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19 Apr

Moby Dick (1956 – II)

Spanish title: Moby DickStars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, Herman MelvilleDirected by: John HustonDistributor: Warner Bros (for 20th Century Fox and United Artists)
"The White Whale had almost destroyed him…"
The second of our two lobby cards for John Huston’s Moby Dick, this design is by far the superior of the two.
The first relies [...]

06 Apr

The Pride and the Passion (1957)

Spanish title: Orgullo y PasionStars: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia LorenDirected by: Stanley KramerDistributor: United Artists of Mexico
Okay, so the depiction of Frank Sinatra looks more like Ronald Reagan than Ol’ Blue Eyes – at least nobody could deny that Sophia Loren looks like Sophia Loren, and that makes up for just about anything else [...]

19 Mar

Moby Dick (1956)

Spanish title: Moby DickStars: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson WellesDirected by: John HustonDistributor: Warner Bros (for 20th Century Fox and United Artists)
"Before the shark… there was the whale!"
This is one of two different lobby card releases for this film, and this is definitely the inferior one. The odd choice of circling Gregory Peck’s [...]

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