Mighty Movies: Movie Poster Art from Hollywood's Greatest Adventure Epics and Spectaculars [Paperback]

Lawrence Bassoff (Author)

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Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Lawrence Bassoff Collection; illustrated edition edition (January 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1886310149
ISBN-13: 978-1886310148
Product Dimensions: 35.6 x 27.6 x 1.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,246,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The splendour, savagery and spectacle of the screen epics that staggered the world! Mighty Movies chronicles the age of the classic Hollywood blockbuster (1932--1970) by presenting and evaluating 200 authentic movie posters, lobby cards, and related memorabilia items from 100 film examples. A special appendix features an additional movie poster retrospective of the muscleman-driven 'sword and sandal' costume spectacles produced in Europe from 1957 to 1965. Originally displayed in movie theatres, these rare, ravishing, and valuable movie posters and lobby cards also illustrate the in-house movie poster styles and printing processes utilised by the major Hollywood studios of the day.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hercules and Goliath posters!, April 6 2005

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This review is from: Mighty Movies: Movie Poster Art from Hollywood's Greatest Adventure Epics and Spectaculars (Paperback)

Spanning the years 1932 - 1970 "Mighty Movies" is a visual treat for movie lovers like myself. Packed from cover to cover with around 200 vintage posters of Biblical epics, swashbucklers and sword and sandal spectacles like HERCULES UNCHAINED and GOLIATH AND THE DRAGON. I couldn't help but dream about how wonderful it must have been to watch all these movies in the theater.

In addition to all the great posters Bassoff has added lots of information about the movies themselves. One interesting fact I learned was in 1912 the Astor Theatre in Manhattan raised it's ticket price from 15 cents to $1.50 for Guazzoni's now lost QUO VADIS!

Here are some of the posters I enjoyed the most:

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

SAMSON AND DELILAH

MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

THE PRODIGAL

GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON

GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES

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