Posters & Stills

Take a look at our gallery of original posters and studio stills from The Big Combo (1955). This promotional artwork is a masterclass in post-war Hollywood marketing. See how cinematographer John Alton pulled off the impossible. Using radical single spotlights and deep shadows, he turned cheap studio soundstages into a dark, paranoid world of pure … Read more

Welcome to our archival visual gallery for this late-era crime masterpiece. The promotional artwork and promotional photography produced for this motion picture remain landmark achievements in Hollywood’s post-war marketing. Cinematographer John Alton utilized revolutionary low-key lighting and radical single-source spotlights on set, transforming cheap studio soundstages into a gritty, paranoid expressionistic landscape.