A collection of comic and fantasy art plus artwork from the Golden Age of Illustration and whatever else sparks my interest.
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Great Escape Lobby Cards
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday at the Movies
Here's some creepy movie posters...
The Oblong Box, 1969.
The Haunting, 1963.
House on Haunted Hill, 1959.
Cry of the Banshee, 1970.
Black Sabbath, 1964.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The Great Escape
Nothing to do with comic or fantasy art, but The Great Escape is the greatest movie ever made. This rip-roaring adventure film was based on true events as chronicled in Paul Brickhill's book.
The movie tells of the story of an attemped breakout from a German POW camp in March 1944. The prisoners hoped to get 200 men out out through the tunnel (one of three tunnels they dug). I won't talk about the results in case you're some kind of philistine that has never seen this movie.
Filmed on location in Germany, this film featured a boatload of stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, David McCallum and James Donald. To name a few.
Below are some movie posters and scans of the covers of a few editions of Brickhill's book.
One-sheet poster, 1963.
Polish one-sheet, 1963.
Japanese poster.
Italian poster.
Australian poster, 1970's re-release.
1970 edition, American. Fawcett-Crest.
1961 edition, American. Fawcett-Crest.
1995 edition, British. Sheridan Book Company.
Further Reading:
The Real Story Behind The Great Escape
The Fifty Airmen who were murdered by the Germans.
The Three Who Got Away.
Stalag Luft III: the Secret Story by Arthur Durand.
The Longest Tunnel by Alan Burgess.
The movie tells of the story of an attemped breakout from a German POW camp in March 1944. The prisoners hoped to get 200 men out out through the tunnel (one of three tunnels they dug). I won't talk about the results in case you're some kind of philistine that has never seen this movie.
Filmed on location in Germany, this film featured a boatload of stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasance, James Coburn, David McCallum and James Donald. To name a few.
Below are some movie posters and scans of the covers of a few editions of Brickhill's book.
One-sheet poster, 1963.
Polish one-sheet, 1963.
Japanese poster.
Italian poster.
Australian poster, 1970's re-release.
1970 edition, American. Fawcett-Crest.
1961 edition, American. Fawcett-Crest.
1995 edition, British. Sheridan Book Company.
Further Reading:
The Real Story Behind The Great Escape
The Fifty Airmen who were murdered by the Germans.
The Three Who Got Away.
Stalag Luft III: the Secret Story by Arthur Durand.
The Longest Tunnel by Alan Burgess.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Drug Exploitation Movie Posters
Here's some posters for some movies about the evils of drugs:
Pickup Alley, 1957.
Assassin of Youth, 1936.
Marihauna: Weed With Roots in Hell, 1936.
The above two posters are likely the same movie as the posters below.
The Devil's Harvest, 1936.
The Devil's Harvest, 1936.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Uncle Bill's Barrel: the Movie
A few weeks ago I posted Bernie Wrightson's story "Uncle Bill's Barrel" to this blog. It's one of my favorite Wrightson stories. The other day I was looking through the searches that brought people to this blog and saw someone got here by searching for "Uncle Bill's Barrel movie." Curious, I clicked on the Google search page and came across this video:
I did what research I could, and found it is a 10 minute film produced by Image Now Films. I don't know if they did this as a demo type thing or what. I notice the credits don't mention Bernie. I'd love to see the whole thing.
Below is the first page to Bernie's story. I really need to redo the scans from when I posted the story. [DONE] A setting on my scanner was wrong when I did those, this one came out better I believe:
I did what research I could, and found it is a 10 minute film produced by Image Now Films. I don't know if they did this as a demo type thing or what. I notice the credits don't mention Bernie. I'd love to see the whole thing.
Below is the first page to Bernie's story. I really need to redo the scans from when I posted the story. [DONE] A setting on my scanner was wrong when I did those, this one came out better I believe:
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