The latest Tuesday-closing auctions are underway at eMoviePoster.com and this time the spotlight falls on 504 half-sheets, 256 Belgians, and 168 Italian locandinas.

Among the selections topping the list are the style B half-sheet for the 1953 reissue of  Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, the half-sheet for the 1956 reissue of John Ford’ Rio Grande (John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara), the Belgian poster for John Ford’s The Searchers (John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter and Natalie Wood), the style A half-sheet for John Farrow’s Two Years Before The Mast (Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy and William Bendix), the Belgian poster for Nicholas Ray’s They Live By Night (Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell), the half-sheet for the 1973 reissue of Walt Disney’s Song Of The South, the half-sheet for George Lucas’ Star Wars (Tom Jung), and the international half-sheet (Gone With The Wind style art by Roger Kastel) and the style B half-sheet (art by Tom Jung) for Irvin Kershner’s The Empire Strikes Back.

Sir Alfred Hitchcock is represented by offerings from some of his most popular films, including the style A half-sheet and style B half-sheet from the 1965 reissue of Psycho (Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins), the Belgian poster and the 1970s reissue Italian locandina for Marnie (Sean Connery & Tippi Hedren), the half-sheet for Rope (Jimmy Stewart), the Belgian poster for the 1950s reissue of Notorious (Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman), the Italian locandina for the 1976 reissue of North By Northwest (Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint), and the half-sheet for The Trouble With Harry (Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe and Shirley MacLaine).

The half-sheet offerings also include Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake in Blondie In Society (1941) and Blondie Goes To College (1942), Northern Pursuit (Errol Flynn), Last Man On Earth (Vincent Price), Bedlam style B (Boris Karloff), Tarzan’s Desert Mystery style A (Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield and Cheetah), Funny Face style B (Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire), Not Of This Earth, Crazylegs style B (Elroy Hirsch and the Los Angeles Rams), Silent Night Evil Night, The Undead (Allison Hayes), Go Johnny Go (Chuck Berry and Alan Freed), Ghost Ship style A half-sheet (Richard Dix), the 1953 reissue Strange Confession (Lon Chaney, Jr., J. Carroll Naish and Brenda Joyce), and Moonraker (Roger Moore and Lois Chiles illustrated by Goozee).

The Belgian posters up for bid this time include Crossfire (Robert Young, Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan, The Adventures Of Captain Marvel (Tom Tyler), and Written On The Wind (Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson and Robert Stack), while the Italian locandinas include the 1970s reissue of Dr. No (Sean Connery and Ursula Andress), Passion (Yvonne De Carlo), Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, and The Story Of Robin Hood (Richard Todd and Joan Rice).

The most recent Tuesday-closing sessions saw the one-sheets for A Hard Day’s Night ($632), The Blob ($500) and Attack Of The Phantoms ($445) all attract attention.

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