Last night I watched a DVD of the Ronald Neame film, THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS
(1956). There is a scene in the film where two cars are en route to a
destination. In one of the shots, in the background, there is a billboard for
HITLER'S CHILDREN. I couldn't make out much of the art on the poster, but the
title
was clearly evident. These kinds of contextual juxtapositions are common in
movies today, but in this film that poster - it looks to be a British six sheet
- could just
as easily have been any 1942 film. Why HITLER'S CHILDREN? I can't help but
believe there was a kind of knowingness in that choice. For those of you who
have not
seen the movie, it concerns an effort to deceive the German military as to the
true location of Allied invasion of Europe.
What do you remember about movie posters in films? When are they just props
and when do they comment on something? Incidentally, the DVD from Netflix
was a quite respectable transfer of a CinemaScope picture. Not Blu-Ray, though.
Kirby McDaniel
MovieArt Original Film Posters
P.O. Box 4419
Austin TX 78765-4419
512 479 6680 www.movieart.com
mobile 512 589 5112
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