![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an iconic image of Butch and the Kid running and shooting their way to infamy.įrom the symbolism of the red sky to the increasingly larger title (code for ‘Tiger!’) the poster illustrates the precise feel of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The poster introduces a pair like no other. The baby’s carriage is perfectly placed inside of Rosemary’s head. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.” One of the greatest quotes ever gets immortalized in the poster for the film. It’s the most magnificent picture ever at least according to the poster for perhaps one of the most iconic films of all time. Here he is in all his glory, ready to take out a villain with his bow and arrow. It uses the same artistic delight that the film unleashed onto the world.Įrrol Flynn set the bar for all subsequent Robin Hoods. It tells us nothing about the film and entices viewers to go into the movie with no preconceived notion. Unlike a lot of films, this one implemented a very artistic representation of the star. It’s an adaptation of one of the most famous scenes in the film and done with a very disturbing painting. Hell’s demons are pushing through and ascending onto the city. There’s the now-iconic poster of the two leads embracing on the moon, but this is the original that promoted the first film to win every major Oscar. It’s one of the most iconic moments in film history, and this specific poster shows the magnitude of the beast that was killed by Beauty. There are so many great posters of Kong on top of a building snapping a plane. This poster shows a seductive lady looking right into the eyes of any man that pass by. So far female actresses have been rather tame, but not here. Everyone wants to see the horrific vampire, and here he is ready to suck the blood out of an attractive female. The film claims to be “the nightmare of horror” and the poster delivers the tease. It’s just a soldier silently looking out of the black abyss that rages on. The cartoon is a clever way of expressing how, well, cartoonish college can be.įor a film about war, the poster is rather quiet. “College is supposed to be fun,” this poster screams. So far we’ve seen female leads, but The Fleet’s In puts the actress front and center with nowhere else to look. It sells the plot of the movie and sells the image of the escape artist as well.Ĭaligari is the ideal German expressionist film, and here’s the only poster that could suit the film’s needs.Ĭhaplain spent a full year (a ridiculous amount of time by 1921’s standards) to craft one of the greatest comedies of all time it looks like Chaplin knew what he was doing by having the poster proclaim it has six reels of joy. Here’s Houdini doing what he does best: escaping. It’s as simple as the sergeant going over the top. Arthur Guy Empey and the poster focused on selling his name. The story of Cleopatra has been told so many times on film, but this was the first and the basis of so many posters to follow. This dramatic Western is one of the first posters to depict such horrific events to the masses.Īctually a 10-part French film series, the poster asks “who? what? when? where?” to show the confusion about what exactly was terrorizing the characters.Īn intruding hand reaches for a terrified woman clutching her baby with a subtitle that reads “the cruel hand of intolerance” hinting at the four plots all based on intolerance. All the poster needed was Vesuvius looming in the background to entice moviegoers. The history of Pompeii was well known thanks to the rediscovery of the city 200 years before this film came out. There’s Richard III crying out in front of the carnage a vivid depiction of Shakespeare’s play. This early example of a silent-film poster paints the climax to give audiences something to look forward to. That meant leaving off of some classics, but offering look through movie-poster history. We looked at the best poster for each year of the past century. Movie posters help sell tickets, but they’re also an art unto themselves, whether they hint at the plot, highlight the stars or just offer an abstract representation of a key moment in the film. ![]()
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