April 1943 issue ~ cover art by Emery Clarke

April 1943 issue

cover art by Emery Clarke

Kenneth Robeson, “The King of Terror”

better image than previously posted

as violent, bloody, sexist, sadomasochistic, racist, and lurid as the pulp covers were, this one has to be perhaps the most grisly of all…

1970 Paramount Pictures, Borsolino

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1970. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the American release of the 1970 French film, showing actor Alain Delon.

Based on Eugene Saccomano’s 1959 book “Bandits a Marseille.” Two small time gangsters in 1930s Marseille join forces and go into business, vying with mob bosses for control. Director Jacques Deray released a sequel, “Borsalino and Co,” in 1974, starring Delon and Riccardo Cucciolla.