Original Walt Disney One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Robert Stevenson musical family adventure, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS (1971) starring Angela Landsbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, and Sam Jaffe. During the London air raids of World War II, three children are sent to live in the country with Miss Price (Landsbury), whom the children discover is an apprentice witch. Once they discover this secret, they are swept up into a magical adventure on a traveling bed along with Miss Price and Professor Brown, the headmaster of the College of Witchcraft. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition.

Original Walt Disney 1979 Re-Release One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Robert Stevenson musical family adventure, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS (1971) starring Angela Landsbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, and Sam Jaffe. During the London air raids of World War II, three children are sent to live in the country with Miss Price (Landsbury), whom the children discover is an apprentice witch. Once they discover this secret, they are swept up into a magical adventure on a traveling bed along with Miss Price and Professor Brown, the headmaster of the College of Witchcraft. This original re-release one sheet poster is folded and in very good condition, with about a 3” tear in the top border area and signs of general theater use.

Original MGM Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the John Huston film-noir classic, THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)–starring Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, and a young Marilyn Monroe. This is the story of Doc Riedenschneider (Jaffe), who has just been released from prison and seeks financial backing for a million-dollar heist that he has been planning for years. At first the plan seems to be successful, until a host of “little” problems and double crosses causes the whole plot to fall apart. Huston plucked Marilyn from obscurity and catapulted her acting career with this role of the naive, voluptuous mistress. Harold Rosson’s exceptional cinematography and Miklos Rozsa’s emotional score further enhance this crime masterpiece. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including: Best Supporting Actor for Jaffe; Best Cinematography for Rosson; Best Director for Huston; and Best Screenplay for Ben Maddow and Huston. This is a very rare scene card with Monroe. The card is in fine plus condition with some minor border tears, which have been repaired with archival repair tissue. One of the most difficult to find Monroe posters.

Original MGM Color Printed Lithography Still (8×10) for the William Wyler historical epic, BEN-HUR (1959)—starring Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet. Considered by many critics to be the greatest achievement in cinematic history, Wyler not only had to direct literally “a cast of thousands,” but also was able to pull from his main actors the performances of their lives. Everything about this production was “Enormous.” 50,000 people were used to make the film on 300 sets covering more than 340 acres. The famous chariot race scene was shot in an 18-acre arena that took 40,000 tons of sand to make the track. The stands were packed with 8,000 extras, and it took over three months to shoot the entire scene. MGM, which nearly went bankrupt making the picture, spent over $12.5 million but grossed over $40 million on the project. The film won eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor to Heston, Best Supporting Actor to Griffith, and Best Director to Wyler. Interestingly enough, Gore Vidal worked as a script doctor on this film. This color still of House of Hur with Cathy O’Donnell, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott, Sam Jaffe, and Charlton Heston was found with a cache of roadshow posters from the movie. The still is dated 1959 and is in very fine condition. We have several stills from this release available on the site.

This is an original 20th Century-Fox Insert Poster (14×36) for the Robert Wise sci-fi masterpiece, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, and Sam Jaffe. Everything about this film is superior: a beautiful and literate script, superb and believable acting, skillful but restrained direction, incredible special effects for the time, and a magnificent score by Bernard Hermann which utilized one of the earliest electronic instruments, the eerie and other-worldly Theremin. Posters for this title are treasured by cinema collectors the world over. This original insert poster is in very fine condition. Klaatu barada nikto !!