized facial features, tho..     it's different and more unique.  And a great looking poster, even so.

[Harry Caul]

I think some of Bruce Cabot's extended neck should have been delegated to Robert Armstrong, on this one. And when did Wray go brown-auburn?  

But I like Kong's stylized facial features, tho..     it's different and more unique.  And a great looking poster, even so.

Yikes, I didn't even notice those all the funky necks.  I was just amused by Catfish Kong

[erik1925]

Maybe that is Kong more drooling in anticipation? 

[Mirosae]

It's quite clear where the inspiration for the baby Ingagi came from:

Ay..Mama.......

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Had not seen these one sheets for Taming of the Shrew (1929) before:

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Lady of Shanghai, The (1947 France 1P Style B): Yowza!  This could be the most spectacular movie poster ever IMO....

http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7098&lotIdNo=11266

[Mirosae]

It is delightful. Agree.

[CSM]

It is nice for sure but I still prefer the Italian:

[Harry Caul]

A great depiction of Rita for sure... it's unfortunate that the copy being offered is SO BADLY faded. Look at Orson and Rita's skin tones in their embrace at right.  Yikes.  And this is even after "Color touchup has also been applied to correct slight fading."  It looks like the punched up the lips and maybe added some yellow back in the hair to give some definition.  I'm with Chris on this one anyway... as nice as this poster is, I much prefer the Italian. 


Still, can anyone name another movie where so many countries consistently came up with such striking designs? 

[CSM]

Still, can anyone name another movie where so many countries consistently came up with such striking designs? 

It's all because of Rita

And great observation Matt.  Did not realize it was so faded (and it clearly is substantially - the red Columbia logo is nearly non-existent!)

[Louie D.]

Lady of Shanghai, The (1947 France 1P Style B): Yowza!  This could be the most spectacular movie poster ever IMO....

To much blue, IMO.

[Mirosae]

I love Ballester. But on this occasion I take the FR. Thanks Matt for posting another one in its full glory.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Here they are head to head - I still prefer the French (not proportional, the French is slightly larger):




P.S. I used the "remove color cast" command to whiten/brighten images above by selecting the interior of the word "Rita" - which presumably was originally pure white - in both posters.  It's difficult to know just how "white" the original paper was.  I assume the original paper was pretty close to pure white.  Below is a pic of my very-well-preserved "Colossus of New York" (1958) that, despite 56 years of acidification, still looks very white. I've inserted a new white piece of paper for comparison:

[oldposterho]

The French is nice but there are a couple of reasons I prefer the Italian.  Frankly the US 3 sheet is before it too.  Different strokes and all...

--Peter

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

US posters:

[CSM]

Lady From Shanghai has one of the best (and most appropriate) poster taglines!

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

- not:

City For Conquest (1940 US insert)