KerrisdaleGallery.com – Stock ID#MPLCx1PLY62ph – “Playgirl After Dark” (1962, Topaz, filmed in UK, poster for USA, NSS#62/279)- Original Vintage Movie Poster Lobby Card, single Number 3 – full view – Neo-noir thriller starring Jayne Mansfield. Directed by Terence Young.

KerrisdaleGallery.com – Stock ID#MPLCx1PLY62ph – “Playgirl After Dark” (1962, Topaz, filmed in UK, poster for USA, NSS#62/279) – Original Vintage Movie Poster Lobby Card, single Number 3 – view of reverse side to show condition – Neo-noir thriller starring Jayne Mansfield. Directed by Terence Young.

Movie Poster 11x14 Lobby Card #3

PLAYGIRL AFTER DARK

• 1962
• Topaz Film Corporation
• U.S.A.
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Noir
• Director: Terence Young
• Cast:

  Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Carl Boehm

Original Vintage Movie Poster Lobby Card: "Playgirl After Dark" (1962, Topaz, 11 x 14 inches) USA, Single numbered 3, National Screen Service/NSS# 62/279

About:

This is a thriller in neo-noir style filmed in England about a French journalist who is working on a steamy story about the secret strip clubs in London's Soho district and becomes involved in the lives of a club owner and the star dancer. Released December 1960 in the UK as "Too Hot to Handle" then edited and released 16 January 1961 in the USA as "Playgirl After Dark".

Condition:

Very Fine - with bright colours and clean overall appearance, no pinholes, general evidence of handling, light creasing in margins, light toning, light edgwear and light marks

Text and Credits as stated in poster image:

Single Lobby Card depicts a Nightclub Scene which has Jayne Mansfield's scantily-clad character performing with two back-up musicians wearing tropical straw hats.
TAGLINE, upper left: It strips the secrets from the intimate key clubs!
TEXT/CREDITS below still image: Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Carl Boehm "Playgirl After Dark" Co-Starring Christopher Lee, Kai Fischer in Eastman Color Produced by Phil C. Samuel, Directed by Terence Young A Topaz Film Corporation Release / Numbered: 3

As printed in bottom margin, including copyright:

BOTTOM MARGIN, UNDER IMAGE: ©1962 Topaz Film Corporation All Rights Reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Property of National Screen Service Corp. Licensed for display only in connection with the exhibition of this picture at your theatre. Must be returned immediately thereafter. 62/279

Gallery Notes:

These original vintage movie poster One-Sheets and Lobby Cards are offered for sale to the public for the first time as posted to this website, KerrisdaleGallery.com. They have been stored away for almost forty years, having been purchased from a travelling salesman who visited our retail store in the early 1980’s. The salesman explained that his acquaintances purchased a building in Los Angeles and found a stash of vintage movie posters which had been stored at some point in time, and forgotten. To sell the movie posters, the salesman filled his van and made a road trip up the West Coast and across the border into Canada. So we bought his story and the last of his inventory.

• The movie posters are being sold “as is” with the Condition described honestly and in detail.
• Movie Poster One Sheets have been folded and will ship flat in the same folded manner as they have been stored.
• One Sheets may benefit from restoration, which involves first mounting the poster to acid-free paper then mounting it onto a linen backing. Reputable companies providing restoration service may be researched and located online.
• Please know that vintage movie posters were printed as inexpensive advertising and were not intended to be preserved into the future as cherished works of art reflecting a specific time, which is what they have become. As such, most of them were handled or stored with indifference and have been lost or destroyed. Surviving authentic vintage movie posters could have their pinholes, stains and handling marks be considered their “beauty marks”, as this is evidence of their rich history of being printed, distributed and exhibited to be gazed upon by unknown numbers of movie-goers of a previous generation.