Original Baker, Roy Movie Posters

Roy Baker movie posters span a distinguished British career from atmospheric 1940s thrillers through Hammer horror — the British director whose work produced some of the most stylish and atmospheric genre films of the 1940s through 1970s, working across thriller, horror, and historical drama with the craft and efficiency that defined quality British studio filmmaking.

Baker's early career produced films of genuine distinction. The October Man (1947), with John Mills, is an exemplary British psychological thriller. Morning Departure (1950), a submarine drama also with Mills, handled its claustrophobic material with quiet authority. Don't Bother to Knock (1952) — Marilyn Monroe's first dramatic role as a disturbed babysitter — gave the American star's range its first serious test and generated theatrical materials of considerable rarity and interest.

A Night to Remember (1958), his reconstruction of the Titanic disaster made before Titanic was even a twinkle in James Cameron's eye, is arguably the most historically rigorous and dramatically effective film about the sinking ever made. Rank's theatrical campaign is among the most striking British maritime disaster one-sheets of the decade. Later work with Hammer Films — Quatermass and the Pit (1967), The Vampire Lovers (1970) — extended his genre range into horror.

Find original theatrical prints from this dependable British genre filmmaker — from his atmospheric 1940s thrillers through the Hammer horror productions of the 1970s.

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