Detective Story (1951)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Story_(1951_film)
poster language: French
Very literal translation. This is … awkward. His hands, his posture, the forced angle so we can see the gun, this is the kind of artwork we expect from AI, not a living human being in 1951,
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Dark City (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1950_film)
poster language: Italian
Her bruised, smudged-mascara vibe is very modern looking. It makes me think of Priss in “Blade Runner” rather than 1950s noir. Sketch-Charlton-Heston has a lot of confidence in the background there but he can't see how determined she looks.
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I The Jury (1953)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_the_Jury_(1953_film)
Whatever happened to Biff Elliot? No seriously I don't care.
Mickey Spillane was obviously known as a raunchy novelist and this was the first film made of one of his books? The phrase “man-woman violence” doesn't sound great in 2023, does it?
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Scarlet Street (1945)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Street
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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Night and the City (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_the_City
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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Open Secret (1948)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Secret
Meh. The only thing this does for me is make me wonder about the plot and how those men come to be in the newspaper.
How would you describe his expression? I went with "intently" in the alt but that's not quite right.
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Night and the City (1950)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_and_the_City
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)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unholy_Wife
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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The Burglar (1957)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burglar_(1957_film)
Her clothes are rather modern for 1957, but possibly a pant suit was shockingly indecent back in the day.
Unusual use of all lower case in the text.
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Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Kelly's_Blues_(film)
There's just something off about this, isn't there? The main image is too clean, it looks like a toothpaste commercial or something. And that thing about the 20s and the 38s is trying too hard.
Did someone sign this poster? And if so, who?
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Pitfall (1948)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall_(1948_film)
I love this. Someone will know the name of this very tall, narrow format, but this poster really makes the most of whatever it is, using the height to add drama but softening the strong vertical lines with that swoosh of colour.
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The Sellout (1952)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sellout_(film)
She wants a man, not a human punching bag! Does that mean she doesn't want a boxer, or that she doesn't want a boxer who loses? Or throws the fight which is presumably how the plot plays out.
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A Woman's Face (1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman's_Face
This one is a little ugly and messy and the font choices are weird. They put that giant lowercase scripty-looking 'a' over the top of something black, then had to add an outer glow to make it legible? If it was the same size as the other two words you wouldn't need to.
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Women's Prison (1955)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Prison_(1955_film)
This looks like a soft-porn exploitation flick from the 70s, and that's even before you get to the unforgettable phrase “real raw truth about man-smuggling”.
What on earth is going on with our friend on the right? She's dressed in a … sheet? Towel? And she's got some kind of … object in her left hand poking out from below it?
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