cover art Joseph Szokoli, based on H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
[post updated 4/20/24]
November 1944 issue ~ cover art Joseph Szokoli
Tag: heist
United Artists 1956 lobby card
“The Killing” (United Artists, 1956). Very Fine. Title Lobby Card (11″ X 14″) Film Noir.
Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, James Edwards, Timothy Carey, Joe Turkel, Jay Adler, Kola Kwariani, Tito Vuolo, Dorothy Adams, James Griffith, William ‘Billy’ Benedict, Charles Cane, Robert Williams, and Art Gilmore. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Adaptation of the heist novel Clean Break by Lionel White
Kubrick’s first movie as director
Sterling Hayden in disguise in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956).
1965 lobby card
1965 lobby card, approximately 11″x14″
A little Christmas Eve crime
2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?
Holiday Heist
1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print
1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.
Ho Ho Ho – – –
Die Hard, 1988
November 2014 release – cover art by Glen Orbik
cover art by Glen Orbik
“TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS…
…and two robbers hired by a local crime boss manage to heist half a million dollars from an armored car. But getting the money and getting away with it are two different things, especially with a blizzard coming down, the cops in hot pursuit, and a double-crossing gambler and a murderous park ranger threatening to turn this white Christmas blood red.”
1963 movie poster
1963 Universal one sheet, 27×41″
February 1942 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
November 1937 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
cover art by H.J. Ward
Final issue of the title, and the last pulp appearance of the Lone Ranger
SMB Noir 
