From the Collection of Professor John E. Hawkinson, a local art teacher, this is one of three lots in our current November, 2018 auction featuring professionally mounted, linen-backed movie posters. Hawkinson was well-known on the collectible memorabilia show circuit as a specialist in restoration and linen-mounting of posters. These conservation backed pieces of cinema ephemera are more than just movie posters, they are historic cinematic treasures in a format convenient for dressing up your home theater, den, office locale or wherever you should choose to place them. An accepted preservation process, linen-backing is appreciated by advanced collectors in the know. During this process, the posters are mounted to linen, which can be reversed if desired, then cleaned and de-acidified, serving to preserve the colors of the poster and creating a vibrant piece of movie art that is suitable for long term display. While this professional process results in captivating display, it does not eliminate the original compacting folds that were created at time of issue, though these fold lines are fairly unobtrusive to display. To view the other two lots of this type, please see our Americana: Movies & TV category.

Nightmares are assured with this 1952-1972 original three-sheet film poster lot of (4) with selections from the always popular Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Each measures approximately 41x81 not including the excess linen borders. Featuring gruesome and menacing imagery, these vintage promoters make for incredible display. Avoid the time and considerable costs associated with the linen-backing process by capturing this reasonably offered group, with:

1952 “Zombies of the Stratosphere”, a classic ‘50s Sci-Fi poster fully representative of the genre with hurtling spaceships, menacing alien zombies and fearless Earthlings, from a Republic Pictures twelve-part serial film. On an interesting side note, longtime Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy played one of the zombies in one of his earliest roles.

1965 “Hysteria”, a Hammer Films classic thriller starring venerable actor Robert Webber, this gruesome poster portrays a demented and murderous scene from a flick that was intended to “shock you out of your seat."

1967 “The Vulture”, a fantastic revenge tale starring Broderick Crawford and Akim Tamiroff, about a monstrous beast-bird with a man’s face and his “talons of terror” seen at top left, that menace a terrified woman at bottom right, alas that we cannot see the face of this terrifying creature, we are going to search for this one.

1972 “Asylum” (aka "House of Crazies"), a true creepfest starring horror film veterans Peter Cushing and Herbert Lom, scripted by Robert Bloch as an adaptation of four of his short stories, graced with appropriately disturbing images, this colorful poster warns "Come to The Asylum... To Get Killed!”