the 25 Best Movie Posters Ever

If watching a film is like having a dream wide awake, then movie posters are invitations to those dreams — a lot of weight for one image to carry. Premiere Magazine has selected some of the best examples of this art-meets-commerce form — some profound, some silly.

A great movie poster is a hard thing to find. Most posters are cut and paste jobs that don't sell the movie very well at all. A great poster should intrigue, shock, inspire & excite. It should be aesthetically beautiful or original. Above all, it should be so memorable that a single glance will be instantly recognizable.


Here is their list, of which we will publish one poster every week:

25. Gun Crazy (1949)
24. All About Eve (1950)
23. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
22. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
21. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
20. Yellow Submarine (1968)
19. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
18. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
17. This Gun for Hire (1942)
16. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
15. The Mummy (1932)
14. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
13. The Gold Rush (1925)
12. Straw Dogs (1971)
11. King Kong (1933)
10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
8. Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958)
7. 42nd Street (1933)
6. Gilda (1946)
5. Forbidden Planet (1956)
4. Downhill Racer (1969)
3. Vertigo (1958)
2. The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
1. Anatomy of Murder (1959)