Tag: movie poster
Nightmare Alley x 4
Nightmare Alley. William Lindsay Gresham. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. 1946. First edition. Original dust jacket; art by A. F. Arnold.
Scarce macabre carnival themed thriller. “Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There’s a rat buried deep in everybody and they’ll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.”
cover art by James Avati
first film adaptation in 1947
second in 2021
1950 Paramount Picture
1973 Paramount Pictures
2010 Warner Brothers
film adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s 2004 novel, The Prince of the City, a very good movie made from a great novel
1966 MGM poster
1962 European poster: Mix Me a Person
1962 European poster: Mix Me a Person
1949 Avon paperback – cover art by Ann Cantor)
1938 McBride hardcover
cover art by Ann Cantor
better image than previously posted
basis for the 1947 film noir
1934 MGM Production
Original advertising herald for W.S. Van Dyke’s 1934 film THE THIN MAN, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name. The first of many Thin Man movies, this one starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Maureen O’Sullivan. This one’s a pristine example.
Scarlet Street
A stunning, Fine example of the French film pressbook for Fritz Lang’s ‘Scarlet Street’ (1945), based on Georges de la Fouchardiere’s 1930 novel ‘La Chienne’ (The Bitch), published in English the same year as ‘Poor Sap.’
SMB Noir 
