50 Greatest Movie Lobby Cards

Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)

The Card: Preparing us for the brilliance of Harrison Ford as an archaeologist turned treasure hunter.

Why It's So Cool: It’s a moment that’ll go down in movie history, captured forever in lobby card form.

The Outsiders (1983)

The Card: A dramatic, moody offering for the film that helped its players become known as the Brat Pack.

Why It's So Cool: Rob Lowe. Patrick Swayze. Tom Cruise. All of them on the cusp of greatness.

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1967)

The Card: Introducing us to all seven of the dwarfs (all of whom are pulling poses that fit their characters), as well as Snow White herself. Nothing short of adorable.

Why It's So Cool: The story book comes to life in beautiful Technicolor.

Vertigo (1958)

The Card: Taps into Vertigo ’s themes of desire and objectification, while simply oozing class.

Why It's So Cool: It has the names James Stewart and Kim Novak on it. As well as James Stewart and Kim Novak themselves.

Hobo With A Shotgun (2011)

The Card: Hints that this Grindhouse revival is going to be one heck of a violent ride.

Why It's So Cool:
Rutger Hauer is the hobo with a shotgun!

Logans Run (1976)

The Card: Captures Jenny Agutter and Michael York in a moment of drama – they’re probably scared because they’re being chased by a smoke monster.

Why It's So Cool: It’s retro to the extreme. And therefore awesome.

One From The Heart (1982)

The Card: Teri Garr struts off to find adventure in Francis Ford Coppola’s romantic musical.

Why It's So Cool: The colours are gorgeous, while the visual metaphor has a power all its own.

The Killing (1956)

The Card: This would’ve shocked back in the day – a scene of mayhem from Kubrick’s defining film noir.

Why It's So Cool : It’s surprisingly graphic for the time.

RoboCop (1987)

The Card: A chrome wonder, introducing the gadget-heavy law enforcer.

Why It's So Cool:
It’s only flippin’ RoboCop carrying out his duty to serve and protect.

The Fly (1986)

The Card: Featuring Jeff Goldblum in the buff, about to have an experiment go wrong.

Why It's So Cool: That image has become synonymous with the film’s title.

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.  

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