Paul C. Dobbs

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Living on Sydney Greenstreet Haunted by Ida Lupino Immigrant Trap drummer

Poster for The Long, Hot Summer (1958). Couples in romantic clinches. Tagline reads: The people of Faulkner.. the language of Faulkner.. the world of Faulkner!
Fab Fuzz guitar effects pedal
Poster for Some Came Running. A full-length Frank Sinatra, hands in pockets, suitcase at his feet
Poster for No Down Payment. A young blonde woman lying on a bed looks down lovingly at a bare-chested man lying on the floor
Virginia Leith as a disembodied head in a lab
A can of beer on a table outside a Korean convenience store, or pyeonyjeom, on a hit sunny day
Poster for Written on the Wind. A man and a woman embacing tenderly
The magnificent profile of Chester Morris
Poster for Bigger Than Life (1956). James Mason looks tortured, his image splintering like a cracked mirror. Tagline reads: The story of the handful of hope that became a fistful of hell!
Poster for Hope (2026)
Yul Brynner on Parkinson wearing his watch over the cuff of his shirt
Poster for A Kiss Before Dying. A man holds a woman on the floor. His expression is gentle, but she looks wide-eyed, like she might be dead
The architect Stanford White. A fierce-looking Edwardian man with short bristling hair and a fucking terrifying 12" wide moustache that looks like it wants feeding
Poster for The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. A woman sitting on the floor, skimpily dressed, looking both seductive and anguished
Poster for Queen Bee. A woman, reclining so far she's upside down, is kissed on the cheek by a man.
Poster for Niagara. Marilyn Monroe reclines seductively. Elsewhere she is being grabbed by Joseph Cotten. Tagline reads: Marilyn Monroe and Niagara. A raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!
"KILROY WAS HERE" written on the inside wall of a telephone booth
Poster for Desert Fury. Burt Lancaster about to punch John Hodiak while Lizabeth Scott looks on.
A girl, about five, wearing a paper party hat
Poster for Outcast of the Islands. An Indonesian woman stands looking proud while a white man clings pathetically to her waist
Poster for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
A pint of beer and napkins with Finnish writing on. Behind them is a window looking out onto a parked up Finnair plane
A beautiful woman and a handsome man sitting and puffing out smoke at right angles to each other. The air in front of their faces is full of smoke, making photogenic patterns. Gene Tierney and Vincent Price in a frame form Laura (1944)
A long shot down a hotel corridor. Spooky silhouette figures down at the end of it
6 old men in an alehouse looking pissed and happy
A big art deco lounge
A bottle of Morrisons orange squash
First page of the story: 1 Inimitable Rex On my last day in motion pictures I found myself at the top of a monkey-puzzle tree in England, helping to settle a wager between the marvellous light comedian and wit Rex Harrison and his wife, the actress Rachel Roberts, and thinking. This is gonna look great in the obituaries, isn't it. Fell out of a fucking tree.
Hardback copy of Me Cheeta, the Autobiography
Poster for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Close-ups of Taylor and Burton
A three piece rock band playing in a bar
Poster for Disclosure Day (2026). A disembodied eye floats in space. Tagline reads: WE DESERVE TO KNOW
A lovely woman in wild west costume with unfeasibly voluminous hair, artfully disarrayed by skilled stylists
Title card of El Dorsdo on my telly
Poster for Assassin (1969). Faces of the characters and all writing in either Hanja or Hangeul, no English
Poster for Green for Danger (1946). Alastair Sim mugs comically. Elsewhere, a young woman lies face down, apparently unconscious or dead
Poster for Trouble in Paradise. Herbert Marshall and Kay Francis in a romantic clinch. A close-up of Miriam Hopkins seems to look on disapprovingly
Poster for These Three. The three lead characters are shown in the foreground, with a bunch of judgemental gossipy-looking people behind them. Tagline reads: Were they THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF A WHISPERING CAMPAIGN?
Poster for Obsession. Faces of the three leads surround a door leading into a mysterious passageway. Tagline reads: WHOSE Eye COULD SEE... WHOSE Ear COULD HEAR... WHOSE Mind COULD KNOW... the Secret!
Poster for 52 Pick-Up. Roy Scheider holds a gun ready like he's 007. Ann-Margret right under his chin looks cool and glamorous
Leo McKern looking anguished and sweaty. There's a full-length portrait of him hanging on the wall in the background, but he is portrayed as comically bulky and out of proportion, more of a cartoon than a portrait
Poster for Time Without Pity. A man grabs a frightened young woman by the chin. Another picture shows a woman on the floor looking up in alarm. Another picture shows a man with a pistol. Tagline reads: IT started with a young girl's scream...
Poster for The Bofors Gun. The faces of four main characters are ranged above a picture of an anti-aircraft gun. Tagline reads: GUNNER O'ROURKE WAS SICK OF BEING PUSHED AROUND... SO HE PUSHED BACK
Longshot of a gas station forecourt, a woman standing in the middle of it, a logging truck heading up the highway toward forests. Final shot of Five Easy Pieces
Poster for Vera Cruz. Profile close-ups of Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster looking tough. Tagline reads: THE GIANTS BATTLE IN THE BIGGEST SPECTACLE OF THEM ALL!
Looking down on a 30-piece orchestra playing on a badminton court, a crowd of people looking on
Poster for The Most Dangerous Game. A moustached man in close up has wide, sinister, staring eyes. Above him are ranged decomposing men's heads. Below, a young man and woman look up in alarm. Tagline reads: THE FINEST SPECIMENS I EVER KILLED
Trying to insert something on a Google slide. Google AI pops up a message "Help me visualize"
A man leaps off a lunch counter onto another man
Poster for Seance on a Wet Afternoon. A woman is apparently in a trance with a candle burning in front of her face.
A dark haired, handsome man, in a high 18th century collar, manages to look intense and debonair at the same time while looking right into camera
Poster for The Lost Moment. A man and women are face to face and look about to kiss. There's an old dark house in the background, and an inset picture of a very old woman in a chair
Rupert Everett as the Prince of Wales talking to Whig politicians
Poster for The Molly Maguires. 19th century policemen level rifles at a crowd of men. In a sort of trompe l'oeil effect, the middle of the poster is having a hole punched through it by an emerging coal-blackened fist
A still from the clip from The Apartment showing a man in a newsboy cap, flight jacket and bow tie
Baker's boy from the Ridley Scott Hovis ad, pushing his bike up a cobbled hill
A section of a slide from a Google Slides presentation. Underneath is an invitation to "Beautify this slide"
In this exceptional moment, some of cinema's old props were kicked away, including Hollywood's genre formulae, the three-act narrative structure, the privileging of psychology, the insistence on happy and 'closed' endings.
Poster for L'avventura. A couple in a hot clinch
Ena Sharples looking sour in black and white