Action and adventure films have always sold themselves on pure kinetic promise, and the posters that promoted them had to deliver that feeling before anyone bought a ticket. From B-westerns and submarine thrillers of the 1950s to international co-productions of the 1960s, studios commissioned artwork that compressed danger, movement, and exotic setting into a single image. Polish designers like Waldemar Swierzy brought a painterly intensity to the genre that American studios rarely matched. Everything shown here is a period original.