Author: John Reid
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JUNGLE JIM Daybill Movie Posters Original or Reissue?
Jungle Jim was very popular as a TV series in Australia in the 60s and a number of the 1950s films were re released to cash in on the appeal of the show. Green and black stock daybills were printed…
MAJOR Collection of Original Australian Movie posters 1920’s – 70s
Over the next two months, we will be listing one of the finest collections of Australian Movie Posters ever seen. In fact, it is surely the most valuable single collection ever sold as a lot in…
GIRL ON THE TRAIN Movie Review
When a successful bestseller like Girl on the Train inspires a movie, there will always the question of whether the script should accurately follow the novel or whether subtle or even major plot…
SULLY Clint Eastwood’s film unwittingly shows major flaws in Crew Emergency Procedures
I can only assume that Clint Eastwood made a thorough fact check of the ill fated US Airways Flight 1549 of Jan 15 2009. It is particularly important that he portrayed the events accurately…
Carry On Australian Daybill Movie Posters
Carry On Australian Daybill Movie Posters have become highly sought after in recent years. The Carry On series of British Comedy films commenced in the late 1950s with Carry On Sergeant and…
Aub Moseley one of our great Australian Movie Poster Artists
Australian Movie Posters have always had a charm and naïve quality that is unique to our country but it is unfortunate that information about the Australian movie poster artists has always been…
Daybill Cover art for Love on the Dole
Australian Daybill Cover art for Love on the Dole Love on the Dole is a gritty British film produced in 1941 and dealing with life in the Depression, unemployment, poverty, unwanted pregnancy and…
NOW LISTING: An amazing collection of Australian Long Daybill Movie Posters
Vintage Long Daybills I will be listing a collection of vintage Australian long daybill movie posters over the next month or so that will be one of the largest and most comprehensive presentations…
BARBARA EDEN Autographed Australian Daybills
Barbara Eden was in Australia recently and she signed a small selection of daybills for me including Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Harper Valley PTA. Barbara…
BARBARA EDEN Autographed Movie Posters
Barbara Eden was in Australia recently and she signed a small selection of daybills for me including Five Weeks in a Balloon, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Harper Valley PTA. Barbara…
NIGHT OF BLOODY HORROR Daybill – Original or Reissue?
The Australian daybill movie poster for Night of Bloody Horror is often referred to as oriignal but that is a little misleading. A number of horror films from the 1960s were either banned or not…
