Pillars Of The Sky is a good Universal-International picture starring Jeff Chandler and Dorothy Malone. Watched it over the weekend. Like so many U-I Westerns, it really deserves the widescreen DVD treatment. Notice it says “Print by Technicolor,” not “Color by Technicolor.”
Pillars was written by Sam Rolfe, who co-wrote The Naked Spur (1953) and a bunch of TV, ranging from The Man From UNCLE to Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ward Bond and Lee Marvin have very good roles. And it was directed by George Marshall — who did both You Can’t Cheat An Honest Man and Destry Rides Again in 1939. (He also did the Audie Murphy remake Destry.)
But what I’m celebrating here today is the picture’s incredible poster art by Reynold Brown. Up top, the half sheet. Below, a couple details from a different layout. (Click on them and they get large enough to really study.)
Beautiful poster indeed.
I don’t know how you viewed the movie Toby, but there’s a very fine DVD of this available from Germany in anamorphic scope. Search Amazon.de for “Dem Tode Entronnen”
Thanks for the tip on the DVD. I knew it was out there, but hadn’t heard anything about the quality.
Turns out there are quite a few Fifties Westerns available as import DVDs. Shame the dollar is on the skids!
You can also get a letterboxed copy at http://www.ioffer.com