Cat People (1942)

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

So the woman is the cat? Cheers now we don't need to see the movie. I'm not obsessive about spoilers but WTF.

I thought of this movie just the other day as a Transport For NSW 490 Bus sneaked up behind me and unexpectedly shot a blast of air from its pneumatics system. If you know, you know.

Dangerous Mission (1954)

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

Weird how much Price looks like Matthew McConaughey. Also weird how he has a gun and yet wants to kill Mature in the least efficient way possible. Does he want it to look like an accident?

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Experiment Perilous (1944)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment_Perilous
poster language: Spanish
Known as "Noche en el alma” only in Argentina, according to IMDB. Night in the soul?

This is, apparently, very similar to "Gaslight" and is therefore the "Dark City" to its "The Matrix", i.e. very similar, released the same year, and completely forgotten.

Maybe if the title wasn't so stupid it would have fared better.

Nora Prentiss (1947)

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

She had a lot to learn! For instance how many exclamation marks are too many!!!

I absolutely love the top image though not sure why she's pictured against a damp spot on her wall or tear in the fabric of reality or whatever that is.

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)
poster language: French
Great imagery/design, spoiled only perhaps by the fact that the artist had never seen a falcon and thought a sulky pigeon would be close enough.

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Street of Chance (1942)

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

Weird choice to add that stylised knife and dagger, getting in the way of her face and causing me to think it was "street of change" for a moment.

Also not being weird but why does Burgess Meredith look like he has 80s eyeshadow amateurishly applied? You do you, Burgess, live your truth.

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

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

Wow, lots of the plot laid out in detail for you here. You could turn up a few minutes late and not need to ask questions. That motif of a man and woman running toward the viewer, the man dragging the woman behind him, is a classic of this poster genre.

Among the Living (1941)

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

Yet again, one of those very ambiguous poses. Is he grasping her against her will, in which case why is she so cool about it? Possibly because she has that neat little gun tucked away where he can't see it. Now explain why he looks like he's about to fall asleep.

Lady in Cement (1968)

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

I think this is over the line of what counts as noir but hey it's so bonkers I couldn't delete it. This is THE action picture. Which explains why it disappeared without trace and nobody's heard of it.

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Dragnet (1954)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet_(1954_film)
poster language: German
Dramatic stuff. Interesting that the germans felt it necessary to translate the word "police" on his ID card and that the very dull phrase “major raid” was the best new title they could come up with.

The Strange Woman (1946)

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

They really needed you to know that a movie was based on a book sometimes, didn't they? And that it was written by the guy who brought you "Leave Her To Heaven", note bottom right. She doesn't look strange to me, she just looks like she's the "I want to speak to your manager" type.

The Sellout (1952)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sellout_(film)
poster language: French
Love the colour, the contrasts, the angle, particularly the gloomy blue clock drawn by someone who had never seen a clock and didn't know that the two hands are normally different lengths…?

If that's a special type of Boxing clock I'm sure fans of the Noble Art will let me know.