My two cents...I don't think it's a Richardson Studio poster...the art style is wrong, and I've never seen one for a non Paramount film...the rating circle would be typical for that period time I would think...but I'm no expert, so what do I know really. I'll shut up now
Bad men and cowboys, a mine and collie dog, are the principal ingredients of this hard-riding, bullet riddled Western, done in some of its quieter moments to a guitar and one or two sentimental ditties on horseback, Outside the boundaries of a deserted mining town the bad men lie in wait behind boulders for the stragglers of a gold-rush that they themselves started by falsely giving out that there is gold in the surrounding hills. For a time these bandits prosper, but as soon as Jack Luden, the singing cowboy, rides nonchalantly into the picture, the diggings become an extremely unhealthy place for the hold-up men. The unexpected discovery of gold in an abandoned mine used by the highwaymen as a hide-out, and a successful race to the sheriff by Mr. Luden with his claim, speedily bring matters to a head. With some particularly smart rescue work by Tuffy, the collie dog, the picture ends with the bad men buried beneath the debris from their own dynamite.
I would like to know too. The moment I looked at it i thought it looked like a comic cover.
There's another thread possibility. Why were some dogs like ''Tuffy'' the wonder dog billed on film posters and others weren't. For those thinking ''what tha '' I m only kidding.
Hero For A Day (1939) - released Australia March 1940
In the Windsor and Richmond (out my way) Gazette 19 April 1940
"Dick Foran, former stadium star at Princeton University, belongs to that exclusive group of college athletes who have won a place for themselves on the screen. Six feet three inches in height and tipping the scales at 190 pounds, Foran plays a familiar game as the campus hero in 'Hero for a Day,' Universal film, coming on Anzac Day (night only); to the Royal Theatre with Anita Louise, Charley Grapewin, Berton Churchhill, Emma Dunn, David Holt and Richard Lane."
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Why do people trim posters. I detest it. Most likely W.E.Smith but we need to see another copy to confirm.
Hondo
To me it looks typical 20th Century Fox / W.E.Smith artwork to me but I could be wrong.
Hondo
Keep talking Ves if you like as what you said is spot on.
Hondo
well good to see my wild (and incorrect) guess generates some good discussion..I've learnt some new things
A.& C. didn't print film posters at all in the 1940s.
Hondo
To my knowledge 20th Century Fox didn't produce any narrow format daybills at all.
Hondo
I would like to know too. The moment I looked at it i thought it looked like a comic cover.
There's another thread possibility. Why were some dogs like ''Tuffy'' the wonder dog billed on film posters and others weren't. For those thinking ''what tha '' I m only kidding.
Hondo
There was also Boots, Kazan and the list goes on and on but let us mention and never forget the greatest wonder dog of them all.
Hondo
Dick Foran was a singing cowboy in the 1930's at Warner Brothers who could actually sing.
Hondo
I dunno, but it is loverly.