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Assorted tear jerker's, melodramas and romances can be found here, or just the plain old unclassifiable. The common thread being I liked the art, especially if bosoms were heaving. I am nothing if not consistent in my shallowness. There's even a little foreign exploitation and soft focus smut thrown in.

A lot of these I have never seen, especially the 50's ones. So why did I buy them? Well, sometimes the art and sometimes they came as lots with other posters. I find it hard to let any of them go even if they aren't my core interest of Horror and British comedies.

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Clark Gable * Vivien Leigh * Leslie Howard * Olivia de Havilland

Definitely not an original but a much more affordable 1980's version from the films re-release. Still, terrific visual of the classic romance.

June Haver * George Montgomery * Vivian Blaine * Celeste Holm * Vera-Ellen * Frank Latimore

40's US Musical, all shiny faces and lacquered hair. This is amazingly unfolded and from an era of paper shortage. The very thin paper is in excellent condition and I'm doing my best to keep it that way.

Farley Granger * Joan Evans * Charles Bickford * Raymond Massey * Richard Basehart

R & J with Hillbillies apparently, but here just for the 40's heaving bosom art.

Dan Dailey * Joanne Dru * Richard Hylton * Richard Crenna * Hugh Sanders * James Brown * Leo T Cleary

Baseball biopic in Day-Glo orange.

Jennifer Jones * Robert Stack * Kipp Hamilton * Robert Douglas

Vivien Leigh * Kenneth More * Eric Portman * Emlyn Williams

Weird eyes...

Betty Davies * Richard Todd * Joan Collins * Jay Robinson * Herbert Marshall * Dan O'Herlihy

Dodgy US version of Brit history.

Ray Milland * Ernest Borgnine * Dean Jagger * Frank Lovejoy * Nina Foch

Ginger Rogers * Michael Rennie * Betty Lou Keim * Warren Berlinger * Diane Jergens

B&W parent and teenager angst from the 50's. Period photo of the weepie teen in her pencil skirt.

Jean Simmons * Guy Madison * Jean Pierre Aumont * Judith Evelyn * Evelyn Varden * Peggy Knudsen * Greg Palmer

Jean Simmons having a bit of a lie down.

Jane Russell * Richard Egan * Joan Leslie * Agnes Moorehead * Michael Pate

Russell still wearing the Howard Hughes bra by the look of it and making Hawaii a happier place for US servicemen before Pearl Harbor spoils the party.

Joanne Woodward * Sheree North * Tony Randall * Jeffrey Hunter * Cameron Mitchell * Patricia Owens * Barbara Rush * Pat Hingle

Life in 50's California suburbs without Starbucks, nothing to get out of bed for.

Tyrone Power * Ava Gardner * Mel Ferrer * Errol Flynn * Eddie Albert * Juliette Greco

Frenchmen in berets and scarves? Where are the onions?

Joanne Woodward * David Wayne * Lee J Cobb * Nunnally Johnson

3 girls in one, like dating triplets except only one of them puts out. I'm guessing the Red one.

Joan Collins * Jayne Mansfield * Dan Dailey * Rick Jason * Betty Lou Keim * Delores Michaels * Larry Keating

Mansfield clearly sporting the photo-finish in a Zeppelin race look of the 50's nosecone bra.

Tommy Sands * Lili Gentle * Edmond O'Brien * John McIntire

Hm, who does this poster art make him look vaguely like? I wonder if that's a coincidence?

Lauren Bacall * Robert Stack * Evelyn Rude * Lorne Greene

According to the poster art, this seems to be about snogging the severed head of Lauren Bacall...or maybe he's going bowling with it.

Paul Newman * Joanne Woodward * Anthony Franciosa * Orson Welles * Lee Remick * Angela Lansbury

Bad boy, girl next door.

Dirk Bogarde * Yoko Tani * Ronald Lewis * John Fraser

Patrick McGoohan * Michael Craig * Anna Gaylor * Belinda Lee

Don't step in the...urgh, too late, bloody elephants...

Robert Preston * Dorothy McGuire * Eve Arden * Angela Lansbury

Laurence Harvey * Capucine * Jane Fonda * Anne Baxter * Barbara Stanwyck

Deborah Kerr * Hayley Mills * John Mills * Edith Evans

Omar Sharif * Julie Christie * Geraldine Chaplin * Tom Courtney * Alec Guinness * Siobhan McKenna * Ralph Richardson * Rod Steiger * Rita Tushingham

My 1st release (I think) Doctor Zhivago is pretty beaten up, missing bits around the edges which I admit I photoshopped back in for this pic.

Omar Sharif * Julie Christie * Geraldine Chaplin * Tom Courtney * Alec Guinness * Siobhan McKenna * Ralph Richardson * Rod Steiger * Rita Tushingham

Much better condition re-release version. My wife's favorite movie, a guilty pleasure for me too (but don't tell her). There is also a stripped down red art version of this that comes up now and then.

Suzanne Pleshette * Bradford Dillman * Ben Gazzara * Peter Graves

I appreciate the extra complexity of art featuring a mirror...

Claudia Cardinale * Jean Sorel * Michael Craig * Renzo Ricci * Fred Williams

Great title...

David Gell * Barry Cryer * Mick McManus * Ray Martine

Documentary setting out to shock by exposing the alleged steamy underside of London. Great image, whether the hock-shorror  is really there or not...who knows.

Ruth Gassmann * Eberhard Mondry

Soft porn in the early days snuck in from foreign parts as being "educational". I suspect with an "A" rating this would likely disappoint but there would be more of the same coming soon enough, especially those naturist "documentaries".

Shirley MacLaine * Alan Arkin * Rossano Brazzi * Michael Caine * Anita Ekberg * Vittorio Gassman * Peter Sellers

Seven stories about love and sex starring Shirley MacLaine with quite an interesting bunch of 60's stars.

Audrey Hepburn * Albert Finney * Eleanor Bron * William Daniels * Claude Dauphin * Nadia Gray

Those glasses are back in style amongst the WAGs now...beware the bug woman.

Anne Bancroft * Dustin Hoffman * Katharine Ross

Classic movie, poster with the classic image, even if a double bill and likely re-release.

Ron Moody * Shani Wallis * Oliver Reed * Harry Secombe * Mark Lester * Jack Wild

Yep, got dragged to this one by my parents, never have been a big fan of musicals. Poster looks to be Oscar rerelease, maybe 1972 vintage, not sure.

Julie Andrews * Richard Crenna * Michael Craig * Daniel Massey * Bruce Forsyth * Beryl Reid

I had no idea Brucie had been in a movie. 60's garish art hits you right in the eyeballs.

Elizabeth Taylor * Mia Farrow * Robert Mitchum * Peggy Ashcroft

Carroll Baker * Jean Sorel * Evelyn Stewart

Arty melodrama that promises more smut than it delivers, nice poster though.

Anthony Quinn * Virna Lisi * Hardy Kruger * Stergio Franchi * Anna Magnani

Another good rendering of Anthony Quinn.

Richard Chamberlain * Glenda Jackson * Max Adrian * Christopher Gable * Kenneth Colley

Ken Russell, so you know it has to be a bit dodgy...and it is. Real cinema history example here, theatre times scrawled, academy awards sticker glued on and drawing pin holes, the works.

Charlton Heston * Jason Robards * John Gielgud * Richard Johnson * Robert Vaughn * Richard Chamberlain * Diana Rigg * Christopher Lee * Jill Bennett

I see Gielgud got eponymously elbowed out of top billing by Heston, I bet that hurts.

Dolly Read * Cynthia Myers * Marcia McBroom * John Lazar

Mae West * John Huston * Raquel Welch * Rex Reed * Farrah Fawcett

Another Russ Meyer, well, he's bound to show up in here isn't he? Raquel too is a nice bonus. Mae West? You're kidding?

Lea Massari * Benoît Ferreux * Daniel Gélin * Michael Lonsdale * Ave Ninchi

It's French...that's about all I know about it but I am pretty sure dodgy sex is involved. Like I said, it's French.

Tina Aumont * Janet Agren * Rossano Brazzi * Barbara Bouchet

I know nothing about this other than it looks like Italian soft focus nudity and the art is by Sam Peffer - which is more than enough reason for it to be here.

Liza Minnelli * Michael York

One of my guilty pleasures...There seems to be several variations in the iconic art for this movie, this was the slightly more affordable Oscars re-release version. You can tell by the bloody annoying Oscar sticker leaching chemicals all over the original release poster...

Doris Arden * Sascha Hehn * Josef Moosholzer * Ulrich Beiger

Russ Tamblyn * Jenifer Bishop * Lon Chaney Jr

I'm guessing the experience won't live up to the words for the German nun shocker. I only got it for the other more interesting half of the artwork, which I am sure, likewise, the film won't live up to.

Peter Finch * Michael York * Hildegarde Neil * Joss Ackland * Michael Hordern * Tessa Wyatt

Yeah? Me too...

Alain Cuny * Sylvia Kristel * Marika Green * Daniel Sarky * Jeanne Colletin * Christine Boisson

Caused a bit of a stir in my teenage years but I never saw it, nor any of the many sequels, or even the dodgy Carry On parody. This one is more modest than some of the other famous wicker chair images.

Françoise Brion * Corinne O'Brien * Michel Fortin * Jean-Gabriel Nordmann

Well, obviously I got this one for the Chantrell image...I know nothing about the film...but I can guess.

A dubious one, a soft core adult movie I believe, there's not even a cast list, never seen it...liked the Chantrell art though.

Anita Strinberg * Eva Czemerys * Olga Bisera * Jenny Tamburi

Michele Placido * Simonetta Stefanelli * Jenny Tamburi

Italian exploitation film but I am not 100% sure the IMDB references are right. Definitely the kind of art this site is all about though...

Lynn Redgrave * Jean-Pierre Aumont * Lovelady Powell * Tom Poston * Nicholas Pryor

Here for the sheer seventiesness of it...her book caused quite a stir but this adaption of Xaviera Hollander's memoirs is pretty tame by all accounts. I dimly remember the talk shows getting all excited about her trick dress which had a pull cord to flash her knickers. Pretty tame underwear too by today's standards...

Koo Stark * Sarah Brackett * Victor Spinetti * Jane Hayden

A soft porn film that would likely have only been known to the DMB except for it's obscure star getting it on with Prince Andrew. So that's why it is here of course.

Helmut Berger * Ingrid Thulin * Teresa Ann Savoy * John Steiner

Interesting if dodgy image, there is also a more explicit version with a chorus line in the background.

Sarah Miles * Kris Kristofferson * Jonathan Kahn * Margo Cunningham * Earl Rhodes

Lajos Balázsovits * Pamela Villoresi * Franco Branciaroli * Teresa Ann Savoy * Laura Betti

Historical but with lashings of orgies. A Chantrell that shows up frequently on Ebay generally described as rare. Yeah, right. I have just been waiting for prices to get down to something reasonable. This one has a date on it for it's showing at the Prince Charles Cinema for May 26th which makes it 1977 by my calculations. I'm guessing Chantrell had a lot of fun painting all those boobs.

Misty Rowe * Terrence Locke * Patch Mackenzie * Preston Hanson * Marty Zagon * Andre Philippe

Everyone should have at least one Marilyn poster, this isn't her but I will keep looking.

Georgina Spelvin * Clair Dia * Annette Haven * John Leslie

Brit porn with dodgy artwork...which is why it's here. I guess this is how posters were tarted up to include an awards sticker in the good old days before photoshop. They clearly used an old original poster they had lying around and cut around the main subjects, you can still see jagged scissor marks, fold lines and a ragged tear. Then they photographed it with the awards banner to make a brand new poster for the printers. That means that all those defects are now faithfully reproduced as part of the new artwork...high tech or what?

Laurence Olivier * Robert Duvall * Katharine Ross * Tommy Lee Jones * Jane Alexander * Lesley-Anne Down

Joan Collins * Oliver Tobias * Sue Lloyd

Joanies comeback film, amazing what a flash from the over 40's can do for your career. Very 70's soundtrack, even The Sweet trying to piggyback their comeback on it. A blip on the radar of the the declining 70's British film industry so worth a nod even if the poster art is a bit basic.

Anthony Franciosa * Carroll Baker * Sherrie Lee Cronn * Paul Nicholas * Gareth Hunt * Georgina Hale

Jumpsuits? I thought that was 80's...I guess not.

Joan Collins * Michael Coby * Kenneth Haigh * Ian Hendry * Pamela Salem * Sue Lloyd

I'm surprised I have never seen this film, John Collins pre-Dynasty, that's got to be worth a look, plus of course the dodgy soundtrack. Follow up to the The Stud, indicated by the inclusion of a clip from the art.

Hanna Schygulla * Klaus Lowitsch * Ivan Desny * Gisela Uhlen * Elisabeth Trissenaar * Gottfried John

Couldn't pass up an image like this...

Ajita Wilson * Mireille Damien * Danilo Micheli

More Euro-smut that is just here for the image to brighten up your day. Hey, it was cheap...

Hazel O'Conner * Phil Daniels * Jon Finch

I love this movie, punk fairytale with Hazel O'Conner when she seemed so talented for her age. Poster is Chantrell too and captures the essence.

Hazel O'Conner * Phil Daniels * Jon Finch

Second version of this movie poster I have, no idea which one was used most originally to promote the film but this is the art you will also see on the UK Soundtrack album.

Malcolm McLaren * Steve Jones * Paul Cook * Sid Vicious * John Lydon * Ronald Biggs * Liz Fraser * Mary Millington

Urgh, mess of a film with McLaren trying to pretend the rise and fall was all to his cunning plan. Yeah, right, tosser. Saw it because I was a fan and felt I had to, even though I knew it was all bollox going in. Still, an important milestone, so the poster is one I have been very happy to find. Sad to admit I have had the LP since the day it went on release, that was a mess too. The color registration on this is terrible, not sure if it's deliberate or just cheap. You almost need 3D glasses to look at it.

Helen Mirren * Paul Angelis * Murray Salem * Jenny Runacre * Patti Boulaye * Marika Rivera

I know nothing about the movie but like the art for all the usual reasons and the word Hussy; enough s's so you can really hiss it the way your mother would.

Barbara Sukowa * Armin Mueller-Stahl * Mario Adorf * Matthias Fuchs * Helga Feddersen * Karin Baal * Ivan Desny * Hark Bohm * Rosel Zech

I just dunno what it is about the posters for the Fassbinder films that I like so much but...this one has it too.

Joan Collins * Carol White * Paul Nicholas * Finola Hughes * William Franklyn * Leslie Ash * Cherry Gillespie * Ed Bishop

Joan reunited with Paul Nicholas to cement the Bitch typecasting that would serve her well for her third (fourth?) bite of the cherry.

Meryl Streep * Robert Redford * Klaus Maria Brandauer * Michael Kitchen * Malick Bowens

Up into the 80's now so the posters get a bit glossier and more photographic than proper canvas art. About where I try to stop more or less. Poster not enhanced by Academy Awards sticker plastered on it.

Lindsay Kemp * Manuela Vargas * Jack Birkett * Michael Matou

Shakespear? Wossat doing here? Well, the art's the thing, innit?

Gary Oldman * Chloe Webb

I love punk but never was a big fan of Sid. Still, seeing this whole story unfold during my teenage years made this a movie I had to see. Photographic art though it does capture the look well.

Patsy Kensit * Eddie O'Connell * David Bowie * James Fox * Ray Davies * Mandy Rice-Davies * Eve Ferret

Talk about over hyped, this was set up by the PTB as the film to save an industry. Sad it turned out to be such a flop. Certainly some interesting ingredients. Just not that good. I do like the poster art though so not a total write off. Hey, it had Eighth Wonder in it, how could it fail?

Jean-Hugues Anglade * Béatrice Dalle

I should have got the French 37.2 Degrees Le Matin original version for COA, not this reissue. Oh well, I will make do with the Beatrice Dalle image on this one.

I also have a subway size version I have yet to photograph properly.

Jean-Hugues Anglade * Béatrice Dalle

And the rough picture of the Subway size version which is too big to scan...

Madonna

Well I don't really have a category for this...but it's certainly full of drama. Not entirely unconnected with what this site is all about even if the poster art is just a big ol' photo.