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James Bond — Dr. No (Terence Young, 1962) 🇺🇸
China Seas (Tay Garnett, 1935) 🇺🇸
Hong Kong, 1935. The hard-working Kin Lung knows how to keep a secret. Quietly moored at its home port, the vessel awaits its latest cargo. On the quayside, scurrying travellers dodge baskets balanced on porters’ shoulders, stepping over caged pigs as they weave their way through the hustle and bustle of sedan chairs and rickshaws. You need your sea legs for the film’s opening 15 minutes as we bob up and down before even getting onboard. Afterwards, prepare yourself for seasickness during the 1,000 or so nautical miles that lie ahead across choppy seas, visited by a typhoon, a pirate attack – and tempestuous love affairs!
I Cover Chinatown (Norman Foster, 1936) 🇺🇸
Macao (Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray, 1952) 🇺🇸
Welcome to Macao, the fascinating “Monte Carlo of the East”, whose infernal gambling dens are a perfect playground for bad boys. Crooks, fugitives and smugglers hit the jackpot or are left high and dry depending on a throw of the dice. Still waters run deep and you have to be careful: this “calm and open” haven with its gently bobbing sampans has another, hidden side, “secret and veiled”, tucked away inside the casinos, as the opening credits warn us. Macao, in red letters with yellow shadowing on the poster, is all decked out in its finery, every bit as glamorous and elegant as the music-hall vamp who has emerged from its choppy waters.
Interview with Maggie Wellman: "My favorite story was father hiring an unknown actor named Gary Cooper" 🇺🇸
Professional Movie Poster Restoration - What to expect 🇺🇸
West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961) 🇺🇸
Movie Review: China Clipper (Ray Enright, 1936) 🇺🇸
Everybody remembers the “funny little voice” asking a pilot forced to land in the desert:
- “Please... draw me a sheep!”
And since he couldn’t manage a sheep, being more concerned with mechanical problems than artistic truths, he ended up drawing a plain old crate containing a sleeping sheep. Luigi Martinati did something similar when commissioned to create this poster, giving free rein to his imagination to the detriment of historical accuracy.
The Shanghai Drama - Scianghai (G. W. Pabst, 1938) 🇺🇸
Underwater! (John Sturges, 1955) 🇺🇸
Easy Come, Easy Go (John Rich, 1967) 🇺🇸
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (Robert D. Webb, 1953) 🇺🇸
Today I'm going to talk to you about sponges. Not the sort that frenziedly scratch and scrub away at the dark corners of your bathrooms, but the inoffensive animal species that softly cover the world's ocean beds. Although they do, alas, end up marooned on the edge of an ordinary washbasin, left to their sad, utilitarian fate.
Spot the poster! La Strada, An Affair to Remember, Creature from the Black Lagoon, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Roman Holiday in the film Luca 🇺🇸
Edge Wear, Smudging, Fold Lines and other common Vintage Movie Poster Defects 🇺🇸
She Gods of Shark Reef (Roger Corman, 1958) 🇺🇸
Under the Red Sea (Hans Hass, 1951) 🇺🇸
The Silent World (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, 1956) 🇺🇸
Who hasn’t dreamed of moving freely, unshackled from the laws of gravity, among silent creatures, as fascinating as they are disturbing?
Simply by looking at the poster, I can already feel my pulse slow, my body and mind soothed by the deep blue which banishes the noise and fury of the outside world.
How to discover more great classic movies that you may like? 🇺🇸
Do you Want to Learn How to Design Movie Posters? 🇺🇸
Most of our readers are avid poster collectors, but maybe some of you are interested in actually designing movie posters. Our friends at Postergrind.com can help you out.
The 10 Best Diving Movies Ever Made 🇺🇸
Diving movies hold a special fascination. The unknown, dark deep with all its mysterious creatures has drawn generations of movie enthusiasts and led the creation of some of the most mesmerising screenplays.
Especially movies shot in the pre-computer age required extraordinary efforts. In this list we introduce our favourite ten diving movies of all times.
How to Tell if a Vintage Movie Poster is Real 🇺🇸
Verifying the authenticity of a vintage poster is a complex process. That is because there is not one standard printing process. Here are some of the indicators we typically look for:
Dimensions
Movie posters often come in exact dimensions. So if a poster is supposed to be 27″x 40″, but actually has a different height or width...
Style Your Apartment with Vintage Movie Posters 🇺🇸
Vintage movie posters can bring a new mood or mindset to almost any room in the house.
When most people imagine a movie poster hanging on a wall, images of teen bedrooms, university dorms, and starter flats usually spring to mind. In fairness, millions of us threw a poster of our favourite film up when we were still paying off student loans precisely because we were still paying off student loans...
Every Poster Tells a Story 🇺🇸
Most of us would agree that a big part of the dining experience is inextricably woven with ambiance. There’s a reason no one wants to sit too near the kitchen (if it’s not an open kitchen concept), lights too bright or too dim can be irritating, and there’s a fine line between boisterous and rackety...