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1967Best.-Nr. 164229Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage 30" x 40" poster for the US release of the 1967 British anthology horror film. The second Horror anthology or "portmanteau" film from Amicus Productions following the 1965 film "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" also directed by Freddie Francis a trademark of producer Milton Subotsky and written by "Psycho" screenwriter Robert Bloch who adapted his own work for the screenplay. A group of visitors to Dr. Diablo's Burgess Meredith sideshow are each shown their futures in the sideshow's "blow-off" which includes cannibal cats haunted pianos and the reincarnation of Edgar Allan Poe. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear and closed tears to the center right margin. Columbia Pictures unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 163705Burbank CA: Warner Brothers - Seven Arts 1968. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1966 Italian film printed in black and a bold fluorescent orange. One of only a short run of highly-regarded films released by Warner Brothers-Seven Arts between 1967 and 1969. Rare in this size format. Loosely based on the early sixteenth century novella "Belfagor arcidiavolo" by Niccolò Machiavelli. Vittorio Gassman stars as Belfagor a devil sent back to earth to stoke a war between Rome and Florence in medieval Italy to bolster the number of hell's incoming souls but quickly becomes distracted by amorous feelings for the beautiful Claudine Auger as the Maddalena de'Medici. Starring Mickey Rooney as Adramalek a Puckish demon invisible to everyone but Belfagor. Set in and shot on location in Tuscany Sicily and Rome Italy. 118.5 x 24 inches. Light rubbing and edgewear else Near Fine. Bright and unfaded. Note: The fluorescent orange color can not be reproduced in a photograph and is a much brighter orange than depicted in the image. Warner Brothers - Seven Arts unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 164198Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage banner poster for US release of the 1967 Japanese-American kaiju film. Rare in this size format. The fourth film in the King Kong franchise. Loosely based on the animated Rankin/Bass' television series "The King Kong Show" the first anime-based series produced in Japan for an American company which was aired on ABC from 1966 through 1969 and the second and final Toho-produced film featuring King Kong preceded by the 1963 film "King Kong vs. Godzilla" until the 2021 film "Godzilla vs. Kong." A robot duplicate of King Kong Mechani-Kong is manufactured to dig for the highly radioactive Element X. When Mechani-Kong is unable to dig for the material the evil Doctor Who and Madame Piranha decide to kidnap the real Kong. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with a chip missing at the top left corner several closed tears to the bottom right margin and cello and paper tape repairs to the verso of the bottom right. Colors bright and unfaded. Universal Pictures unknown
1961Best.-Nr. 161215N.p.: William Castle Productions 1961. Vintage 40 x 60 inch poster for the 1961 film. Rare in this size format. A mysterious woman offers a bellboy $2000 to marry her only to brutally murder the justice of the peace during the ceremony before fleeing. Widely regarded as one of the best films of director and B-movie maestro William Castle and undeniably influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" released the year prior. Castle well known for his utilization of promotional gimmicks implemented a "Fright Break" for "Homicidal;" a 45-second timer which overlays the impending climax with Castle's voice-over advising the audience they could leave the theater and receive a full refund if they were too frightened to see the ending of the film audience members who chose to leave however would have to wait in a yellow cardboard booth entitled the "Coward's Corner" manned by a nurse with a blood pressure cuff. 40 x 60 inches. Very Good plus with light overall creasing and minor edgewear else bright and unfaded. See image. William Castle Productions unknown
1966Best.-Nr. 164220Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage banner poster for the 1966 film printed in black and a bold fluorescent orange. Rare in this format. Based on the 1963 novel by Rohan O'Grady pen name of Canadian author June Margaret O'Grady Skinner. Director and producer William Castle's black comedy wherein a twelve-year-old boy inherits a fortune and is trapped on an island with his ex-British Intelligence uncle who uses hypnotism sharks fire and poisonous mushrooms to try and kill the boy. Shot on location in Bermuda. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light overall creasing and rubbing. Bright and unfaded. Note: The fluorescent orange color cannot be reproduced in a photograph and is a much brighter than what is depicted in the image. Universal Pictures unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 164221Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Vintage banner poster for the 1963 film. Rare in this format. An architect and his wife survey an old mansion where the previous tenant an eccentric heiress has disappeared. Strange noises suspicious strangers and vanishing keys ensue. Inspired by the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose California. Shot on location at the Greystone Park and Mansion in Beverly Hills California. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light soiling and faint rubbing overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 170872Bruxelles Brussels: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage Belgian petite poster for the 1969 film. Based on director photographer and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. Set and shot on location in Kansas. 21.5 x 17.5 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with light toning to the extremities and a small splash to the middle top margin see image. Warner Brothers unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 170874Rome: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage Italian 4-Fogli poster for the 1969 film designed by Italian poster artist Manfredo Acerbo. Based on director and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. Set and shot on location in Kansas. 55 x 78 inches. Printed in two panels and folded as issued. Near Fine with modest toning and starting to some of the folds. Warner Brothers unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 163709Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1960. Vintage full color banner poster for the 1960 film with a "Classified By Ontario Board of Censors as Adult Entertainment" label on the lower right. Rare in this format. Steve Allen stars as a sociology professor accused of corrupting the students morals after conducting a survey about their lifestyles and sexual habits. An unofficial follow-up to the hit 1958 film "High School Confidential!" 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with censor label partially detached. Bright and unfaded. Universal International Pictures unknown
1961Best.-Nr. 163707N.p.: Topaz Film Corporation 1961. Vintage two-color banner poster for US release of the 1960 British film originally released in the UK as "Too Hot to Handle." Uncommon in this format. Jayne Mansfield stars as showgirl Midnight Franklin headliner at the Pink Flamingo club in Soho run by her tough guy boyfriend Johnny Solos. When Johnny starts getting threats and demands for protection money from a rival club owner he fights back. Featuring famously risqué musical numbers featuring Mansfield in see-through clothing some frames from which were published in Playboy magazine and were visually altered for the US release to meet censor requirements. 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with some rubbing to the lower left and upper right causing modest color loss. Bright and unfaded. Grant UK. Topaz Film Corporation unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 163713Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures 1960. Vintage three-color banner poster for the 1960 film. Rare in this format. Collins College consults with the campus computer "Thinko" in search for a new head of their science department which suggests Dr. Mathilda West who holds 13 degrees speaks 18 languages and is a disruptively attractive buxom blonde played by Mamie Van Doren. Released in Europe with an additional nine-minute dream sequence featuring "Thinko" and four striptease dancers. 118.5 x 24 inches. Very Good plus. Allied Artists Pictures unknown
1970Best.-Nr. 170873N.p.: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage French grande affiche poster for the 1969 film. Based on director and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. Set and shot on location in Kansas. 45.5 x 82 inches. Folded as issued. Near Fine with modest starting to some of the center folds. Warner Brothers unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 170771France: Arcadie Productions 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film including a program ten lobby cards and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel but in reality an exercise in image making fourth wall breaking and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism voyeurism and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards 10: 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs 2: 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued. Arcadie Productions unknown
1955Best.-Nr. 15219London London: Rank Organisation 1955. 1955. Eight original borderless press photographs for the seminal 1955 Ealing Comedy. All eight with British press stamps and typed layout slips to the verso. The curtain call of the famous "Ealing Comedies" the Ladykillers was the last major masterpiece produced by the iconic Ealing Studios before the studio was sold to the BBC. Darkly macabre the film was deeply subversive at the time and satirised Britain's inability to move beyond its Empire past. William Rose famously purportedly dreamt the whole film and simply sat down wrote out the script from memory. London, London: Rank Organisation, 1955. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 171030Paris: Jet Film / Two World Enterprises / Les Films du Losange 1969. Vintage press kit for the 1969 film including five studio still photographs and a bound gathering of publicity material. Text in English. A German college graduate and an American expatriate hitchhike from Paris to Ibiza where the bliss of island life quickly gives way to heroin addiction and hedonism. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Set and shot on location in Paris and Ibiza. Photographs Near Fine promotional material Very Good plus perfect-bound in wrappers with front wrapper partially detached from the binding. BFI 1040. Jet Film / Two World Enterprises / Les Films du Losange unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 163824Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1963. Vintage insert poster for the 1963 film. Samuel Fuller's hallucinatory tour-de-force wherein Daily Globe journalist Johnny Barrett Peter Breck determined to win a Pulitzer Prize has himself institutionalized in an asylum to solve a case where an inmate had recently been murdered. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus with three horizontal creases from being previously folded and light edgewear. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 19. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US. Grant US. Allied Artists unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 163823N.p.: Lippert Pictures 1951. Vintage insert poster for the 1951 film. Director Samuel Fuller's underrated and influential Korean War film wherein a group of ragtag soldiers battle against overwhelming Communist forces in an abandoned Buddhist Temple. Fuller's first of several war films with probably his most gripping and realistic depictions of life and death on the battlefield. The film was shot in ten days on a budget of $100 000 and dealt with themes of American racism bigotry and war crimes which caused Fuller as well as actor Gene Evans to be a target of an FBI investigation. 14 x 36 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 5. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby Master. Spicer US. Lippert Pictures unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 128176Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Vintage insert poster for the 1971 film. The first film in Pasolini's Trilogy of life followed by "Canterbury Tales" 1972 and "Arabian Nights" 1974 a light and sumptuous adaptation of Boccaccio's work "The Decameron" replete with nudity sex and both slapstick and scatological humor. Featuring a score by Ennio Morricone. 36 x 14 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1115. Criterion Collection 631. United Artists unknown
1968Best.-Nr. 164342N.p.: Marlukin Productions 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1968 film. An overlooked and important film one of the first to deal with contemporary Black revolutionaries who rose in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Today considered a work that seeded the explosion of Blaxploitation films in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The story's events surround the death of Martin Luther King framed as a remake of "The Informer" John Ford 1935 in turn based on the 1925 proletarian novel by Liam O'Flaherty. Shot on location in Cleveland the first US film for noted director Jules Dassin who had left the US at the height of the McCarthy hearings in nearly two decades. 26.75 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. with starting at the center folds. Grant US. Olive Films 425. Marlukin Productions unknown
1978Best.-Nr. 126967N.p.: Brut Productions 1978. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1978 film. James Toback's directorial debut wherein Harvey Keitel stars as a sexually dysfunctional young pianist torn between his work as a ruthless debt collector for his loan shark father and wanting to be a classical pianist like his mentally ill mother. Remade in 2005 as the French film "The Beat That My Heart Skipped" directed by Jacques Audiard and starring Romain Duris and Niels Arestrup. Set in and shot on location in New York. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with light edgewear and starting at the center folds. Grant US. Spicer US. Brut Productions unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 164374N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1968 Hammer film here under the French release title "Dracula et les femmes." The fourth entry in Hammer Film Productions' Dracula series and the third to feature Christopher Lee as the Count. Preceded by the 1966 film "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" directed by Terence Fisher and followed by the 1970 film "Taste the Blood of Dracula" directed by Peter Sasdy. A monsignor exorcises Dracula's castle unwittingly resurrecting the Count who proceeds to prey on the monsignor's beautiful niece and friends. 23 x 31.25 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a 4.25 inch closed tear to the upper right side and starting at the center and far right creases. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1967Best.-Nr. 164352N.p.: Trans American Films 1967. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1967 "Mondo" documentary. A "Mondo" style documentary about teenage rebellion in the US UK France Italy Sweden and Japan with commentaries on a range of subjects including music fashion drugs bikers surfing prostitution and homosexuality. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with small closed tears at the top and bottom of the center vertical crease and starting to the center crease. Trans American Films unknown
1973Best.-Nr. 127086Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1973. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1973 film. The last of the three feature films in the original "Shaft" trilogy preceded by "Shaft" 1971 and "Shaft's Big Score!" 1972 both directed by Gordon Parks and starring Richard Roundtree and Moses Gun. Shaft travels to Africa to help break up a slavery ring smuggling immigrants into France. Shot on location in Africa Spain Paris and New York. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners and a small closed tear to the upper right margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1975Best.-Nr. 127315Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A coward accidentally becomes a war hero after being forced into in the Russian army. The last of Allen's early outrageous comedies before pursuing a more narrative and dramatic approach beginning with "Annie Hall" 1977. Set in Russia shot on location in France and Hungary. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 127386N.p.: Continental Distributing 1963. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1963 British film. Based on the 1960 novel by screenwriter David Storey. One of the greatest films in British cinema and regarded by many to be Richard Harris' finest performance. A young and angry Yorkshire rugby footballer finds his romantic life to be as unsuccessful as his sporting life is rewarding. Lindsay Anderson's stunning feature film debut following years of documentary work. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palm d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Yorkshire England. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a pinhole to each corner and a tiny chip to the top right margin. Bright and unfaded. Criterion Collection 417. Continental Distributing unknown
