Try and Get Me, Original Vintage Half Sheet, 1950
The somber material tackled in Try and Get Me (aka, The Sound and The Fury, 1950) was based on the true story of a mob lynching in 1933. Brooke Hart was the 22-year old son of a department store owner in San Jose, California. Hart was kidnapped, hit over the head with a cement block and dumped into the Frisco Bay. A few days later the murderers were captured.
Up to this point the story is a sad sordid crime drama. The rest is a societal and political atrocity. A fear-mongering media and a governor with no respect for the law conspired to incite a blood-thirsty mob of vigilantes in San Jose to hang two drifters sans indictments, arraignments, trial or sentencing.
The Hitch-Hiker, Half Sheet
It’s nice to see one of film noir’s most under-rated posters finally getting some attention. The Hitch-Hiker, from 1953, has been popping up on a few best poster lists lately. This is the half sheet version of the poster. It’s different, and that’s a good thing. If they had just copied the graphic from the one sheet it would have looked askew in the half sheet. Instead the killer is shown off to the side casting a large shadow hitching diagonally across the poster. The headlights on William Talman are spot-on. Eerie. Foreboding. Excellent execution. Overall Color — What else? Blood Red.
Near Mint. Never folded. Never restored. No pin holes. One half inch tear at upper right corner. Very faint yellowing, far less than would be expected for age of poster. A rare find.
