My guess, and only a guess, would be the green is a 2nd printing, blue later printing.
Thank you Peter for expressing your thoughts on the Subject. Before I comment any further I would love to hear from any other members with their thinking on the subject/.
I have just realized that I had posted a thread here on the forum in September 2016 titled The Enemy Below that had slipped my mind having previously done this. I will now repost this thread that covers all of what I was going to include here shortly. I am thinking that there is a W.E.Smith first printing daybill that is possibly similar to the Australian one sheet in having the film's title printed in yellow, Please check it out and let me know your thoughts.
More examples of 20th Century Fox green coloured duotone Australian daybili posters printed between 1957 to 1959.
To save me repeating things you can check out the various images and information that appears in The Enemy Below thread that was included there in October 2016.
How impressive is the above rare Australian W.E.Smith printed daybill's artwork that was designed for the 1947 'b' grade film Backlash? A great example from a period when Australian film poster artwork was generally top rate for most film posters that were produced in the 1940's.
With the above both images of Jean Rogers similar, why then the big difference in the male's image on the Australian daybill when compared to the one appearing on the original USA one sheet?
Without knowing the preferences in each country for the way they create their artwork, the main difference to me is that the USA image uses photos, whereas the Australian daybill uses artwork.
I don’t know if the photographic printing process was more expensive to do in Australia back then, and artwork was a cheaper alternative, but that’s why I always prefer the daybills over inserts. The photographic artwork on inserts looks cheap to me. Daybill artwork can be quite striking at times.
There's four actors with equal billing on the Backlash one sheet so the artwork difference is probably down to it being one of the other four.
The actor seen on the U.S.A. one sheet is John Eldredge, who also appears on the above two poster images holding a gun menacing Jean Rogers. The other actor also appearing to be menacing Jean Rogers on the Australian daybill s actually Larry Blake who played a police detective who comes to her rescue and shots dead the John Eldredge's played character who was intending to shoot her.
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To save me repeating things you can check out the various images and information that appears in The Enemy Below thread that was included there in October 2016.
How impressive is the above rare Australian W.E.Smith printed daybill's artwork that was designed for the 1947 'b' grade film Backlash? A great example from a period when Australian film poster artwork was generally top rate for most film posters that were produced in the 1940's.
With the above both images of Jean Rogers similar, why then the big difference in the male's image on the Australian daybill when compared to the one appearing on the original USA one sheet?
I don’t know if the photographic printing process was more expensive to do in Australia back then, and artwork was a cheaper alternative, but that’s why I always prefer the daybills over inserts. The photographic artwork on inserts looks cheap to me.
Daybill artwork can be quite striking at times.
Peter
The other actor also appearing to be menacing Jean Rogers on the Australian daybill s actually Larry Blake who played a police detective
who comes to her rescue and shots dead the John Eldredge's played character who was intending to shoot her.
Peter