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HERE ARE THE TAGLINES FROM THE UK AND US POSTERS FOR EVERY STEVE McQUEEN FILM

TITLE	UK POSTER TAGLINE	US POSTER TAGLINE(S)
1. Somebody Up There Likes Me	M.G.M presents a most important picture. It's tougher than Blackboard Jungle!	A Girl can lift a Fellow to the skies!
2. Never Love a Stranger	_	RAW and VIOLENT as the book that sold 3,000,000 SIZZLING copies!
3. The Blob	Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing can stop it!	1. Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing can stop it! 2. It crawls! It creeps! It eats you alive!
4. The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery	_	1. NEVER BEFORE IN POLICE ANNALS! NEVER BEFORE IN FILM HISTORY! Planned like clockwork it goes off like a time bomb! 2. Real as the screaming headlines! True as the bullets that wrote them!
5. Never So Few	_	Kiss by kiss the time ran out and never so few were the moments left for love!
6. The Magnificent Seven	They fought like seven hundred ...	1. The Magnificent One! 2. They were seven ... and they fought like seven hundred ...
7. The Honeymoon Machine	Fits either sex ... and makes nothing but LAUGHTER!	Fits either sex ... and makes nothing but laughter!
8. Hell is for Heroes	GREAT new stars! GREAT new roles! GREAT new hit!	1. THE MOST EXCITING YOUNG STARS OF OUR TIME HIT IT BIG IN A HIT FOR ALL AGES! 2. THIS IS THE LIVING HELL FOR HEROES ... blazing with an inferno of flame ... the violence of battle ... in a courageous new motion picture about the G.I.s of World War II ... with some of the most exciting young stars of our time!
9. The War Lover	THE MEN OF THE FLYING FORTS WHOSE BRAVERY BECAME A LEGEND ... came with their BIG bombers, BIG talk, BIG money and went over BIG with the women!	1. Some men love war the way others love women. This is the story of both kinds! 2. What can a girl expect of a war lover? 3. The war lover doesn't love ... he makes love!
10. The Great Escape	A GLORIOUS SAGA OF THE R.A.F.	1. The great adventure! The great entertainment! 2. 1:06 AM what went into these few seconds 1:07 AM the hell ... the heroism ... the high adventure 1:08 AM make for the screen's great entertainment! 1:09 AM 3. From a barbed-wire camp to a barbed-wire country, they made ...
11. Love with the Proper Stranger	There is a moment - a long moment - when everything is risked with the proper stranger	1. There is a moment - a long moment - when everything is risked with the proper stranger 2. Everybody's in "Love With The Proper Stranger"
12. Soldier in the Rain	_	TREMENDOUS TOGETHER! They turn anything and everything into the most hilarious adventure that every moved in on your heart!
13. Baby, the Rain Must Fall	From the makers of "LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER" and "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD"!	1. DON'T CALL HIM NO DAMN GOOD ... NOT IN FRONT OF HER! 2. ... as sure as love must follow trouble ... 3. The more he gets into trouble the more he gets under her skin!
14. The Cincinnati Kid	_	1. He'd take on anyone, at anything, anytime ... it was only a matter of who came first!
15. Nevada Smith	*Driving him, burning him, a storm of revenge swept Nevada Smith across the West to make a legend of his name.**	1. Now a name ... soon a legend 2. He drank and killed and loved and never forgot how to hate.
16. The Sand Pebbles	This is the story of the men on the U.S.S. San Pablo who disturbed the sleeping dragon of China as the world watched in breathless terror.	THIS IS THE HEROIC STORY OF THE MEN OF THE U.S.S. SAN PABLO WHO DISTURBED THE SLEEPING DRAGON OF SAVAGE CHINA AS THE THREATENED WORLD WATCHED IN BREATHLESS TERROR.
17. The Thomas Crown Affair	He was young, handsome, a millionaire - and he'd just pulled off the perfect crime! She was young, beautiful, a super sleuth - sent to investigate it!	McQUEEN and DUNAWAY ... PARTNERS IN CRIME. A Thrill-A-Minute Deal for a Million Dollars!
18. Bullitt	_	1. The word 'cop' isn't written all over him - something more puzzling is. 2. There are bad cops and there are good cops - and then there's Bullitt. 3. "BULLITT comes to this theatre soon. That ought to shake up the place pretty good. Not many freaky cops like BULLITT around. You look at the Italian shoes and the turtleneck and you have to wonder. You listen to the official beefs about 'personal misconduct', 'disruptive influence', you figure he's got to be up for trade. But when some rare Chicago blood starts spilling in San Francisco, they give BULLITT the mop. They weren't exactly doing him a favour. But they've done a great big one for you"
19. The Reivers	Boon is a Reiver (that's a cheat, a liar, a brawler and a womanizer) and he had just four days to teach young Lucius the facts of life (like cheating, lying, brawling and womanizing)	1. "The Reivers." William Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel is now a film! 2. A Reiver is a rascal. Steve McQueen is the head Reiver.
20. Le Mans	Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country. The country is France. The drive is at 200 MPH.	Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the country. The country is France. The drive is at 200 MPH!
21. On Any Sunday	Take a trip at 265 mph The true-life story of the men who live for motorcycles and motorcycle racing	From Bruce Brown who made 'Endless Summer'
22. Junior Bonner	STEVE McQUEEN going down his own road, tougher than ever, as	1. Going down his own road ... Steve McQueen as "Junior Bonner" THE LAST OF HIS KIND. 2. "Tell 'em Junior sent you"
23. The Getaway	IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE IT ... THE BIG TWO	_
24. Papillon	THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ESCAPE EVER FILMED!	1. TWO MEN WITH NOTHING IN COMMON BUT A WILL TO LIVE AND A PLACE TO DIE 2. FOR PAPILLON SURVIVAL WAS NOT ENOUGH HE HAD TO BE FREE 3. THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER ... THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ESCAPE ... NOW COMES TO THE SCREEN! 4. THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ESCAPE!
25. The Towering Inferno	ONE TINY SPARK BECOMES A NIGHT OF BLAZING SUSPENSE.	1. ONE TINY SPARK BECOMES A NIGHT OF BLAZING SUSPENSE The tallest building in the world is on fire. You are there with 294 other guests. There's no way down. There's no way out. 2. "THE TOWERING INFERNO" IS NOT JUST THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING IN FLAMES, ITS THE STORY OF PEOPLE 3. ONE TINY SPARK BECOMES A NIGHT OF BLAZING SUSPENSE. One minute you're attending a party atop the world's tallest skyscraper. The next ... you're trapped with 294 other guests in the middle of a fiery hell.
26. An Enemy of the People	The story of a man of courage.	The story of a man of courage.
27. Tom Horn	See him before he sees you.	1. See him before he sees you. 2. The day they came to get Tom Horn, they couldn't bring enough men.
28. The Hunter	The incredible true story of Ralph 'Papa' Thorson. He's a modern day bounty hunter and that's what makes him dangerous.	He's not as fast as he used to be ... That's what makes him human. He's a bounty hunter ... And that's what makes him dangerous.

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