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  • Front cover of the 2025 Vintage Film Noir Calendar by Asgard Press Read more Quick View

    2025 Vintage Film Noir Calendar

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    16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage film noir movie poster art

    Immerse yourself in moody Hollywood crime dramas each month with the Asgard Press 2025 Vintage Film Noir Calendar, a collection of faithfully reproduced vintage movie posters from the 1940’s and 1950’s.

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    2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar

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    16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage monster movie poster art + commentary

    Revisit the fearful fun of old horror films each month with this monstrous collection of faithfully reproduced vintage horror movie posters from the 1930s – 1970s.

  • Front cover of the 2025 Vintage Movie Posters Calendar by Asgard Press Read more Quick View

    2025 Vintage Movie Posters Calendar

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    16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage movie poster art

    Grab your popcorn and prepare to binge-watch old movies each month with this collection of faithfully reproduced vintage movie posters from the 1940’s – 1960’s.

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    2025 Vintage Musicals Calendar

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    16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage musical movie poster art + commentary

    Get ready to sing and dance with your favorite old musical films each month with this collection of faithfully reproduced vintage movie posters from the 1930s – 1960s.

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    Vintage Movie Posters 20″x28″ Rolled Gift Wrap Sheet

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    Bring the glamour of old Hollywood to your gift-giving and crafting with this unique rolled sheet of gift wrap featuring dozens of images of vintage movie poster artwork from the early to mid- 20th century, perfect for the film lover in your life.

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Interior page from the 2025 Vintage Film Noir Calendar by Asgard Press

Double Indemnity; 1944; Studio: Paramount Pictures; Director: Billy Wilder; Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson. Praised by numerous film journalists as one of the greatest movies of all time, Double Indemnity is considered a masterpiece of film noir with its dark, suspenseful plot, morally ambiguous protagonist, powerful female foil, and groundbreaking voiceover narration. In contrast to Detour, Double Indemnity was cast with two of the biggest Hollywood stars of the time, Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, and enjoyed a relatively large production budget. Like many films noir, Double Indemnity begins at the end, with insurance salesman Walter Neff dictating a confession memo to his boss, Barton Keyes. Using plot devices of flashback and voiceover, Neff tells the story of how an unexpected meeting with a client’s beautiful wife leads him down a path of deception and murder. Double Indemnity was based on a 1927 novel of the same name by James M. Cain, the father of American hardboiled crime fiction, who also wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice. Studios competed for the rights to Cain’s novel in the 1930s until the Hays Office deemed it unacceptable for audiences. Finally in 1943, Paramount bought the rights and toned down the screenplay, ultimately gaining Hays Code approval. Director Billy Wilder considered the film to be one of his finest and was pleased with the high praise given it by author Cain. Double Indemnity was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Barbara Stanwyck, who was uncertain about taking the part of a femme fatale because it was such a departure from her usual heroine roles. The obviously artificial wig she wore throughout the film was hated by studio executives but has since become iconic as a telling mark of her character, enriching the movie with symbolism. Though the film did not take home any Oscars, it was a huge box office hit and spawned a multitude of copycat pictures. Many of the film’s aesthetics became conventions of the genre, including its “venetian blind” lighting, first-person narration, and non-linear narrative, inspiring other directors and creating the blueprint for the films noir that followed.

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