Set of four magazine advertisements for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

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.1 Full-page, black and white magazine advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper, with a wide margin on the top and bottom, and a narrow margin on the left and right. Across the top and down the right side of the poster are a set of five square illustrations, each surrounded by a narrow border containing a caption. Each illustration features a different character overlaying a background scene. The characters include: a man wearing a captain’s hat, a woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder, a man holding up a submachine gun, a younger man looking up, and a man wearing a hat pulling the pin out of a grenade with his teeth. In the center-left of the poster is a canted rectangle containing the names of the three leading actors, printed in large black text. Beneath the rectangle is the film title in black brushed text, creating shadows in the front. To the right of the title are four figures: an armed kneeling man and woman, a standing man, and a man lying face-down beneath a large image of a sword entwined in a leafy vine. Above and below the scene, additional advertising copy is printed in small black text. At the bottom of the card is a night scene of people engaged in a gunfight in a camp. On the left, in front of an exploding barracks and a tower with a searchlight, are a group of fighters with a tank, and on the right are people emerging from a wire fence topped with razor wire. The film credits are printed in black along the bottom edge of the advertisement. The edges are slightly discolored, the page is unevenly cut along the right edge. Along the bottom edge are multiple, small, circular water stains. The reverse contains an unrelated, full-page advertisement. Depicted: Dana Andrews as Captain Mike Dillon, Märta Torén as Sabra, Stephen McNally as David Vogel, Jeff Chandler as Asvan Kurta, Liam Redmond as Jerry McCarthy .2 Full-page, black and white magazine advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper, with a wide margin on the top and bottom, and a narrow margin on the left and right. Across the top and down the right side of the poster are a set of five square illustrations, each surrounded by a narrow border containing a caption. Each illustration features a different character overlaying a background scene. The characters include: a man wearing a captain’s hat, a woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder, a man holding up a submachine gun, a younger man looking up, and a man wearing a hat pulling the pin out of a grenade with his teeth. In the center-left of the poster is a canted rectangle containing the names of the three leading actors, printed in large black text. Beneath the rectangle is the film title in black brushed text, creating shadows in the front. To the right of the title are four figures: an armed kneeling man and woman, a standing man, and a man lying face-down beneath a large image of a sword entwined in a leafy vine. Above and below the scene, additional advertising copy is printed in small black text. At the bottom of the card is a night scene of people engaged in a gunfight in a camp. On the left, in front of an exploding barracks and a tower with a searchlight, are a group of fighters with a tank, and on the right are people emerging from a wire fence topped with razor wire. The film credits are printed in black along the bottom edge of the advertisement. The page is unevenly cut along the top and right edges. The reverse contains an unrelated, full-page advertisement and is stained with pink ink transfer from another image. Depicted: Dana Andrews as Captain Mike Dillon, Märta Torén as Sabra, Stephen McNally as David Vogel, Jeff Chandler as Asvan Kurta, Liam Redmond as Jerry McCarthy .3 Full-page, black and white magazine advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper, with a wide margin on the top and bottom, and a narrow margin on the left and right. Across the top and down the right side of the poster are a set of five square illustrations, each surrounded by a narrow border containing a caption. Each illustration features a different character overlaying a background scene. The characters include: a man wearing a captain’s hat, a woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder, a man holding up a submachine gun, a younger man looking up, and a man wearing a hat pulling the pin out of a grenade with his teeth. In the center-left of the poster is a canted rectangle containing the names of the three leading actors, printed in large black text. Beneath the rectangle is the film title in black brushed text, creating shadows in the front. To the right of the title are four figures: an armed kneeling man and woman, a standing man, and a man lying face-down beneath a large image of a sword entwined in a leafy vine. AAbove and below the scene, additional advertising copy is printed in small black text. At the bottom of the card is a night scene of people engaged in a gunfight in a camp. On the left, in front of an exploding barracks and a tower with a searchlight, are a group of fighters with a tank, and on the right are people emerging from a wire fence topped with razor wire. The film credits are printed in black along the bottom edge of the advertisement. The edges are slightly discolored, and the page is torn along the right edge. The reverse contains an unrelated, full-page advertisement with a water stain along the top edge. Depicted: Dana Andrews as Captain Mike Dillon, Märta Torén as Sabra, Stephen McNally as David Vogel, Jeff Chandler as Asvan Kurta, Liam Redmond as Jerry McCarthy .4 Full-page, black and white magazine advertisement printed on a sheet of rectangular, off-white paper, with a wide margin on the top and bottom, and a narrow margin on the left and right. Across the top and down the right side of the poster are a set of five square illustrations, each surrounded by a narrow border containing a caption. Each illustration features a different character overlaying a background scene. The characters include: a man wearing a captain’s hat, a woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder, a man holding up a submachine gun, a younger man looking up, and a man wearing a hat pulling the pin out of a grenade with his teeth. In the center-left of the poster is a canted rectangle containing the names of the three leading actors, printed in large black text. Beneath the rectangle is the film title in black brushed text, creating shadows in the front. To the right of the title are four figures: an armed kneeling man and woman, a standing man, and a man lying face-down beneath a large image of a sword entwined in a leafy vine. Above and below the scene, additional advertising copy is printed in small black text. At the bottom of the card is a night scene of people engaged in a gunfight in a camp. On the left, in front of an exploding barracks and a tower with a searchlight, are a group of fighters with a tank, and on the right are people emerging from a wire fence topped with razor wire. The film credits are printed in black along the bottom edge of the advertisement. The edges are slightly discolored, and the page is unevenly cut along the right edge. The back of the sheet contains an unrelated, full-page advertisement. Depicted: Dana Andrews as Captain Mike Dillon, Märta Torén as Sabra, Stephen McNally as David Vogel, Jeff Chandler as Asvan Kurta, Liam Redmond as Jerry McCarthy