Woman on the Run, 1950 Original Half Sheet
Woman on the Run, 1950
Directed by Norman Foster
Holy Roller Coasters! Run Lady Run!
?????? What? Why isn’t Ann Sheridan running? Why is she standing around goading the cops?
Batman director, Norman Foster purposely re-titled the story Woman on the Run in order to capture the “essence” of a woman racing against time to retrieve her lost love. Yeah, sure. That’s what I get from the picture.
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.
They Won’t Believe Me — Half Sheet — Click for an enlarged image
Kindly Dr. Welby — a slick, womanizing gigolo? Say it isn’t so. Twenty years before dispensing advice to the gracefully ill (no blood gushing from major orifices on Dr. Welby, M.D.), Robert Young was flashing his acting chops as a smarmy noir gigolo in 1947′s They Won’t Believe Me. Weirdly prudish ending aside, some pretty good stuff. Susan Hayward co-stars. Joan Harrison, a long-time Alfred Hitchcock assistant, produces.
This poster is the bomb. This site’s color choice is influenced by this poster. In fact I’m so in love with this poster I had a hard time deciding whether or not to offer it for sale…
CONDITION: Near Mint. Vibrant Colors. Very faint fold lines.
