The Legion of Decency: Under the Radar?
I have added to yesterday’s post Big Week for Noirs on Oz TV a rather risque poster for The Ghost Ship (1943), and a ‘covered-up’ version, which Dark City Dame (“DCD”) in a comment to the post, suggests, I think rightly, was a censored version of the original. DCD also tells us of another poster for I Love Trouble (1948), which leaves only a little more to the imagination. We both wonder if these two posters ever did get released?
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These posters must have been released as they are being traded. A ‘The Ghost Ship’ poster (Insert (14″ X 36″) sold for US$657 in July 2007 and an ‘I Love Trouble’ (Sheet 27″ X 41″) for US$956 in March 2008. Souce: Heritage Auctions Galleries (hg.com)
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — September 10, 2008 @ 9:13 am
Hey! D’Ambra,
You may want to take a look a book entitled “Collectors Compass Movie Collectibles:Posters,Stills,Glass Slides,Toys,Kitsch,
and Ephemera.”
“These posters must have been released as they are being traded…”
D’Ambra, What do you mean?
dcd
Comment by darkcitydame4e... — September 10, 2008 @ 11:45 am
Oh! btw, I have emailed 2 postershops (One of them I do business with) and I asked them the same question that you have asked the readers of Filmsnoir.net and that is…
…”We both wonder if these two posters ever did get released?”
dcd
Comment by darkcitydame4e... — September 10, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Having watched The Ghost Ship the other night, I must say the poster should go down in the annals as an example par excellence of misleading advertising: there are no ghosts on the ship and definitely no women. The only woman is a very proper spinster carrying a torch for the captain, who visits the ship in port…
Comment by Tony D'Ambra — September 18, 2008 @ 9:53 am
“Having watched The Ghost Ship the other night, I must say the poster should go down in the annals as an example par excellence of misleading advertising…” ha!ha!
D’Ambra,
I have linked an article that point(s) out how 10 movie posters have “mislead” the movie going public into the theatre(s).
and that the film “The Ghost Ship” wasn’t the only movie poster that “mislead” the theatre going public by using “false” or “misleading advertising.
(I am quite sure that you know this already!)
http://www.helium.com/items/912148-the-most-misleading-movie-posters-ever?page=3
Comment by darkcitydame4e... — September 18, 2008 @ 5:24 pm