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The Desperate Hours (1955)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Desp

There's something weirdly clown-like about this. The colours are too bright and their expressions are weird. I don't know why that woman looks so affronted to be offered a drink by that nice Sling Blade looking guy.

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Crossfire (1947)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfir

This one is weird. The foreshortening make it look like she's about three feet tall, or he's a giant. Why is everything in that weird speech-bubble shape? What's the point of all that wasted space? Does the cinema paste a strip of paper across that part with showtimes?

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This Gun for Hire (1942)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Gun

Another movie named after a Springsteen lyric, did these 1940s guys have no originality?

I used to love Bruce Springsteen, but then I read his autobiography. Never meet your heroes, even if it's just in autobiography form.

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Scarlet Street (1945)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_

Not a lot of scarlet in this image. The colours are not only ugly but clash with each other as well. Good film though, put it on your list.

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San Quentin (1946)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quen

Weird situation going on there, if that guy has just shot his gun, who has he shot, or shot at? Everyone seems fine.

Perhaps Lewis E Lawes [crazy name, crazy guy!] former warden of Sing Sing, will explain it to me.

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Night and the City (1950)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_an

Each of these images is fine by itself but somehow the weird out-of-proportion way they're superimposed is comical.

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Breakdown (1952)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakdow

Ugh, this again, I feel like there are more posters for this than anything else.

Incidentally, does anyone know where I got these images? I downloaded them years ago and have completely forgotten. Maybe it was via Reddit, /r/datahoarders or /r/opendirectories maybe. Are they scans of a book? Am I violating copyright?

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Shadows in the Night (1944)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_

“The fatal chandelier”? OK, I guess. This is terrible in almost every way. What's going on with that guy middle left, has his hat fallen down, is he wearing a mask or what? Is that one window and its reflection, or two windows?

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Gaslight (1944)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight

“Strange drama of a captive sweetheart!” is not how I'd describe this movie. I'm not sure it's even a noir. It has a kind of Monty Python cut-and-paste-out-of-context vibe, randomly placed images everywhere.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Malt
poster language: French
I don't think this is contemporary, it's a reissue? It's got "A selection of great classics" at the bottom. Interesting how the writer of the original novel has his name the same size as John Huston.

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Fallen Angel (1945)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_A

This movie seems to be about a disappointed woman who has bought a new pair of shoes and they've given her blisters.

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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_t

I would type a comment but my fingers are exhausted from typing out the ALT description.

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Affair in Trinidad (1952)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_i

Come on, Trinidad Tourism Marketing Board, take it down a notch, will you?

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The Long Wait (1954)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long

Mickey Spillane was huge back in the day but completely forgotten now.

This has great lighting and a nice ambiguity. Are they working together, is the gun being used as a threat? Their expressions are enigmatic.

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Just saw poster The Marvels movie in the wild - shade of old school ‘80s-style to the poster, which I like.

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711 Ocean Drive (1950)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/711_Ocea

I have no idea from this poster what could be in the film. Action of all kinds, including a shootout at a dam? But it was filmed under police protection, so it must be — actually I don't know what that implies?

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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Tom

He's hot, but he has a heart of ice? That text on the right is really clunky, the story of the career of, it just sounds awkward. Like that three-piece suit he's wearing. Somehow I feel gangsters shouldn't wear waistcoats.

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Violent Saturday (1955)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_
poster language: French
“Strangers in town” in French. This is great illustration, minimalist almost—I guess the big gap at the top is to incorporate some kind of extra info like a local cinema's specific showtimes?

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Night and the City (1950)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_an

This weird design makes both main actors look up and to the left, so we're all staring at that guy behind bars, but they're not prison bars, right? They're weirdly angled? It's confusing and awkward.

Note the slight hint in that background image that the city in question is London.

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The Unholy Wife (1957)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unho
poster language: French
“The woman and the prowler” in French.

This is a great image but I don't know why it's crumbling away on the right. Is that smoke? I don't get it. Also what's he wearing, what's on his back?

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