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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 4h

BTD: Jack Finney. The Many Covers of (Invasion of) The Body Snatchers, 1955.

montage of book covers for The Body Snatchers

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 7h

George "Spanky" McFarland (October 2, 1928 - June 30, 1993).

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 7h

The Bridge on the River Kwai. UK premiere this day in 1957. Directed by David Lean. Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Geoffrey Horne, and André Morell. Italian poster. Art by Angelo Cesselon.

portraits of three haggard soldiers: William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 10h

BTD: Good ol’ Charlie Brown. Debuted this day in 1950. Written and drawn by Charles Schulz.

A very young boy and girl are sitting on the front steps and observe Charlie Brown approaching: "Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!" "Good ol' Charlie Brown... Yes, sir!" "Good ol' Charlie Brown..." "...How I hate him!"

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 11h

The Twilight Zone. Premiered this day in 1959 with "Where is Everybody", written by Rod Serling, directed by Robert Stevens, and starring Earl Holliman.

a distraught Earl Holliman finds a mannequin in the passenger seat of a deserted car

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 12h

BTD: Bud Abbott. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy,1955. Directed by Charles Lamont. Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Peggy King, Richard Deacon, and Mel Welles. Italian poster.

Abbott and Costello hang on for a camel ride with a lovely lady in a pith helmet at the helm

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 13h

BTD: Groucho Marx. Horse Feathers, 1932. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, Thelma Todd, and David Landau. Scene card.

Surrounded by stuffy academics, Groucho hops on a table to sing "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It."

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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nice movie poster for #QueenBee ~ Une Femme Diabolique (both are appropriate titles) #CreepyCinema #TCMParty

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It must be seen to be disbelieved: The Brain from Planet Arous, released this day in 1957. Directed by Nathan H. Juran (as "Nathan Hertz"). Starring John Agar, Joyce Meadows, and Robert Fuller.

John Agar projects yellow beams from his eyes, his co-stars seem alarmed.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BTD: Stella Stevens. The Nutty Professor, 1963. Directed by Jerry Lewis. Starring Stevens, Lewis, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Howard Morris, and Elvia Allman. Spanish poster.

Jerry Lewis stares at Stella Stevens from behind his chemistry equipment

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BTD: Walter Matthau. The Bad News Bears, 1976. Directed by Michael Ritchie. Starring Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Jackie Earle Haley, and Alfred W. Lutter. Art by Jack Davis.

Walter Matthau surrounded by Tatum O'Neal and the rest of the Bad News Bears

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BTD: Lewis Milestone. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930. Directed by Milestone. Starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, and John Wray. Swedish poster.

portrait of a beleaguered soldier in a helmet

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Trouble with Harry. Premiered—appropriately—in Vermont this day in 1955. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Edmund Gwenn, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, and Jerry Mathers. French poster. Art by Boris Grinsson.

Hitchcock pokes his head through the poster to watch Jerry Mathers, Shirley MacLaine, Mildred Natwick, and Edmund Gwenn contemplating Harry's corpse.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BTD: Deborah Kerr. The Innocents, 1961. Directed by Jack Clayton. Starring Kerr, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, and Michael Redgrave. Italian poster. Art by Arnaldo Putzu.

Deborah Kerr clutches at a child's doll, the ghost of Quint looms in the background

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BTD: Director Michael Powell. The Thief of Bagdad, 1940. Directed by Powell (with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan). Starring Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, and Rex Ingram. Japanese poster.

a montage of scenes from The Thief of Bagdad including a flying genie, a winged horse, and a flying carpet.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BTD: Anita Ekberg. Screaming Mimi, 1958. Directed by Gerd Oswald. Starring Ekberg, Philip Carey, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Harry Townes. Italian poster. Art by Anselmo Ballester.

Anita Ekberg cowers as a dog tries to protect her from a man with a knife

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BTD: The magnificent Madeline Kahn (seen here with an admirer).

Madeline Kahn in head wrap and fox fur, Marty Feldman is peeking over her shoulder

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I liken this movie to Tom Sawyer getting to enjoy his own funeral.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orpheus. Released on this day in 1950. Directed by Jean Cocteau. Starring Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, and Marie Déa. French poster. Art/Montage by J. Harold.

an artful photo montage of Maria Casares, Francois Perier, and Jean Marais surrounding a broken stone staircase

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Star is Born. L.A. premiere this day in 1954. Directed by George Cukor. Starring Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, and Charles Bickford. Italian poster. Art by Luigi Martinati.

A portrait of a haggard James Mason, nearby Judy Garland sits on a star

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BTD: Michelangelo Antonioni. Il Grido,1957. Directed by Antonioni. Starring Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray, Gabriella Pallotta and Betsy Blair. Italian poster. Art by Sandro Symeoni.

A full length paint of Steve Cochran wandering the docks, on the right are portraits of Alida Valli, Dorian Gray, Betsy Blair, and Gabriella pallotta

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mildred Pierce. NYC premiere this day in 1945. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, and Bruce Bennett. French poster. Art by Roger Jacquier dit Rojac.

a portrait of Joan Crawford with a transparent turquoise bar over her eyes, nearby a woman emerges from behind a curtain carrying a gun

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BTD: Peter Finch. Kidnapped, 1960. Directed by Robert Stevenson. Starring Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, Niall MacGinnis, Finlay Currie, and Peter O'Toole.

Peter Finch and James MacArthur do battle with swords and pistols

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dracula A.D. 1972. Premiered in the UK this day in... 1972. Directed by Alan Gibson. Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Stephanie Beacham. Japanese poster.

An extremely pale and frantic Christopher Lee bares his fangs, nearby are images of Stephanie Beacham.

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the girl. ☎️ Happy birthday to the brilliant Naomi Watts! ❤️

A blonde woman holding a black corded telephone receiver to her ear and mouth, looking to the left with a concerned expression, against a dark background. She has short, highlighted hair, is wearing red lipstick, a dark-red top with thin straps.

Still from Mulholland Drive.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BTD: Marcello Mastroianni. Le Notti Bianche, 1960. Directed by Luchino Visconti. Starring Mastroianni, Maria Schell, and Jean Marais. Italian poster. Art by Ercole Brini.

Mastroianni consoles Maria Schell outside a villa

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026

‘Why 𝘯𝘰𝘵 work simultaneously on screenplays about James Bond and Jesus Christ? He was an omnivorous polymath to the end, relentlessly curious, a true freelance mind.’ Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess, published online early from our next issue. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south

For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

John Atkinson Grimshaw’s ‘St. Paul’s Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London, England’ (1885)

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 27/09/2026

sorry i really hate asking but if anybody needs promo art, concept art, books or album covers, anything, please consider hiring me

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A typically enjoyable newsletter from @bcdreyer.social just arrived that highlights an illustrator I’d never heard of, Harry Rountree. Rountree's paintings for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland live somewhere between Rackham and N.C. Wyeth. My Sunday is now brighter and definitely more colorful.

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The first iteration of “The Tonight Show,” hosted by Steve Allen, premiered on NBC on September 27, 1954.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BTD: Claude Jarman Jr. The Yearling, 1959. Starring Jarman Jr., Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Chill Wills, Margaret Wycherly, and Forrest Tucker. Italian poster. Art by Mario Piovano.

Claude Jarman Jr. and a fawn in the middle of a forest

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Crimson Pirate. Released this day in 1952. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Leslie Bradley, Torin Thatcher and James Hayter. Italian poster. Art by Luigi Martinati.

brandishing a pirate flag, Burt Lancaster swings on a rope

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Cool Ghoul" John Zacherle - BOTD in 1918

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BTD: George Raft. Bolero, 1934. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Starring Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Ray Milland, and William Frawley. Swedish poster. Art by Moje Aslund.

George Raft and Carole Lombard strike a dance pose

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Republican Automatons / Republikanische Automaten, by George Grosz, 1920.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy birthday to Martine Beswick. Prehistoric Women, 1967. Directed by Michael Carreras. Starring Beswick, Michael Latimer, and Carol White. Prototype art by Tom Chantrell.

Martine Beswick rides an enormous white rhino over a crowd of unhappy natives

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Carnival of Souls. Premiered in its hometown of Lawrence, Kansas this day in 1962. Directed by Herk Harvey. Starring Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger, and Harvey. Japanese poster.

Candace Hilligoss screams, and rightly so. In the background she is chased by zombies and nearby is director Herk Harvey playing Ghoul No. 1

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BTD: Winsor McCay. Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914. Directed by McCay. Starring Gertie.

Gertie the Dinosaur strolls through the big city with an automobile perched on her head

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 25/09/2026

A drawing by Fellini after meeting Charles Schulz, featuring Snoopy hamming it up, Fellini behind the camera, and Schulz laughing. Exhibited at the Schulz Museum in the exhibition "Spark of Schulz" in 2022.

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BTD: Robert Bresson. A Man Escaped, 1956. Directed by Bresson. Starring François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, and Roland Monod. French poster.

the silhouette of a running man casts a long shadow on a wall

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Mummy. UK premiere this day in 1959. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Yvonne Furneaux. Italian poster.

a mummy is at the center of a fiery assault

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Hustler. Premiered this day in 1961. Directed by Robert Rossen. Starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, and Myron McCormick. Italian poster. Artwork by Ercole Brini.

Paul Newman grabs his winnings from the pool table, Piper Laurie smokes and seems unhappy

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BTD: Robert Bresson. Pickpocket, 1959. Directed by Bresson. Starring Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, and Jean Pelegri. Polish poster. Art by Maciej Hibner.

a man on a subway has his pocket picked by a man standing behind him

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy birthday to Mark Hamill. The Empire Strikes Back, 1980. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, and Kenny Baker. Japanese promotional art by Noriyoshi Ohra.

epic montage in red and blue of scenes from The Empire Strikes Back

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