Fri 21 Sep 2007 8:00PM - 9:00PM

Reynold Brown, who provided the artistic genius behind the B-movie posters of the 1950s and 60s that usually depicted monsters carrying away scantily clad ladies, is profiled in this revealing Sky Arts documentary. The films themselves were perhaps defined by the poster art (let’s face it, the cinematic content was not really up to scratch, was it?), and made Brown arguably the most famous poster artist of all time. The flashy and risqué depictions of the monsters in the posters reflected the nature of the social climate at the time.

The programme weaves clips from the multitude of frankly quite rubbish B-movies with images of the many, many posters produced by Brown to entice cinema goers to part with their hard earned to sit and endure drab features like Creature from the Black Lagoon and Attack of the 50ft Woman. The relative success of these films was due in no small part to Brown’s cunningly gaudy depiction of the characters and cheap monsters, but the reality was that the films never matched up to the poster, testament to the skill of Reynold Brown.

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