Walter Addison


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The Paper Chase - Movie Poster
The Paper Chase - Movie Poster
The Last Picture Show - Lobby Cards
Here are a few Lobby Cards from The Last Picture Show (1971). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

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Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Last Minute Doubts Cryptic conversation, deranged medium Myra (Kim Stanley) with husband Billy (Richard Attenborough, who also produced) involving their dead son and a barely revealed scheme to enhance their circumstances, early in director Bryan Forbes' Seance On A Wet Afternoon, 1964.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) She Was Just A Girl High schooler Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), pal Billy (Sam Bottoms) in tow, with mentor Sam "The Lion" (Ben Johnson), reconciled after a disagreement, fishing outside town, in 1951 Texas, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Is It Something Bad? Texas high school senior Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) brings his football coach's lonely wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman), whom he's just met, home after a visit to the doctor for an unspecified ailment, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Too Rough For Me Opening scenes, Sonny (Timothy Bottons) in sleepy Anarene, TX, 1951, picks up pal Billy (brother, Sam Bottoms) and visits Sam (Ben Johnson) at the pool hall, who comments on last night's football game, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Trashy Behavior Texas teen Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and pals are ashamed, bringing mute Billy (Sam Bottoms) back to town after buying a prostitute for him, called out by pool hall and theater owner Sam (Academy Award winner Ben Johnson), in The Last Picture Show, 1971, Peter Bogdanovich directing, from Larry McMurtry's novel.
Seance On A Wet Afternoon (1964) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Young Face Opening sequence, director Bryan Forbes presents medium Myra (Kim Stanley) at work, her husband Billy (Richard Attenborough, also the producer) not seen, camera by Gerry Turpin, on location in London's Wimbledon district, in Seance On A Wet Afternoon, 1964.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Beauty Is Truth In English class with teacher (John Hillerman) and Keats, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) then in practice with coach Popper (Bill Thurman) and after with pals Duane (Jeff Bridges) and Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), in 1951 rural Texas, early in The Last Picture Show, 1971, from Larry McMurtry's novel.
Eraserhead (1977) -- (Movie Clip) He's Got A Nosebleed After dining on the weird animated goo-oozing mini chickens, Henry (Jack Nance) in awkward moments with Bill (Allen Joseph), whose wife (Jean Bates) then demands a conference regarding his relations with daughter Mary (Charlotte Stewart), something like a story emerging, in director David Lynch’s Eraserhead, 1977.
Eraserhead (1977) -- (Movie Clip) I'm On Vacation Henry (Jack Nance) crosses further unpopulated urban nothingness and finds Mary (Charlotte Stewart), anxious over his arrival, and eventually introducing him to her mother (Jean Bates), who has an indiscernible attitude, early in writer-director David Lynch’s Eraserhead, 1977.
Deathtrap (1982) -- (Movie Clip) It's The Worst Play I've Ever Seen Director Sidney Lumet opens at the Music Box, where the original play by Ira Levin ran for years, Michael Caine as playwright Sidney, watching the opening of his latest flop, Dyan Cannon his daffy wife on the phone, Joe Silver his producer, in Deathtrap,1982, co-starring Christopher Reeve.
Deathtrap (1982) -- (Movie Clip) My Spiritual Child Desperate playwright Sidney (Michael Caine) picks up Clifford (Christopher Reeve), whom he's invited to discuss his own brilliant first play, his wife (Dyan Cannon) looking for signs he was kidding about killing the author and stealing his work, in Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Deathtrap, 1982.
Deathtrap (1982) -- (Movie Clip) My Heart Won't Take It All in good fun, washed-up playwright Sidney (Michael Caine), whom we fear might actually murder his former seminar student Clifford (Christopher Reeve) and steal his play, has tricked him into trying out some handcuffs, his wife (Dyan Cannon) close to panic, in Deathtrap, 1982.

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