Jon Whiteley

[Elaine]

Some amazon uk market place sellers seem to be of the opinion that somewhere out there among the millions of amazon customers, there must be at least one idiot who'd be daft enough to pay £100 all but a penny (plus ordinary second class unrecorded postage to boot) for an old video tape that probably cost the seller pennies to buy.

I know what you mean. I was looking for a couple of films. One was going for $129.99 on Amazon the other £50.00 on the same. Just for[ as you said] vhs tapes. I was tempted for a couple of nano seconds, then sense returned. What is so ironic, a little later I got both for less that £15.00 on dvd.

[Elaine]

BELOW: Just arrived from an eBay seller in Ohio, USA, this vintage 1955 American Front-of-House still from Moonfleet. Two more vintage colour stills are on their way to me from another eBay seller in the USA and are expected to arrive in a week or so. When they do, I will upload them here.

Magistrate Maskew (John Hoyt): "Just a moment. Master John was about to tell me something, weren't you master John. Let me see, what was it now...ah, yes, they were going to take you out in a boat and...do what to you exactly?"

John Mohune (Jon Whiteley), pausing to look around at his companions:
"That's all, sir."

Jeremy Fox (Stewart Granger): "Cheer up, Maskew. You can't hope to hang a man every morning."

Great photo. Lovely colour after all these years.

[darrenburnfan]

Thanks, Elaine. It is a real colour photo, whereas many lobby cards and Front-of-House stills in those days were colour tinted by hand.

[theuofc]

... many lobby cards and Front-of-House stills in those days were colour tinted by hand.

It's a beautiful colour photo, DBF. I didn't realise that many were tinted by hand! That must have been a time consuming process. Now I know why some of them are so expensive. Thanks for that information.

Best,

Barbara

[darrenburnfan]

Glad you like it, Barbara. That's still number eleven from the USA set of 12. I haven't seen the other eleven stills from that set as yet and it would be interesting to find out what scenes are on them. Two stills featuring Jon from the British set (probably a set of eight but it may have been a set of twelve also) are on the way to me at this moment from an eBay seller in California and I should have received them by this time next week. When they arrive, I will scan them and upload them. As far as I know, the USA set had different scenes to the UK set.