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The 49th Man (1953) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_49th_Man ...

2026-10-31T01:34:05Z

The 49th Man (1953)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_49th_Man

Wow, I've seen “The 3rd Man” but I had no idea I'd missed 46 other movies in the franchise.

This is such a mess. Top centre there's a guy … standing in the sea?

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Customs Agent (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_Agent ...

2026-10-30T01:34:06Z

Customs Agent (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customs_Agent

Part of a trend at the time to give ever more boring enforcement agencies their own movies.

I have never heard of William Eythe, I can't even guess what ethnic origin that name comes from. Dutch maybe? This is pretty dull except for that fact there's a helicopter battle going on in the background.

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The Man Who Died Twice (1958) ...

2026-10-29T01:34:05Z

The Man Who Died Twice (1958)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Died_Twice_(film)

The guy at the top is being shot by people who have obviously never heard the term "crossfire". You don't shoot directly across, guys, this is shooting-people 101.

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Clash by Night (1952) ...

2026-10-28T01:34:05Z

Clash by Night (1952)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_by_Night

A movie in the Venn diagram of Marilyn getting her name on the poster, but not being the star.

The poster/card is completely mad. Basically the same image, twice?

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Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) ...

2026-10-27T01:34:05Z

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Kelly's_Blues_(film)

There's just something off about this, isn't there? The main image is too clean, it looks like a toothpaste commercial or something. And that thing about the 20s and the 38s is trying too hard.

Did someone sign this poster? And if so, who?

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Pitfall (1948) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_(1948_film) ...

2026-10-26T01:34:06Z

Pitfall (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_(1948_film)

I love this. Someone will know the name of this very tall, narrow format, but this poster really makes the most of whatever it is, using the height to add drama but softening the strong vertical lines with that swoosh of colour.

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The Enforcer (1951) ...

2026-10-25T01:34:04Z

The Enforcer (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enforcer_(1951_film)
poster language: Italian
This is so dramatic and majestic. It's almost too noble and Renaissance-painting-like for Film Noir, they've removed the sleaze and dark sexiness entirely.

If there's someone out there recognising the work of a great artist here, let me know.

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Dead Reckoning (1947) ...

2026-10-24T01:34:05Z

Dead Reckoning (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Reckoning_(1947_film)

Are those stamps part of the design? Surely not. They're just … some stamps which have made their way onto the poster/lobby card somehow. Maybe someone just mailed it.

This is such a simple, powerful image, I love it.

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Johnny Angel (1945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Angel ...

2026-10-23T01:34:05Z

Johnny Angel (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Angel

This movie is all about hats, clearly. Her hat is amazing and his is pretty impressive too.

Signe Hasso is a new name to me, but Hollywood was full of Swedes back then for some reason.

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99 River Street (1953) ...

2026-10-22T01:34:04Z

99 River Street (1953)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_River_Street

Content warning: physical violence. Really not subtle, Film Noir poster makers. Also I can't stop thinking about Roy Lichtenstein though that was ten years after this.

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5 Fingers (1952) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Fingers ...

2026-10-21T01:34:04Z

5 Fingers (1952)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Fingers

There's a bit of a contrast between the pastel-y, warm sunset vibes of the design and the intensity of the subject matter.

The movie is set in WWII Turkey, who knew? There's a hint of an exotic location at the bottom, I guess. And it's based on a true story.

Sigh, on my to-watch pile it goes.

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Ride the Pink Horse (1947) ...

2026-10-20T01:34:04Z

Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_the_Pink_Horse

This is pretty great, love the colours and the tones, but the quality of the images deteriorates as you we go down until the last one is a cartoon, is it just me?

This is a pretty interesting movie, if you haven't seen it, the ethnic stereotypes and accents aren't great but a striking story and atmosphere.

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Road House (1948) ...

2026-10-19T01:34:04Z

Road House (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_House_(1948_film)

I wonder why they renamed “Roadhouse” to “The Cigarette Woman”, and not, I don't know, “maison rue”? I'm sure they have a similar concept in France.

I mostly like this one but her expression is just too weird.

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Hideout (1949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideout_(film) That ...

2026-10-18T01:34:05Z

Hideout (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideout_(film)

That E is the only thing I can look at. Surely that's not the E from the regular font, it's a backward 3? Maybe my years of seeing 1337 speak have ruined my brain but that E ain't right.

Also, sorry to tell you this but you can get away with murder people do it all the time. Put in quotes and maybe we have a deal.

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The Woman in the Window (1944) ...

2026-10-17T01:34:05Z

The Woman in the Window (1944)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_the_Window_(1944_film)
poster language: German
Totally different view of this movie, it looks like some kind of benign children's story about a kindly old uncle and his niece. “Dangerous Encounter” is the German title.

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The Hoodlum (1951) ...

2026-10-16T01:34:04Z

The Hoodlum (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoodlum_(1951_film)

He doesn't look like a hoodlum, he looks strangely dapper and sophisticated, as if he's going to say “terrible sorry about robbing you, old chap”.

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While the City Sleeps (1956) ...

2026-10-15T01:34:05Z

While the City Sleeps (1956)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_the_City_Sleeps_(1956_film)

This is kind of weirdly constrained and centred, it looks like a paperback book cover more than a movie poster.

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2026-10-14T23:30:05Z

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The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) ...

2026-10-14T01:34:05Z

The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_Black_Stockings

Va va voom, I think it's fair to say, and possibly even hubba hubba.

That image in the middle is very awkward. I can't understand how their bodies work or why two cowboys in blue jeans are in the background flirting with each other.

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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) ...

2026-10-13T01:34:05Z

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Tomorrow_Goodbye_(film)
poster language: French
How would you describe what she's wearing? She looks like a farm-girl almost, it's very different to the sheer, strapless, slit-to-the-thigh evening gowns we're used to seeing here at the Film Noir Movie Poster Project. Her hair is tied back too, she's definitely coded as a Good Girl, right?

“Goodbye Life, Goodbye Love” in French.

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The Breaking Point (1950) ...

2026-10-12T01:34:05Z

The Breaking Point (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breaking_Point_(1950_film)
poster language: French
“Strange Cargo” in French. That person untying the boat has suffered some kind of terrible back injury, obviously that's going to be part of the plot when I finally watch this movie and the other three hundred and eight, I'm not even kidding, movies on my To Be Watched list.

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Caged (1950) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caged_(1950_film) ...

2026-10-11T01:34:04Z

Caged (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caged_(1950_film)
poster language: Spanish
Great tones to this, great colours, the shadows and the reflected light are really effective.

There's a huge difference between the European posters of the period and the American ones. Someone knowledgeable can maybe tell me if there's a technical, production difference in how they're made?

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The Brasher Doubloon (1947) ...

2026-10-10T01:34:04Z

The Brasher Doubloon (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brasher_Doubloon

Some doubloons are brasher than others
Some doubloons are brasher than others
Some doubloons' mothers
Are brasher than other doubloons' mothers

This may be the funniest thing I have ever written, or it may mean I need to take a retreat in a monastery and think hard about my life choices.

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Sunset Boulevard (1950) ...

2026-10-09T01:34:04Z

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)

“A young man hired to satisfy the cravings of a mature woman", I think that means, which makes Sunset Boulevard sound WAY more sexy than it actually is.

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Cat People (1942) ...

2026-10-08T01:34:05Z

Cat People (1942)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film)

A movie with a cat in it, you'd think they could find a poster artist who had, you know, ever SEEN an actual cat. This is as bizarre as those medieval drawings of giraffes by people who had only heard vague third hand descriptions of them.

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2026-10-07T23:30:04Z

The Sellout (1952) ...

2026-10-07T01:34:05Z

The Sellout (1952)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sellout_(film)

Great dramatic image.

Some day soon I'm going to look up the plot and see why this guy ruined his life for only thirty bucks, but presumably was paid to take the dive but didn't, or he wouldn't have been hunted in the alley.

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Detour (1945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour_(1945_film) ...

2026-10-06T01:34:05Z

Detour (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detour_(1945_film)

Weird script-y font aside this is great stuff. Lots of diagonals in conflict with each other. Her legs get half the poster all to themselves.

Am I right that he's reaching a lit match over his shoulder to light her cigarette? Dangerous thing to do in those days of non-flame-retardant fabrics and all that lacquer women wore in their hair.

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The Night of the Hunter (1955) ...

2026-10-05T01:34:05Z

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film)

All-time classic movie, is it borderline noir and almost something else? Southern Gothic or something?

Love the drama of the lighting and the shadows, and the contrast between foreground and background.

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The Naked Street (1955) ...

2026-10-04T01:34:05Z

The Naked Street (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Street

Excuse me my hands are tired from typing out all that text, I need a break.

Seriously, less is more, people. Leave some mystery. We complain these days about trailers giving away the whole plot, but not posters!

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Cat People (1942) ...

2026-10-03T02:34:04Z

Cat People (1942)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film)

Again, not really a Noir but hey I might as well leave it in. The movie which gave us the “Lewton Bus” which is every bit as iconic as the Wilhelm Scream in its way.

Has everyone forgotten the 80s remake with the Bowie song by now? I hope so.

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Woman on the Run (1950) ...

2026-10-02T02:34:05Z

Woman on the Run (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_on_the_Run

It doesn't look like she's on the run, it looks like he's on the run and she's following him. Interesting contrast between the urban setting of the main image and the fact that they're in a forest/wooded setting in the other one. We don't normally do 'forest' in Film Noir, unless its Petrified.

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Ramrod (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramrod_(film) She ...

2026-10-01T02:34:05Z

Ramrod (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramrod_(film)

She doesn't look soft and warm, she looks like she's made of plastic.

Only those weird little silhouettes at the bottom give away that this isn't really a Film Noir at all, it's a western.

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2026-10-01T00:30:05Z

White Heat (1949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Heat poster ...

2026-09-30T02:34:05Z

White Heat (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Heat
poster language: French
“Hell is his” roughly, in French?

This is powerful, great chiaroscuro but I'm slightly distracted by how tiny that gun looks in Cagney's weirdly distorted hand. That is not how thumbs work in my experience.

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Sunset Boulevard (1950) ...

2026-09-29T02:34:04Z

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)
poster language: Italian
This is lovely and dramatic without any actual drama being shown. You can tell just from her expression and that hand gesture.

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D.O.A. (1949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(1950_film) A ...

2026-09-28T02:34:06Z

D.O.A. (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.O.A._(1950_film)

A picture as excitingly different as its title! A poster which appears to have been painted by a ten-year-old child!

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Ossessione (1943) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossessione I have ...

2026-09-27T02:34:04Z

Ossessione (1943)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossessione

I have no idea what this movie is about at all. This poster looks like a student/fanzine/photocopied handout, not a professional poster but hey maybe that's the point of it. The drama, the bleak interior make me think of David Lynch, which of course I've been doing a lot lately.

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The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) ...

2026-09-26T02:34:05Z

The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Thumbs_a_Ride

What a mess. Nothing matches up or holds together.

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Out of the Fog (1941) ...

2026-09-25T02:34:05Z

Out of the Fog (1941)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Fog_(1941_film)

Rather unflattering pouty expression on Lupino's face, and it's incongruous how she looks like that but he looks so amused. Nice bold design with the angles and the lines across the main title font.

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A Bullet for Joey (1955) ...

2026-09-24T02:34:06Z

A Bullet for Joey (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bullet_for_Joey

Header image time! Though I reversed it because it looks better in Mastodon that way. I like how the diagonal of the spotlight carries across the image.

The image of the man gripping the woman's dress from behind is creepy but I don't know if it was supposed to be like that at the time/in context.

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2026-09-24T00:30:05Z

Laura (1944) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_(1944_film) For ...

2026-09-23T02:34:05Z

Laura (1944)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_(1944_film)

For some reason every damn poster for this movie gets to use the letter L as a big-ass graphic element. I guess you can't frame things in most letters. You could get some mileage out of a big C though.

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The Tattered Dress (1957) ...

2026-09-22T02:34:08Z

The Tattered Dress (1957)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tattered_Dress

Never heard of this film, and the plot sounds pretty wild.

I like how the woman on the left is outlined with jagged, offset blocks. The image on the right contributes nothing except the vague promise of some steaminess.

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Danger Signal (1945) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Signal ...

2026-09-21T02:34:11Z

Danger Signal (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Signal

This is terrific, I love the almost-Japanese simplicity of it, the brushstrokes, which are mirrored in the font. It's spoiled a little by the goofy melodramatic expression on his face.

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Mildred Pierce (1945) ...

2026-09-08T02:34:06Z

Mildred Pierce (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce_(film)
poster language: German
In German: “as long as a heart beats”.

This poster for Mildred Pierce kind of shoves the Midred-ness of it into the background and highlights the men, doesn't it?

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The Woman in the Window (1944) ...

2026-09-07T02:34:10Z

The Woman in the Window (1944)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_the_Window_(1944_film)

A woman with scissors again! Or is it always this movie with the scissors. Edward G looks totally different with that curly hair over his forehead.

Way too much text, people. Way too much. That's not a tagline that's a short story.

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In a Lonely Place (1950) ...

2026-09-06T02:34:08Z

In a Lonely Place (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Lonely_Place
poster language: Italian
“Fear without why”? Cheers, google translate.

Hell of a dramatic image.

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The Power of the Whistler (1945) ...

2026-09-02T02:34:04Z

The Power of the Whistler (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Whistler

Another Whistler thing. It was huge at the time but completely forgotten now.

I don't love this poster, partly because it looks like the hands belong to that guy but they're too big so they don't. Also what are the red lines and why are they dashed? Do they symbolise radio broadcasts? Why is YOU underlined?

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Cry of the City (1948) ...

2026-08-31T02:34:05Z

Cry of the City (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry_of_the_City

I like how the composition works, you have your city street in the middle, the one face looking down and right, another looking up and left. I don't like that crouching guy lower left with the handgun. That's the one item of jewellery you take off, designer.

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A Lady Without Passport (1950) ...

2026-08-30T02:34:06Z

A Lady Without Passport (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lady_Without_Passport

She was Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille's “Samson and Delilah” (1949). Also as I'm sure you know, she invented a key component of how WiFi works today.

Did you ever stop to wonder what “WiFi” stands for? You should be more curious about the world is my advice.

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Mildred Pierce (1945) ...

2026-08-29T02:34:05Z

Mildred Pierce (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce_(film)
poster language: Italian
This looks almost like a period piece set in regency times, the cover of a Georgette Heyer novel. I like its painterly, watercolour even, qualities. I feel like the guy kissing her will look up and it will be Jude Law for some reason.

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Fortune Is a Woman (1957) ...

2026-08-28T02:34:05Z

Fortune Is a Woman (1957)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_Is_a_Woman
poster language: German
Released in the US as ”She Played With Fire”. I *think* the German title is "am seidenen faden" or "by a thread" but that font has defeated me. It's unusual to see an actual injury in these things. Normally people are either unconscious/dead. This guy is nursing a wound.

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King of the Underworld (1939) ...

2026-08-25T02:34:05Z

King of the Underworld (1939)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Underworld_(1939_film)

This is nicely understated. I found it very hard to alt-text the description on his face. It's almost "who, me?" or "did I do that?", faintly comical.

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Women's Prison (1955) ...

2026-08-24T02:34:06Z

Women's Prison (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Prison_(1955_film)

This looks like a soft-porn exploitation flick from the 70s, and that's even before you get to the unforgettable phrase “real raw truth about man-smuggling”.

What on earth is going on with our friend on the right? She's dressed in a … sheet? Towel? And she's got some kind of … object in her left hand poking out from below it?

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Mildred Pierce (1945) ...

2026-08-23T02:34:06Z

Mildred Pierce (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Pierce_(film)

“Mildred Pierce” seems to bring out the creativity in poster designers. This is a weird mixture of things but it really pops, as they say.

Did they deliberately make it look like that guy is staring at her cleavage or is that just me?

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Dead Reckoning (1947) ...

2026-08-22T02:34:06Z

Dead Reckoning (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Reckoning_(1947_film)
poster language: French
A.K.A. “on the sidelines of the investigation” — which is a terrible title in English but the rhythm really works in French.

I like this one, though poor old Bogart has come off badly as usual. That arm crossing the frame in the "wrong" direction is a powerful visual element.

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The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) ...

2026-08-21T02:34:05Z

The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_File_on_Thelma_Jordon

Weird spelling of "Jordon".

This poster is terrific, it really goes for it with the colour and the intensity.

Note for Australians. Not THAT Paul Kelly. Or the other one. Or the other other one.

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Portrait of Alison (1955) ...

2026-08-20T02:34:06Z

Portrait of Alison (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Alison

Released in the US as “Postmark for Danger”.

This is one of those too-literal ones, isn't it? Let's make a stamp with the guy's face on it, the movie is about a postcard, right?

I honestly can't tell if that's her hand behind her head or a noose at the bottom.

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2026-08-20T00:30:05Z

The Girl on the Bridge (1951) ...

2026-08-19T02:34:05Z

The Girl on the Bridge (1951)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_on_the_Bridge_(1951_film)

I'm looking askance at that weird derp-face expression she has and so is Hugo Haas.

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Cornered (1945) ...

2026-08-18T02:34:05Z

Cornered (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornered_(1945_film)

Another poster telling us that Dick Powell is a bad guy. Is that to reassure people it's not a sappy movie just because he's in it? Or to warn fans of Dick Powell Classic™ that they're in for a rough ride?

The fan thing seems to be Nina Vale's trademark, just hit up Google Image Search if you don't believe me.

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Street of Chance (1942) ...

2026-08-17T02:34:05Z

Street of Chance (1942)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_of_Chance_(1942_film)

Pretty wild image, partly because you can't clearly see the faces of either person. Also because, what is happening exactly? Someone outside the car has a gun and is trying to kill you … maybe “keep the door closed” isn't the 100% optimal survival strategy?

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2026-08-16T02:34:04Z

Pitfall (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_(1948_film)
poster language: Italian
That weird shape is probably supposed to be jagged and dynamic, but to me it's just not jagged enough. Nothing much to like about this one except that guy's goofy expression.

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Please Murder Me (1956) ...

2026-08-15T02:34:05Z

Please Murder Me (1956)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Murder_Me

The title is so bonkers it almost seems like a parody along the lines of “Naked Gun”, but hey the genre of “people who arrange their own murder” has some notable entries. “Bullworth” anyone? Aki Kaurismäki's “I Hired A Contract Killer”?

There's another one on the tip of my tongue. One of you will know.

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The Big Sleep (1946) ...

2026-08-14T02:34:05Z

The Big Sleep (1946)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sleep_(1946_film)

The Big Sleep is the source of my favourite movie trivia of all time—when Raymond Chandler, the author of the original novel, was asked who killed minor character Owen Taylor he replied "I don't know".

Never mind all your unreliable narrators and fourth wall breakers, he doesn't even *know*. That's metal.

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White Heat (1949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Heat You ...

2026-08-13T02:34:05Z

White Heat (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Heat

You know what's famous for being white? Mayo. Sorry I have an infantile sense of humour.

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2026-08-13T00:30:05Z

Mask of the Dragon (1951) ...

2026-08-12T02:34:06Z

Mask of the Dragon (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_the_Dragon

I don't know where to start. Just look at this.

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House Of Bamboo (1955) ...

2026-08-11T02:34:06Z

House Of Bamboo (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bamboo
poster language: Italian
I love this one, the layout particularly, but the whole thing is a nice combination of painterly and photographic.

Robert Ryan back then looks rather like Robert Redford now.

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Where Danger Lives (1950) ...

2026-08-10T02:34:04Z

Where Danger Lives (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Danger_Lives

More creepy misogynistic violence, or implied violence.

Can we really trace this all back to a post-WWII “crisis of masculinity” because women took over traditionally masculine roles?

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Ruthless (1948) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless_(film) ...

2026-08-09T02:34:05Z

Ruthless (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthless_(film)

It's the attack of the giant adjectives, run for your lives!

Love the colours and the layout. Somehow the colours evoke "travel poster" a little but I can't say why.

For a Ruthless man whose code is "power and money", the expression on his face is a little dull.

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Shield for Murder (1954) ...

2026-08-08T02:34:05Z

Shield for Murder (1954)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_for_Murder

Nice tones, nice composition, nice brushstroke-y design elements. Has he hit that guy? Is he going to hit that guy? Very clunky title though.

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The Unknown Man (1951) ...

2026-08-07T02:34:04Z

The Unknown Man (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Man

"Who are the sinister powers?" makes me think immediately of "what are the 39 steps?" Is "The 39 Steps" a film noir? I don't think so.

If you're picking three adjectives to describe your movie, maybe end on something less wishy-washy than "timely". Anticlimactic or what?

Aesthetically, this barely rises above "meh".

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The Desperate Hours (1955) ...

2026-08-06T02:34:06Z

The Desperate Hours (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desperate_Hours_(1955_film)
poster language: German
There are terrible portrayals of poor old Bogey in this collection but this MUST be the worst, right? I honestly couldn't be sure it was him. Maybe he's a zombie in this movie.

Maybe I should have a horror-movie version of this bot one day. On the list it goes, sigh.

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2026-08-06T00:30:04Z

Caught (1949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caught_(1949_film) ...

2026-08-05T02:34:04Z

Caught (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caught_(1949_film)

Barbara Bel Geddes was such a huge presence in “Dallas” I always forget she was an ingenue back in the day.

Everything here is bracketed by a big C for “Caught”? It kind of works I guess.

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Double Jeopardy (1955) ...

2026-08-04T02:34:06Z

Double Jeopardy (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(1955_film)

Those two in the back have the craziest expressions, he looks like The Joker and she looks like she's singing at the top of her lungs.

I was very confused about this poster until I realised I was mixing it up with "Double Indemnity" which is a much darker vibe in multiple senses of the word.

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Spellbound (1945) ...

2026-08-03T02:34:05Z

Spellbound (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellbound_(1945_film)

This one is truly weird. Five different views of them kissing, then a team of surgeons. It's not even a good game of "one of these things is not like the other".

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2026-08-02T02:34:05Z

Crossfire (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(film)

The three Roberts! There is almost nothing to like here, it's a mess.

It's *almost* outsider art but not outsider enough for me.

He looks like he's giving that gun away to someone who doesn't want it. C'mon! It's a free gun? Who doesn't like a free gun.

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2026-08-01T02:34:04Z

Key Largo (1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Largo_(film)
poster language: Italian
I love nearly everything about this, maybe not how Lauren Bacall's face came out. Wild tropical colours, dramatic diagonals, the hint of a natural disaster.

The Italian means "Coral Island" which is a very well known boys-own-adventure book in the English Speaking World. I can only assume that it was released in Italy under the name "Key Largo".

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I was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951) ...

2026-07-31T02:34:06Z

I was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_a_Communist_for_the_FBI

Pretty dull and flat, though there's a sense of perspective in the photo behind him, probably added by the graphics artist desperate to add some depth. Horrible colours.

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Gilda (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda poster language: ...

2026-07-30T02:34:06Z

Gilda (1946)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilda
poster language: Czech
I'll never get over how the Czech just reformat our names to fit their ideas of what a name should be Rita Hayworthová! We should all start doing that. Jackie Chan becomes Jackie Channington-Smythe when his movies are released in England, why not?

This is pretty dull and all moiréd out, but it's a great poster. Less is more.

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2026-07-30T00:30:05Z

Destination Murder (1950) ...

2026-07-29T02:34:05Z

Destination Murder (1950)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Murder

Two tickets to murder please! This one has lots of let's say "brio". Love the curves and the way that font follows them around in a swirl.

"Hurd Hatfield" sounds completely made up. Surely that's a name you'd find in a Coen brothers pastiche of 50s Hollywood, it's so perfect.

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The Desperate Hours (1955) ...

2026-07-27T02:34:06Z

The Desperate Hours (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desperate_Hours_(1955_film)

Simple and effective, the colours are doing a lot with a little and that outlining effect really adds something. It looks like a glitch as much as a deliberate effect.

These days the desperate hours are like 3–4 PM for me. At what point can I stop work and get back to slacking off online, amirite?

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Detective Story (1951) ...

2026-07-26T02:34:06Z

Detective Story (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Story_(1951_film)
poster language: French
Very literal translation. This is … awkward. His hands, his posture, the forced angle so we can see the gun, this is the kind of artwork we expect from AI, not a living human being in 1951,

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Crack-Up (1946) ...

2026-07-25T02:34:05Z

Crack-Up (1946)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack-Up_(1946_film)

Her dress is asymmetrical, and now I'm recalling that I read a blog once by a woman who was studying psychology and also working in a strip club, and she said she'd determined that customers tipped the performers less when they wore asymmetrical clothes. This is very hard to google for safely you just take my word for it.

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The Enforcer (1951) ...

2026-07-24T02:34:05Z

The Enforcer (1951)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enforcer_(1951_film)
poster language: Spanish
“Without [a] Conscience” in Español. This is a curious mix of things; some of it almost looks like a children's book. I'm not about to transcribe all the text but is there a Spanish word for "copaganda"?

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Angel Face (1953) ...

2026-07-23T02:34:04Z

Angel Face (1953)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Face_(1953_film)
poster language: French
The French flipped the title completely around: from Angel Face to Infernal Beauty. Maybe that's a saying in French, I don't know. I studied high school French and that was an another century.

This is wildly over the top, the "infernal" theme being picked up with hints of flame everywhere.

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2026-07-23T00:30:05Z

Too Late for Tears (1949) ...

2026-07-22T02:34:06Z

Too Late for Tears (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Late_for_Tears
poster language: Spanish
It's too late for tears in English but MUCH too late for tears in Spanish.

This one is just wild, I love it. Whoever ANIRAM is (Marina backwards, right?) well done.

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They Drive by Night (1940) ...

2026-07-21T02:34:04Z

They Drive by Night (1940)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Drive_by_Night

Great lurid colour scheme and lighting. I'm slightly distracted by thinking there's no way you could actually get that shot of Bogart driving the car unless the car had been dismantled.

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Nora Prentiss (1947) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Prentiss ...

2026-07-20T02:34:05Z

Nora Prentiss (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Prentiss
poster language: Spanish
I guess "Nore Prentiss" doesn't sound very interesting to a Spanish audience, so this is "The Sentence", presumably in the legal sense. It's not a movie about a woman who speaks a really really long sentence.

Pretty sure her makeup wouldn't be that garish IRL.

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Killer's Kiss (1955) ...

2026-07-19T02:34:05Z

Killer's Kiss (1955)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer's_Kiss

Another movie I've never heard of starring two people I've never heard of.

I may have the sense of humour of a 12-year-old boy but it's kind of funny that the film has "kiss" in the title and it looks as if he's about to kiss the other guy with that bizarre expression on his face.

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Brute Force (1947) ...

2026-07-18T02:34:07Z

Brute Force (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_Force_(1947_film)

Not sure what's going on with those extraneous quotes. We tell it the "killers" way? Is that a reference to another film called "The Killers"?

The colour red is doing a lot of work here, particularly in that lovely costume, worn by … probably that's Yvonne DeCarlo? She sounds the most ethnic.

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Knock on Any Door (1949) ...

2026-07-17T02:34:05Z

Knock on Any Door (1949)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_on_Any_Door
poster language: French
"Ruelles du Malheur" is "Alleys of Misfortune", directly translated.

Nobody suffers as much as poor old Humphrey in this collection. Poster artists just do whatever they want with that rumpled old face.

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Secret Beyond the Door (1947) ...

2026-07-16T02:34:04Z

Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Beyond_the_Door

I'm not familiar with this film at all, I'll put it on my very very long list of movies to watch I guess.

But at first glance this looks very much like a Bluebeard situation. You may open every door in the house, Joan Bennet, but not that extremely large green one!

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Shoot the Piano Player (1960) ...

2026-07-15T02:34:04Z

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_the_Piano_Player
poster language: French
In French, (and in Dutch or Flemish or whatever that is across the bottom) it's "shoot AT the piano player", it would seem.

He has a very smug expression, doesn't he? Especially for someone playing a rather cheap-looking upright piano, not a fancy grand one. I think we had that same piano in my primary school.

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