Anthony Mann blackmail romantic crime film noir ("Where temptation lurks"; "Fate dropped thirty thousand dollars in his lap!"; "Fate dropped thirty thousand dollars into his lap!"; about a war veteran whose wife is pregnant, and he is desperate for money, and he sees what he thinks is a few hundred dollars in a shady lawyer's office, but it turns out, after he takes it, that it is $30,000 in blackmail money, and he decides to return it, but one of the people involved in the blackmail is murdered, and he becomes the lead suspect, and he must clear himself) starring Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, Paul Kelly, Jean Hagen (in her second movie role), and Adele Jergens. Note that this movie reunited the stars of They Live By Night, and it is a similar film noir, but directed by Anthony Mann instead of Nicholas Ray.
Extra Information:
Condition: Very Good, linen-backed
Measures: 27” x 41” [69 x 104 cm]
Poster Type: US One-sheet
Linen-backed: Yes
Side Street (1950)
POSTER TYPE
One-Sheet
27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]
POSTER CONDITION & GRADING
Very Good, linen-backed. This poster was in good to very good condition prior to linen-backing. You can still see faint signs of the original fold lines and restoration work to those flaws, but this poster now looks really good and it displays well, and most collectors would be happy to hang this on their wall.
DIRECTOR
MANN, Anthony
POSTER TAGLINE & DESCRIPTION
1948 Jack Donohue romantic murder crime film noir ("Thrill-a-minute close-up of Murder!"; "The Decoy!"; "The Ride!"; "The Kill!"; "Close-up of a killer... filmed with a camera that's loaded for thrills!"; From an Original Story by James Poe starring Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Kollmar (billed as introducing "Radio's 'Boston Blackie'"), Loring Smith, and Phillip Huston. Note that this movie was made the year following Jacques Tourneur’s noir masterpiece "Out of the Past", and the producers of the movie made up star actress Virginia Gilmore to look a lot like Jane Greer had looked in that hit movie the year before.