207-208 The Criminal Code & Twentieth Century

[MikeFH]

Indicator has the most consistently strong covers of any company at the moment.

These are great, but Light Sleeper's cover sucks imo.

Agreed. The Light Sleeper cover will improve a lot when they remove the two smaller color photos.

[Gerald Christie]

MichaelB, where is the Twentieth Century art from? It's beautiful and a lovely cover. I happen to have framed in my house two posters from the film and I've never seen this particular image before. Is it just a still from the film?

[antnield]

The image of Lombard in that dress was used in various posters at the time - sometimes, but not always in the very same pose - but this exact image, including colouring and background, is from an original lobby card. You'll be able to see the source (and those various posters) in the disc's image gallery.

[Rayon Vert]

It's not that lobby card but here's an image probably from the same shoot with a similar pose, hair of course, but also dress details and the drapes behind.

[whaleallright]

I haven't seen Twentieth Century in nearly 20 years (and then on a so-so 16mm print IIRC), but I remember finding it almost literally breathtaking—in that it was so manic I had to catch my breath numerous times. I remember my friend theatrically exhaling and miming wiping sweat from his brow at the end.

It's almost like Hawks went balls-to-the-wall with the rapid-fire overlapping dialogue in this film and then dialed it back/modulated it (slightly) for his subsequent comedies.

[MikeFH]

Guess this is the cover photo: