BTD: Alastair Sim. The Belles of St. Trinian's,1951. Directed by Frank Launder. Starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, and Hermione Baddeley. Danish poster.
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Happy birthday to Guillermo del Toro. Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006. Directed by del Toro. Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, and Doug Jones. Japanese poster.
Nightmare Alley. NYC premiere this day in 1947. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker. German poster.
BTD: Alastair Sim. Laughter in Paradise,1951. Directed by Mario Zampi. Starring Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, and Guy Middleton. Italian poster.
BTD: Jacques Tati. Playtime,1967. Directed by Jacques Tati. Starring Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, and Rita Maiden. Polish poster. Art by Jerzy Flisak.
Happy birthday John. Give Peace a Chance. The Plastic Ono Band. Apple Records, 1969.
BTD: Rouben Mamoulian. Golden Boy,1939. Directed by Mamoulian. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, and Adolphe Menjou. Italian poster. Art by Sergio Gargiulo.
Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Jane Bryan, and Eduardo Ciannelli reprising “Marked Woman” for CBS Radio, circa 1937.
BTD: Frank Herbert. Dune, 1965. Ron Miller's concept art for David Lynch's 1984 adaptation.
Mr. Sardonicus. Released this day in 1961. Directed by William Castle. Starring Guy Rolfe, Audrey Dalton, Oscar Homolka, and Vladimir Sokoloff. German poster and “Punishment Poll” cards.
BTD: Julien Duvivier. Pépé le Moko,1946. Directed by Duvivier. Starring Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, and Mireille Balin. Italian poster. Art by R. Francili.
BTD: Rouben Mamoulian. The Song of Songs, 1933. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Starring Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, and Alison Skipworth. Swedish poster. Art by Castegren.
Definitely ditto on Blood and Black Lace (not to deny Black Sunday its due). Not only are the colors so saturated they seem ready to burst, the film has one of the top five great credit sequences in movie history (and witty, to boot).
AJ: A Mario Bava Film@ajmacready.bsky.social · 2d agoI name three BLACK SUNDAY (1960) BLOOD AND BLACK LACE CRIMSON PEAK there are more, but those are the ones I think of when I think of beautiful horror
The indefatigable Brother Theodore. You can see him tonight in The 'Burbs, just one of three films screening during TCM's salute to Joe Dante! Starting at 8PM PST with Matinee and closing in on the witching hour at 12AM with The Howling.
4D Man. Released this day in 1959. Directed by Irvin Yeaworth. Starring Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, and James Congdon. Italian poster.
The French Connection. LA & NY premieres this day in 1971. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. French re-release poster.
Farewell, Eva Marie Saint. Raintree County, 1957. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Eva Marie Saint. Italian standee. Art by Wallace Bassford.
Sensualità. Directed by Clemente Fracassi. Starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Marcello Mastroianni, and Amedeo Nazzari. Italian poster. Art by Arnaldo Putzu.
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. Released in the UK this day in 1974. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Starring Peter Cushing, Julie Ege, David Chiang, Robin Stewart, and Shih Szu. Japanese poster.
BTD: Carole Lombard. True Confession, 1937. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and John Barrymore. French poster.
I love on set photos and this is wonderful from Remember The Night (1940). No idea what's going on. Are Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray ducking director Mitchell Leisen or are they bobbing for apples??? Onlookers include Beulah Bondi, Spencer Charters and Sterling Holloway.
Dr. No. London premiere this day in 1962. Directed by Terence Young. Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, and Anthony Dawson. German release poster.
BTD: Donald Pleasence. Cul-De-Sac, 1966. Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, and Jack MacGowran. Japanese poster.
BTD: Glynis Johns. Miranda, 1948. Directed by Ken Annakin. Starring Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Margaret Rutherford, and David Tomlinson.
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 6d agoA Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Seconds. Released this day in 1966. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, and Will Geer. Spanish poster. Art by Macario Gómez Quibus.
