Looking now at the U.S. one sheet which is very similar, it also doesn't have a logo on it so that is probably if copied from it why the Australian one doesn't have one as well.
Stole the image from Matt's Guns of Navarone thread:
Are we sure this one is original release and not a re-release late 1960s?
As sure as anyone can be.
[1] No one has seen one before. [2] It came in a collection of 1SHs dated 1945 -1963.
In that case i'll have to agree that it's first release then. I just found the lack of the Columbia lady holding the torch a query to me. Looking again at the U.S. one sheet which is very similar, I notice it also doesn't have the logo on it so it would appear that when our poster was copied from the U.S. material it would possibly explain why the Australian one sheet doesn't have a logo as well.
I just wish to add that I still believe the daybill poster of The Guns Of Navarone with the Columbia lady with the torch on it is the original release 1962 poster. Note the one sheet above which appears to be first release has the For General Exhibition rating on it as well as daybill and has the same similar design as well.
The Guns of Navarone one sheet had a snipe over a Not Suitable for Children rating which was the original rating for the film until a scene was cut then the rating changing to For General Exhibition.
The Guns of Navarone one sheet had a snipe over a Not Suitable for Children rating which was the original rating for the film until a scene was cut then the rating changing to For General Exhibition.
When was the cut made? Do you know Matt ? If you do know please post.
Not sure, but I found a quote from Phil Edwards on NS4 when I posted about GoN 6 years ago about the topic.
GUNS OF NAVARONE was rated NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN originally, and was later trimmed to get a G for general release/re-release. There were several obvious cuts, primarily in the shoot-out on the boat in the first half of the film, a later torture scene, and a few snips of dialogue that implied Gia Scala had prostituted herself for the Nazis. If memory serves, the shootout was also trimmed for the first NSFC roadshow release in CBDs and later first run major suburbans.
Students of studio logos might like to chime in on the historical relevance, though it must be said that local branches here didn't/do always toe the line for such things.
Would anyone like to comment on when the daybill with the logo and '' For General Exhibition'' rating on it, that I am saying was from the first Australian release, was in their opinion released in Australia?
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Welcome to the Aussie paper discussion Charlie!
[1] No one has seen one before.
[2] It came in a collection of 1SHs dated 1945 -1963.
In that case i'll have to agree that it's first release then. I just found the lack of the Columbia lady holding the torch a query to me. Looking again at the U.S. one sheet which is very similar, I notice it also doesn't have the logo on it so it would appear that when our poster was copied from the U.S. material it would possibly explain why the Australian one sheet doesn't have a logo as well.
I just wish to add that I still believe the daybill poster of The Guns Of Navarone with the Columbia lady with the torch on it is the original release 1962 poster. Note the one sheet above which appears to be first release has the For General Exhibition rating on it as well as daybill and has the same similar design as well.
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
When was the cut made? Do you know Matt ? If you do know please post.
Not sure, but I found a quote from Phil Edwards on NS4 when I posted about GoN 6 years ago about the topic.
GUNS OF NAVARONE was rated NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN originally, and was later trimmed to get a G for general release/re-release.
There were several obvious cuts, primarily in the shoot-out on the boat in the first half of the film, a later torture scene, and a few snips of dialogue
that implied Gia Scala had prostituted herself for the Nazis. If memory serves, the shootout was also trimmed for the first NSFC roadshow release in CBDs and
later first run major suburbans.
Students of studio logos might like to chime in on the historical relevance, though it must be said that local branches here didn't/do always toe the line for such things.