Tony Nourmand 55031, Graham Marsh 133219, Reel Poster Gallery
| Schrijver: | Tony Nourmand 55031, Graham Marsh 133219, Reel Poster Gallery |
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| Titel: | Film Posters of the 40s |
| ISBN: | 9781854108678 |
| Uitgever: | Aurum |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2002, Paperback, 127p |
| Prijs: | € 15,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 4,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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Considering that the world was at war during the first half of the decade and much of it still in ruins during the second half, the 1940s were an extraordinary fertile period for the cinema. This was the heyday of directors such as Orson Wells (Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai and The Third Man), Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious, Rope, Spellbound and Suspicion), Powell and Pressberger (Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes) and Jean Cocteau (La Belle et la Bete, Orphee); and of stars like Rita Hayworth, Ingrid Bergman, Betty Grable, Laurence Olivier, Clark Gable, Robert Mitchum and, of course, the incomparable Bogart and Bacall. Most lists of all-time favourites will include a host of 40s movies such as Casablanca and Brief Encounter. Surprisingly, perhaps, the decade produced relatively few memorable war films, though Twelve O'Clock High and the March of Time documentary series are notable exceptions. Indeed the setting that most characteristic of the cinema of the 1940s is not the battlefield, but the dark alleys and mean streets of the noir genre, represented here by titles such as The Blue Dahlia, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, The Postman Always Rings Twice and G
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