I thought it was time to share some more movie posters. As before, there’s no particular theme or category for this collection, other than they’re dynamic and dramatic, and got my attention in one way or another.

I thought I’d lead off with a particularly beautiful poster for The Sea Hawk (1924), directed by Frank Lloyd. .

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Released in 1930, this was one of several features shot in 70mm, though shown mainly in 35mm since few theaters could accommodate the widescreen format. Years ago I saw it in 70mm at the Museum of Modern Art as part of a series of early widescreen films. It was a mind-blowing experience. Despite the poster’s claim, however, it is not “the most important picture every produced.”

It’s some indication of Raoul Walsh’s stature as a director that his name is above the title in the main title sequence.

Below is one of a series of striking lobby cards for the film. You don’t see lobby cards on display in theaters anymore.

John Wayne was 23 in this film, his first credited role. After The Big Trail, he appeared in many low-budget Westerns until 1939, when he had his breakout role in John Ford’s Stagecoach.

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Baby Face Nelson (directed by Don Siegel, 1957)

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Baby Face (directed by Alfred E. Green 1933)  Per Wikipedia: Marketed with the salacious tagline “She had it and made it pay”, the film’s open discussion of sex made it one of the most notorious films of the Pre-Code Hollywood era and helped bring the era to a close as enforcement of the code became stricter beginning in 1934. The film was then heavily cut. The uncensored version remained lost until 2004, when it resurfaced at a Library of Congress film vault in Dayton, Ohio. This version had  its New York City premiere in 2005, which is when I probably saw it.

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Great poster for one of my favorite films, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1964. I find it eminently repeatable. Lancaster is great in this.

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Italian poster for My Forbidden Past, directed by Robert Stevenson in 1951.

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Italian poster for The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder in 1955.

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English language poster for François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player (1960).

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Spanish poster for The Son of the Sheik, directed in 1926 by George Fitzmaurice.

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Hitchcock, 1936.

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Hitchcock, 1960. (I included this one in a previous poster collection, but it’s too good not to have here.)

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Hitchcock, 1963.

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Two directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Leon Morin, Priest (1961) and Le Doulos (1963).

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It Pays to Advertise (directed by Frank Tuttle in 1931).

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Tom Mix and Tony the Wonder Horse! Directed by Lewis Seiler in 1927.

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The Unknown (1927),  directed by Tod Browning. The Univited (1944), directed by Lewis Allen.

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Directed by Curtis Bernhardt in 1951.

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Directed by Orson Welles in 1962.

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Directed by Vincente Minnelli in 1955.

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Excerpted from a poster for Chinatown (1974), directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. This really captures a tone and feeling.

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That does it for this one. Stay tuned for the next one. — Ted Hicks