In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, Premiere has a list of The 60 Greatest American War Movies.
Category Archives: 1950s posters
If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Belgian Movie Posters…
…or French or Czech or Swedish or Polish. That’s right, hurry up and get over to EMoviePoster.com — because they’re having a big auction on a wonderful, colorful assortment of non-U.S. movie posters that ends today at 5pm PST.
Hustlers!
There’s a new book out by Paul Newman’s buddy-in-crime, A.E. Hotchner, called Paul and Me. And it sounds like Newman was quite the prankster!
Aside from the many great stories about the man and his numerous charitable acts not involving salad dressing, the book got me all nostalgic about those wonderful movie posters from The Hustler, most notably the French versions by Boris Grinsson…
Cinco de Movie Posters
Guess I’m a little late on this since Cinco de Mayo 2010 is nearly half over — but there’s a whole wonderful world of Mexican movie posters out there! So if you have any interest, go pick up Cine Mexicano: Poster Art from the Golden Age 1936-1956 by Mexican Film Archivist, Rogelio Agrasánchez Jr., or just head on down to SantoStreet.com, which carries an excellent selection of vintage south of the border one sheets.
And now for your viewing pleasure, here are the comedic stylings of legendary Mexican artist, Ernesto Garcia Cabral…
Rand-om Thoughts
The self-taught graphic design guru, Paul Rand (1914-1996), was most famous for his corporate logos and identities for such companies as ABC, IBM, and UPS — and was even hired by Apple king, Steve Jobs, to develop the branding for his NeXT computers. Like Saul Bass, his clean, simple lines pretty much defines the 50’s and 60’s Mid-Century Modernist look. However, unlike Bass, he chose to stick to the more steady commercial work of designing trademarks and completed only one movie poster for No Way Out, starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier.
It’s a shame, too. There’s no doubt Rand could’ve whipped out some classic one-sheets! If you want to learn more about the man and his philosophy, check out this video tribute.
The British Godfather
Eric Pulford was perhaps the most important figure in British movie poster history, conceiving thousands of designs in his storied fifty-year career. After buying a controlling interest in Downtons Advertising, he turned it into the chief film agency in England and employed numerous talented photographers and illustrators — most notably, “The Italian Connection” of Renato Fratini (From Russia With Love) and Arnaldo Putzu — to execute its brilliant print campaigns.
Mr. Pulford died in 2005 at the age of 89.
Tom Chantrell (1916-2001)
Tom Chantrell was a prolific British illustrator who did one of the more legendary Star Wars posters as well as the infamous Raquel Welch stunner for One Million Years BC and a whole slew of others. And judging by his obit, he seemed like one heckuva charmer!
I Hop Movie Posters!
In honor of National Pancake Day, I have a very special treat for you…
Meet Albert Kallis, the man who was not only one of the founding fathers of IHOP (International House of Pancakes), he also happens to be a distinguished designer of movie posters. Back in the late 50’s, he was hand-picked by Roger Corman to be the art director of AIP and do all of the advertising and posters for their low-budg flicks. This guy was so busy that he even hired Reynold Brown to finish the job on the classic Attack of the 50 Foot Woman one-sheet.
But that’s not all. This one man flipping crew now devotes most of his time to producing non-profit documentaries and many other charitable works not involving maple syrup. What a colossal stud!
The Bassmaster (1920-1996)
Movie Poster Museum 