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Title: REAR WINDOW
Date: 1954
Size: Original U.S. insert 14"x36".
Price: £1850.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Enjoying a deservedly stellar reputation as the pinnacle of Hitch's technical mastery, original posters on 'Rear Window' are very sought after and hard to find. This original insert, along with the very expensive 1-sheet and 3-sheet, is one of the top three posters on the film. Fine + condition.
Title: SOME LIKE IT HOT
Date: 1959
Size: Original U.S. insert 14"x36".
Price: £1250.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: This superb and very scarce poster is a clear candidate for the best on the film. Only the 'B' style half sheet comes close. This and 'The Apartment' the following year saw Billy Wilder hit his peak. Monroe drove him to distraction, but the results were worth it. V. Fine - condition.
Title: GET CARTER
Date: 1971
Size: Original Australian daybill 13"x30".
Price: £350.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Fittingly stark and powerful design, the best on the film along with the British quad. The film's brutality, grim atmosphere and subject matter did not endear itself to most critics at the time. Note the interesting deleted scene second from left. Excellent condition.
Title: ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
Date: 1969
Size: Japanese 29"x20".
Price: £650.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: The best poster on the film and one of the most distinctive of all the Japanese Bond posters. The position of the gun and the part-shadowed face keep the identity of the new Bond somewhat mysterious, something also found on the US advance 1-sheet.
Excellent condition.
Title: NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Date: 1959
Size: Belgian 14"x22".
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: First release English language posters are poor. This classic Belgian poster is by far the best on the film from any date.
Excellent condition.
Title: POINT BLANK
Date: 1967
Size: Original U.S. 40"x60".
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: The classic artwork for John Boorman's superb avant garde crime film, but here on a rare larger format, silkscreen printed. U.S. 40"x60"s, often colourful and spectacular, rarely surface on the best titles. We have only found this poster once before.
V. Good + condition, unfolded.
Title: LAUREL AND HARDY - BELOW ZERO
Date: 1930
Size: U.S. rerelease lobby card 11"x14", c. late 1940s.
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: A very unusual and rare undated rerelease lobby card for one of Laurel and Hardy's most brilliant shorts. Original release cards from their early films hardly ever surface now. A number of their films were rereleased in the late 40s and this superb card, which we have never seen before, is most likely from that period. Fine + condition.
Title: GOODFELLAS
Date: 1980
Size: Original Warner Bros 8"x10" Dirck Halstead photograph.
Price: £125.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Magnificent portrait by Dirck Halstead, one of America's greatest photographers of (rather appropriately) war and politics. Halstead's studio shots were incorporated into the 1-sheet poster and a similar shot including Scorcese is found in the ultra-rare deluxe photo set, but are otherwise hard to find. Excellent condition.
Title: STEVE MCQUEEN - BULLITT
Date: 1968
Size: Original Warner Bros. 8"x10" still.
Price: £150.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: McQueen's co-star in the classic San Francisco police thriller Jacqueline Bisset was actually born in Surrey. 'Bullitt' was an important early role.
V. Fine condition.
Title: PAPILLON
Date: 1973
Size: Original 8"x10" Paramount photograph.
Price: £185.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Superb quality original candid photo. The shoot (in Spain and Jamaica) was a gruelling one, as is clear from this photo. McQueen appears equally and characteristically undaunted, although he and Hoffman were barely talking by the end. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (see 'Roman Holiday' below).
Excellent condition. Scarce.
Title: THE GRADUATE
Date: 1968
Size: Original U.S. 11"x14" lobby card #2.
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: This card is from the very first Embassy Pictures release. The film was then picked up by United Artists, who issued a different poster and removed the witty graduate/leg graphic from the lobby card border.
V. Fine condition.
Title: BACK TO THE FUTURE
Date: 1985
Size: Original Australian Daybill 13"x30"
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: Art by Drew Struzan. Under the prolifically talented brush of Drew, the art of the film poster enjoyed one last hurrah in the 1970s and 1980s. His credits include the brilliant 'Star Wars' style D and 'Revenge Of The Jedi' 1-sheets. V. Fine condition.
Title: RISING DAMP
Date: 1980
Size: Original British Double Crown 30"x20".
Price: £185.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Leonard Rossiter's Rigsby is a classic comic creation that first took the form of the stage play 'The Banana Box' in which of the TV series' lead characters only Richard Beckinsale had not performed. This Double Crown format is rare. Excellent condition.
Title: JAWS
Date: 1975
Size: Original 8"x10" Universal still.
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: Interesting shot, not on a lobby card, showing Quint getting into position to spear the shark with the boyant barrels. The story was based on the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 during a lethal summer heat wave and polio epidemic that drove thousands of people to the New Jersey resorts. Excellent condition.
Title: JAMES DEAN - GIANT
Date: 1956
Size: Original 8"x10" Warner Bros. photograph.
Price: £150.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Before the empty histrionics of 'There Will Be Blood', Hollywood's original oil epic proved to be the final role for James Dean. Here Jett Rink bathes in the black gold. Note the hand touched-in rain effect to the negative.
Fine condition.
Title: RAGING BULL
Date: 1980
Size: Original United Artists 8"x10" still.
Price: £120.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: It took much persuasion by DeNiro to convince a reluctant and seemingly washed-up Scorcese of the story's potential, but the resulting work not only was the saving of the director but one of cinema's great masterpieces. Excellent condition.
Title: RAGING BULL
Date: 1980
Size: Four original United Artists 8"x10" stills.
Price: £various - click thumbnail to view.
Comments and Condition: De Niro and Thelma Schoonmaker (editing) won Oscars, but nominees Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, DP Michael Chapman, the soundmen, and above all Scorcese were predicatably and unjustly passed over that year, as was Scorcese again 10 years later for 'Goodfellas'.
Excellent condition.
Title: RAGING BULL
Date: 1980
Size: Two original United Artists 8"x10" stills.
Price: £various - click thumbnail to view.
Comments and Condition: On release, the film received mixed reviews, fared poorly at the Box Office and lost the Oscar to the limp 'Ordinary People'. In June 2007 the American Film Institute voted 'Raging Bull' the fourth greatest U.S. film of all time.
Excellent condition.
Title: FLOWER OF MY SECRET
Date: 1995
Size: Original Spanish poster 39"x28"
Price: £75.00
Comments and Condition: Art by Studio Gatti. Designer Juan Gatti has enjoyed a long working relationship with Almodovar, designing memorable graphics and title sequences, including this particularly striking poster.
Excellent condition, unfolded.
Title: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS
Date: 1950's re-release
Size: Belgian 19"x14".
Price: £150.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: Near the very top of the Ealing tree sits this witty black comedy, with a tour-de-force eight character performance by Alec Guiness. The film is the key to understanding Peter Sellers' idolising of Guiness and his own subsequent delight and skill in multi-art roles such as 'Dr Strangelove'.
Fine - condition.
Title: GROUCHO MARX- SMIRNOFF VODKA
Date: 1965
Size: Original U.S. trade ad "x14".
Price: £85.00 conservation framed.
Comments and Condition: A bit outside our usual parameters, but we love Groucho and this great ad for Smirnoff which shows just how far his fame outlasted the ebbing of the Marx Brother's original success in the early 40s, to became one of the truly iconic figures of American popular culture.
Excellent condition.
Title: ROMAN HOLIDAY - AUDREY HEPBURN
Date: 1953
Size: Original Paramount 8"x10" still.
Price: SOLD - please call if you'd like us to source this item for you.
Comments and Condition: Scarce original first release still for Audrey Hepburn's now classic debut, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress. The screenplay was co-authored anonymously by Dalton Drumbo, one of the victims of the Hollywood blacklist. His credit was finally digitally restored to the film in 2003.
Fine - condition.
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