Yes, it's a bit 'dog-eared'!!! That's what happens when you move a poster around with you for 35 years or so!!! Here's the thing though..... COOL as the poster is (it just SCREAMS: 'crime drama' / 'film noir', doesn't it???)---- something's ALWAYS seemed a little 'off' about it!!!
Look close at the image of Bogie in the poster. If your'e familiar with a number of his movies (like, shameless GEEK-A-ZOID little 'ol Loydster is, for example!!)--- you can see that this particular image of Mr. Bogart, is in fact from the movie 'High Sierra'!!! The close-cropped hair-cut (which he sported in that movie!) gives it away!!
So.... recently having decided to move / change-out some posters in the area leading up to my 'hide-out' / 'secret sanctum', I went on a bit of a quest. Just to see if I could maybe dig up a 'more accurate' version of a poster for this, one of my ALL-TIME favorite 'Bogie-flicks'!!! 'The Maltese Falcon' NEEDED to be on display out in the stairwell--- in the COOLEST version possible!!
MAN-OH-MAN!! Did I discover a whole OTHER set of really odd-ball posters for this film!! While scanning through Amazon alone, I found 4 DIFFERENT versions!! ALL of which, used images of Bogie---- from EARLIER movies!!! (weird!!!!) Including one using an image from his 'break-through' film 'The Petrified forest'--- made nearly TEN years before 'The Maltese Falcon'!!! (Again---weird!!!)
At ANY rate, here's the one that really jumped out and grabbed me!! Once AGAIN, it's apparent--- the image of Bogie is obviously from an earlier flick. He looks a little on the younger side, than the way he ACTUALLY looks in the film!! But, still--- THIS one SCREAMS 'crime drama' even LOUDER than my previous poster!!!---
The only thing I can figure happened here (outside of the fact that multiple versions of posters for this movie were done, that was pretty common back then!!), was that Mr. Bogart was still on his way to becoming a regular 'lead' actor at the time '...Falcon' was made / released. Not a lot of 'up-to-date' publicity stills / images of his mug may have been available at the time.... so the studio art department worked with what they had.
I guess looking at it in that light, some of those odd-ball posters are pretty cool after all!!! (jump over to Amazon and scan through some of them, to see what I mean!!)
AND--- here's the framed article, proudly hanging up in the stairwell--- just as it SHOULD be!!!
------'See you NEXT time, gang!!!!'------
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