Adventures of the Blackgang

art-decodence:

Fun art deco movie posters and scenes from Sweet Surrender, 1935. There are LOTS of really great art deco style movie posters from the 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s!

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Voyage of the Damned (Avco Embassy, 1976) One Sheet (27" X 41")

Starring Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles, James Mason, Lee Grant, Katherine Ross, Sam Wanamaker, and Julie Harris. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.

Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis sent the luxury liner MS St. Louis with hundred of Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba.

The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (Columbia, 1953)

Tarzan and the Mermaids (RKO, 1948)

On the Waterfront (Columbia, 1954). One Sheet

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966) movie poster

Operation Deep Freeze, a scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers unusual tree specimens. When specimens are shipped out for further study, the trees are accidentally introduced to a south seas Navy base, soon revealing themselves to be killer, acid-secreting monsters that live by night. Starring Mamie Van Doren

Hellcats of the Navy (Columbia, 1957) French poster

Submarine commander (Ronald Reagan) takes on the Japanese in this World War II film.

Bird of Paradise, 1932
artist: Bernard Lancy

La Grande Illusion: Vintage French Movie Posters

La Terra Trema (Victor Film, 1949) Italian poster

Luchino Visconti’s pseudo-documentary look at the exploitation of Sicilian fishermen was based on Giovanni Verga’s 1881 novel I Malavoglia. The townspeople of Aci Trezza, Sicily, portrayed themselves, speaking in their native dialects and fretting about economic hardship for over 160 minutes of screen time. As nobly neorealist as such an endeavor must have seemed, it died at the box office.

More grueling than illuminating, this film was the first of a proposed trilogy (the remaining films were to deal with Sicilian peasants and miners) that Visconti mercifully never got around to making.

The Mysterious Island (MGM, 1929). French poster

The Ship from Shanghai (MGM, 1930)

Conrad Nagel stars an American playboy in Shanghai who decides to join an English girl (Kay Johnson) and yacht owners (Holmes Herbert and Carmel Myers) on a Trans-Pacific sail to the United States. Tragedy unfolds as the crazed steward (Louis Wolheim) instigates a mutiny, takes over the ship, and imprisons the socialites.

Below the Surface (Silent, 1920) Swedish poster

This expertly rendered potboiler stars Hobart Bosworth as a salvage diver approached by con artists that want him to front for a fake company recovering gold from ship wrecks. When he refuses, they pressure him by threatening his son.

This silent movie from 1920 is beautifully acted and well shot, mostly on location.

Adventures of Captain Fabian (Republic, 1951) Argentinean Poster

Starring Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Victor Francen, Howard Vernon, Jim Gérald, Héléna Manson, and Valentine Camax. Directed by William Marshall and Robert Florey.

The Sea Spoilers; Universal, 1936 (Belgian theatre poster)

When a Coast Guard Commander arrives at his actress girlfriend’s yacht he find the owner dead, contraband seal skins,  and his girlfriend gone.