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Adventure Movie PostersFor some reason, even though I am a huge Sci-Fi Movie fan, I just don't have very many Science Fiction Movie Posters. Well come to think of it, there is a very good reason: Sci-Fi often has great poster art, much greater than the actual special effects in the movie for many, so they tend to be very collectable. Curse you Supply and Demand! So under the general heading of Adventure, I am gathering together a mixture of Epics, Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi, Historical and other types of ripping yarns. Categorization of genres is of course subjective so try the Thriller, War or Western sections if you don't see it here. Why was Doug McClure so popular with Amicus? I have no idea, but there was an annoying tendency to try to gain American market share by shoehorning US Stars into British movies. Yet another attempt to save the UK film industry, the common theme in all these pages. A lot of these movies are American, though the posters are British. Let's face it the US has the budget for big adventures. They are also standard wet Saturday afternoon in England films that I remember seeing a lot of growing up, so I don't feel they are too out of place here. You will see that I don't have a lot to say about them if I don't remember the movie and the poster Art is unremarkable but that's OK because you are not here to listen to me ramble on. On with the Spectacle! |
Hammer Comedy Thriller Adventure Drama Family War Western
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Captain from Castile (1947) Quad Tyrone Power * Jean Peters * Cesar Romero * John Sutton * Lee J Cobb Don't think I ever saw this movie, suitably heroic matinee idol type art. Also, pre-1949 so paper rationing was still biting and making this rare, especially unfolded like this one. |
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Reign of
Terror (1949)
Quad
Robert Cummings * Arlene Dahl * Richard Basehart * Richard Hart * Arnold Moss * Norman Lloyd * Beulah Bondi This is a very battered and beaten copy but it's nearly 60 years old so it's not like a better one is likely to show up tomorrow, though having said that...Terrific dramatic art for this adventure set in Revolutionary France. |
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Tyrant Of
The Sea (1950)
Quad
Rhys Williams * Ron Randell * Valentine Perkins * Doris Lloyd * Lester Matthews A B Movie all at Sea... |
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King
Solomon's Mines (1950)
Quad
Deborah Kerr * Stewart Granger * Richard Carlson * Hugo Haas Not the first version of this story to be filmed but certainly one of the early adventures that inspired the things to come such as Raiders. |
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Smugglers
Island (1951)
Quad
Jeff Chandler * Evelyn Keyes * Philip Friend * Marvin Miller B Movie, B cups... more old tape than poster actually, a bit distressed. |
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Thief of
Damascus (1952)
Quad
Paul Henreid * John Sutton * Jeff Donnell * Lon Chaney * Elena Verdugo * Helen Gilbert I have seen this one come up for sale a few times which is unusual for such an old poster. Either there are just a lot in circulation or some of them are re-releases, this one is tatty enough to be original but you never know. |
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Slaves of
Babylon (1953)
Quad
Richard Conte * Maurice Schwartz * Michael Ansara * Leslie Bradley I've noticed that the art for Biblical epics often make very good use of their Starlettes curves. Funny that... |
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War of the Worlds (1953) /
The Sentinel
(1977) Quad
Gene Barry * Ann Robinson No surprise that I bought this poster for the War of the Worlds part, one of my favorite films. Not the best art, odd double bill reissue which I'm guessing is around 1977 based on the second feature. It does have some War Machine art, even if not in color. Mainly though, it's in my price range whereas the wonderful original art definitely isn't. An first release color version half sheet with war machine art and dramatic color went for $40,000 in 2006. I'll settle for this one...for now. |
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City
Beneath The Sea (1953)
Quad
Robert Ryan * Mala Powers * Anthony Quinn A little heavy on the sea green but nice old B Movie poster. |
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Rogues March
(1953)
Quad
Peter Lawford * Richard Greene * Janice Rule * Leo G. Carroll Looks like he went in to snog her and missed, maybe decided to lick her cheek instead. |
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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Quad
Tyrone Power * Terry More * Michael Rennie Classic heroic posing and a dramatic cavalry charge going on in the foreground too. What adventure films are all about. |
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Khyber Patrol
(1954)
Quad
Richard Egan * Dawn Addams * Raymond Burr * Patric Knowles Getting gritty round The Khyber again. |
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The Rocket Man (1954)
Quad
Charles Coburn * Spring Byington * Anne Francis * John Agar * George Foghorn Winslow 50's SF art for what looks to be a bit of a kids flick, not one I remember seeing. |
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The Golden
Mistress (1954)
Quad
John Agar * Rosemarie Bowe * Jacques Molant Tied to a stake in your nightie...happened all the time back then I'm sure. I like the boy's adventure tone of the art, very 50's. |
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Land of
the Pharaohs (1955)
Quad
Jack Hawkins * Joan Collins * Dewey Martin * Alexis Minotis * James Robertson Justice * Luisa Boni Greek, Roman, Egyptian...I am a big fan of sand and sandal epics, biblical or not. Before Conan showed up, these were as ripping a yarn as you could get, even if some religion or other got thrown in occasionally. In this case I remember as a kid being fascinated by the sand based hydraulic mechanism for sealing it all up. Nice poster art with the obligatory glamour shot of our Joan enjoying one of her first bites of the cherry as Hollywood starlette. |
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Oasis (1955)
Quad
Michele Morgan * Pierre Brasseur Desert art is so moody. |
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Ulysses (1955) Quad Italy Ulisse
Art: Manno Kirk Douglas * Silvana Mangano * Anthony Quinn * Rossana Podestŕ I like the poster art, in spite of the nice big white window they provide so the local cinema can scrawl on it. Luckily in this case, they left it blank. |
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Space Master X-7 (1957)
Quad
Bill Williams * Lyn Thomas * Robert Ellis Great 50's SF art, shiny rockets and lots of stars, though of course none could be afforded for the movie itself.. |
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The
Colossus of New York (1957)
Quad
John Baragrey * Mala Powers * Otto Kruger * Robert Hutton * Ross Martin * Charles Herbert * Ed Wolff One of the first sci-fi / horror movies I was allowed to stay up and see on TV as a kid. Dunno how old I was but I remember being a bit under-whelmed. |
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The Seventh
Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Watch Out Were Mad (1974) Quad
Art: Sanford (Sandy) Kossin Kerwin Mathews * Kathryn Grant * Richard Eyer * Torin Thatcher * Alec Mango * Danny Green I am told this is 1975, which fits in the with the 1974 Double Bill, but it is more or less the original artwork being squished over. I made my kids watch the DVD because I remembered seeing it as a kid. They weren't impressed, the pacing is quite slow, but Harryhausen's effects have stood the test of time with them. Back in it's day, a real rip snorting adventure, even if a little un-pc in places now. Hero a little clean shaven for a good Muslim too. |
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Harry Black / US Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)
Quad
Stewart Granger * Barbara Rush * Anthony Steel Image is of the tiger terrorizing the locals in India. |
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The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
Quad
John Wayne * Eiko Ando * Sam Jaffe * Sô Yamamura John Wayne, playing a diplomat and romantic lead this time. No, really. |
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The Naked Earth (1958)
Quad
Richard Todd * Juliette Greco * Finlay Currie * Laurence Naismith * Orlando Martins * Christopher Rhodes * John Kitzmiller Haven't seen this and apparently nor has anyone at IMDB, our heroine doing the posing this time. |
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The Moonraker
(1958)
Quad
George Baker * Sylvia Syms * Peter Arne * John Le Mesurier * Patrick Troughton Debatable whether these swashbucklers belong in Drama or not, what with the inevitable romance aspect, but I like to think of them as adventures. Certainly the art seems chock full of rip snorting fights as well as a decent image of clinging Sylvia Syms. |
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Solomon and
Sheba (1959)
Quad
Yul Brynner * Gina Lollobrigida * George Sanders Well, if it's biblical, you have to have a busty bad girl in the lead, it's the rule. This poster is likely a later re-release. The Daily Mirror banner and review notes are a bit of a giveaway, that and the condition is way too good. Still, a nice one and has the priceless factor since I remember watching it while staying with my Aunt Sally in Llanelly, Wales. She was quite a religious old lady so there was plenty of disapproving tutting of La Lollo as an accompanying soundtrack to all the good bits. |
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The
Warrior Empress (1960)
Quad Italy Saffo Venere di Lesbo
Kerwin Mathews * Tina Louise * Enrico Maria Salerno Couple of American leads gate crashing this Italian toga party featuring a heroine named Sappho...sounds like my kind of party but more importantly, looks like my kind of poster. |
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Francis of Assisi (1961)
Quad
Bradford Dillman * Dolores Hart * Stuart Whitman * Pedro Armendariz The pointy hat is mightier than the sword... |
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Revolt
of the Slaves (1961)
Quad French Rivolta degli schiavi, La
Rhonda Fleming * Lang Jeffries Well, pretty much got this one for the art, no surprise. A dubbed French/Spanish/Italian effort I haven't seen. It's got a girl with a whip though, what more do you need? Something about that image looks familiar...actually, there is an amazing amount of detail painted into the background, crucifixions, gladiators, fights and battles, it's all there. I wonder if any of that is in the actual film? |
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El Cid (1961)
Quad Charlton Heston * Sophia Loren * Genevičve Page One of Mum's favorites and I have certainly seen this one several times on bank holidays and Saturday afternoons over the years. |
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Fury of the Vikings (1961)
Quad Italy Gli Invasori
Cameron Mitchell * Alice Kessler * Ellen Kessler * Giorgio Ardisson Italian adventure with Die Kessler-Zwillinge spicing things up as they would for Sodom and Gomorrah, you can't go wrong with twins. Cameron Mitchell was the American star imported for US sales. |
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Blood On
His Sword French Miracle des loups (1961)
Courage of Black Beauty (1957)
Jean Marais * Rosanna Schiaffino * Jean-Louis Barrault John Crawford * Mimi Gibson * John Bryant |
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Five
Weeks In A Balloon (1962)
Quad
Red Buttons * Fabian * Barbara Eden * Cedric Hardwicke * Peter Lorre Well, OK, the art's not that great but I have a lot of affection for this movie for the Sunday afternoons it passed by. I am always happy to see - and hear - Peter Lorre in anything anyway. |
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The
Rebel Gladiators (1963)
Quad Italy Ursus, il gladiatore ribelle
Dan Vadis * Gloria Milland * José Greci * Sergio Ciani I am such a sucker for these cheap foreign wannabe epics. |
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Pirates of
Tortuga (1965)
Quad
Ken Scott * Letícia Román * Dave King * John Richardson * Rafer Johnson * Dudley Stephens Arrr! Said as only a Bristolian can...bring on the frilly shirts! This is the kind of poster I love, forgotten film, obscure stars and rip snorting action all over the poster. |
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The Fiercest Heart (1961)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Stuart Whitman * Juliet Prowse * Ken Scott * Raymond Massey * Geraldine Fitzgerald * Rafer Johnson Not completely unrelated to Zulu, on my want list for British posters. |
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Taras Bulba (1962)
Quad
Tony Curtis * Yul Brynner * Christine Kaufmann * Sam Wanamaker * Brad Dexter * Guy Rolfe Another great epic of the time, for some reason the armor piercing demise of Curtis has stuck in my mind. Great poster art with our heroes slashing it out. |
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Sodom and
Gomorrah (1962)
Quad
Stewart Granger * Pier Angeli * Stanley Baker * Rossana Podestŕ * Alice and Ellen Kessler Yeah, but you have to hand it to them, they knew how to party...Yet more evidence that those pious biblical epics are always sold on a as many hints of sex and sensationalism as they can get away with. Praise the Lewd. |
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Cavalry Command (1963)
The Starfighters (1964)
Quad Double Bill John Agar * Richard Arlen * Myron Healey * William Phipps * Alicia Vergel Robert Dornan * Richard Jordahl * Shirley Olmstead * Richard Masters Couldn't resist the shiny aeroplanes on this one. I always thought the F104 was such a beautiful design, practical or not.. |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Quad Art: Howard Terpning
Charlton Heston * Rex Harrison * Diane Cilento Michelangelo biography with more adventure than you would expect for a painter and decorator. |
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Quad
James Stewart * Richard Attenborough * Peter Finch * Hardy Krüger * Ernest Borgnine * Ian Bannen * Ronald Fraser No idea why the felt they needed to remake this film, this is still a great movie. This poster is unfolded and there is a another version below. |
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Quad Art: Jack Thurston
James Stewart * Richard Attenborough * Peter Finch * Hardy Krüger * Ernest Borgnine * Ian Bannen * Ronald Fraser Alternative art to the version above, not sure if this is a contemporary variation or later re-release. Though I like both, this has more interesting details but the one above is unfolded. Still, a good movie... |
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The
Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Quad
Stuart Whitman * Stanley Baker * Susannah York * Harry Andrews * Theodore Bikel * Nigel Davenport Obviously this is the sandy survival corner with the movie above, more grit than anyone could want. Gripping stuff though, and a dramatic image for the poster. |
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City Under The Sea (1965)
Quad
Vincent Price * Tab Hunter * David Tomlinson * Susan Hart * John Le Mesurier Vincent Price getting soggy on a wet Saturday afternoon, what more could you want? I also have some Lobby cards for this, another excursion before I got strict with myself about what exactly it was I was collecting. |
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Lord Jim (1965)
Quad
Art: Howard Terpning Peter O'Toole * James Mason * Curt Jürgens * Eli Wallach * Jack Hawkins * Daliah Lavi I've seen another variation on this quad art around, my version came with a big hole on his chin which I did a photoshop graft for. |
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Genghis Khan
(1965)
Quad
Stephen Boyd * Omar Sharif * James Mason * Eli Wallach * Francoise Dorleac * Telly Savalas * Robert Morley * Michael Hordern * Yvonne Mitchell * Woody Strode * Kenneth Cope Ah, I love the smell of an unwashed horde in the morning. Tone of the art reminds me of Monty Python but I guess the influence should be the other way round. |
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Khartoum (1966)
Quad
Art: Renato Fratini Charlton Heston * Laurence Olivier * Richard Johnson * Ralph Richardson * Michael Hordern * Zia Mohyeddin Hm, what does this conflict remind me of? I love a good epic based on the sins of us Brits. At least we have the character to criticize our past mistakes, unlike the infallibility complex of your modern day superpowers. |
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The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
Quad
Michael Parks * Ulla Bergryd * Richard Harris* John Huston * Stephen Boyd * George C. Scott * Ava Gardner * Peter O'Toole Is this your ark, mate? Well, you can't leave it here...urgh, what did I just step in? There's nudity in the foreground so it must be a biblical epic. |
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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Stephen Boyd * Raquel Welch * Edmond O'Brien * Donald Pleasance * Arthur O'Connell * William Redfield * Arthur Kennedy Oh yes, favorite Saturday afternoon movie, Raquel Welch pre nose job and bulging out of white rubber. Should be a 1-sheet for country of origin but the art on this quad is way better. It's not signed that I can spot but one sold at Christies identified as likely being Mr Chantrell's work. |
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Barbarella
(1968)
30x40
Art: Robert McGinnis Jane Fonda * John Phillip Law * Anita Pallenberg * Milo O'Shea * Marcel Marceau I so would love the original UK quad, with it's 60's art...but fat chance, routinely goes for a whole orphanage of limbs. This is a 30x40 portrait version, with very annoying Canadian "Adult Entertainment" warning gummed on. Even if not the quad, I like the art on this, I am also quite partial to modern but very reasonably priced Queen of the Galaxy Video Poster version that comes up occasionally. That may show up here too one day. |
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The
Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Quad
James Franciscus * Gila Golan * Richard Carlson Cowboys and dinosaurs may be a bit dodgy concept wise but I remember I nagged my Dad into taking me to see this. Harryhausen engineered some fairly convincing chomp and gulp of cowpokes during several scenes in the film, just what a young boy wants to see! |
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The Southern
Star (1969)
Quad
Art: Brian Bysouth George Segal * Ursula Andress * Orson Welles * Ian Hendry Throw those shoulders back... |
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Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Quad
Richard Harris * John Huston * Prunella Ransome * Percy Herbert * Dennis Waterman Poster a little beaten up but then so is Richard Harris. |
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Escape From The Planet of
The Apes (1971)
Quad
Roddy McDowall * Kim Hunter * Bradford Dillman * Natalie Trundy * Ricardo Montalban Not terribly interesting art but this was the first of the Ape films I was old enough to see. All the "good" ones had been AA but this was a family friendly A with it's subject matter of murdering infants. |
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Zero
Population Growth (1972)
Quad
Oliver Reed * Geraldine Chaplin * Don Gordon * Diane Cilento Haven't seen it but I am a sucker for anything Ollie... |
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The
Three Musketeers (1973)
Quad
Oliver Reed * Raquel Welch * Richard Chamberlain * Michael York * Frank Finlay * Christopher Lee * Geraldine Chaplin * Faye Dunaway Check out the Four Musketeers for a better poster in my opinion, the sequel was also a darker and more interesting story. Good movie though, with a fair attention to detail on the fight arrangements and some laughs along the way. Three and Four were of course shot back to back, a novelty at the time, almost doing the participants out of their double earnings. The Third installment, Return of the Musketeers, wouldn't show up until 1989, amazingly with cast pretty much intact. |
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
Quad Art: Brian Bysouth
John Phillip Law * Caroline Munro * Tom Baker I love this poster, scene after scene is woven into the background, especially the great Harryhausen set pieces like the sword fight with the Kali statue. |
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The Four Musketeers (1974)
Quad
Oliver Reed * Raquel Welch * Richard Chamberlain * Michael York * Frank Finlay * Christopher Lee * Geraldine Chaplin * Faye Dunaway I prefer the poster art on this sequel to the one for Three, better film too in many ways. Though not for us Raquel fans...her time cut short so cruelly... |
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At the Earths Core (1976)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Doug McClure * Peter Cushing * Caroline Munro * Cy Grant Another Amicus, McClure, Subotsky adventure but this one really lacks charm. I love Peter Cushing but the character he plays in this is sooo annoying. Poster art way better than the movie. |
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Logans Run (1976)
Quad Art: Charles Moll
Michael York * Jenny Agutter * Richard Jordan * Roscoe Lee Browne * Farrah Fawcett-Majors * Peter Ustinov A lot of critics thought Agutter and York were better than this and look down on this Sci-Fi flick...whatever, I love this movie. Color coordinated 70's baby doll nightdresses were to be the main feminine attire of the future according to this...and why not. |
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Futureworld
(1976)
Quad
Art: Neal Adams Peter Fonda * Blythe Danner * Arthur Hill * Yul Brynner Sequel to Westworld, both much the same. Yul Bryner only has a cameo in this one, made of cuttings from Westworld I'm guessing. |
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The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Patrick Wayne * Sarah Douglas * Thorley Walters * Dana Gillespie * Shane Rimmer * Doug McClure Amicus, McClure, Subotsky go to same destination as Land Time Forgot, which I will get my hand on one of these days. One of the better films in the McClure adventures, whatever happened to Dana Gillespie? She's alive and well and belting out Blues songs apparently...nice pair of lungs. |
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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Quad Art: Victor Gadino
Patrick Wayne * Taryn Power * Margaret Whiting * Jane Seymour * Patrick Troughton Dramatic art chock full of scenes from the movie. |
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The Four
Feathers (1977)
Quad
Art: Brian Bysouth Beau Bridges * Robert Powell * Simon Ward * Jane Seymour * Harry Andrews * Richard Johnson This was a TV miniseries that found it's way into cinema release. |
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Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
Quad Art: Josh Kirby
Doug McClure * Peter Gilmore * Cyd Charisse * Daniel Massey Amicus, McClure, Subotsky plumb the depths, again. Haven't seen this one so who knows. Cyd Charisse, what's she doing here? Artist Josh Kirby also did all the early Terry Pratchett paperbacks, another great joy of mine. Must have been a bit more disciplined for movie posters, the art isn't quite so Curvy as his paperback style. |
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Prisoner of the Cannibal God (1978)
Quad (La Montagna del dio cannibale) Art: Sam Peffer
Ursula Andress * Stacy Keach Never seen the movie, just love the art! I have a tea mug with this on it, what poster art is all about. No doubt the film is awful. Am I bothered? |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Quad
Richard Hatch * Dirk Benedict * Lorne Greene * Herb Jefferson Jr. * Wilfrid Hyde-White * Jane Seymour * Ray Milland OK, it looks dated now, and the redo it's had recently is so much better, but after Star Wars there was a huge demand for anything with a spaceship and this fit the bill. Some bits made you cringe, the kids and the dog were excruciating, but it has some good bits too. No, really... |
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Arabian Adventure (1979)
Quad Art: Mike Vaughan
Christopher Lee * Milo O'Shea * Oliver Tobias * Emma Samms * Peter Cushing * Puneet Sira UK 70's movie, low (no) budget and 70's TV stars. Trying to link it to Star Wars in the tagline is pretty blatant. Art is way better than any special effects you will see in this movie. |
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The Humanoid
(1979)
Quad Italy L'Umanoide
Richard Kiel * Corinne Clery * Leonard Mann * Barbara Bach * Arthur Kennedy Good grief I remember going to see this one, what a mess. Terrible movie, dubbed Jaws from Bond in a leather flying helmet, appalling. |
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The Shape of Things to Come (1979) Quad
Art: Tom Chantrell Jack Palance * Carol Lynley * Barry Morse Nice art...suckie movie. Why is that so often true for Sci-Fi? The only thing this movie has in common with Star Wars is the poster artist. |
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Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)
Quad
Richard Thomas * Robert Vaughn * John Saxon * George Peppard * Darlanne Fluegel * Sybil Danning * Sam Jaffe * Jeff Corey * Morgan Woodward What is it about this movie? On paper it should be awful, a cheap Roger Corman Star Wars bandwagon done in the style of Magnificent 7 rip off. Amazingly, I always found it a real guilty pleasure. John Boy as the hero, Sybil Danning in a stainless steel bra, Robert Vaughn as exactly the same guy he was in M7, George Peppard before he became the flabby leader of the A Team...Apparently other people like it too because for a B Movie, this poster always seems to sell for a lot more than you'd think. |
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Galaxina (1980)
Style A 1 Sheet Art: Robert Tanenbaum
Stephen Macht * Avery Schreiber * James David Hinton * Dorothy R. Stratten Vehicle for the iconic and tragic Dorothy Stratten who I had never heard of (I don't get out much...or stay home alone enough I guess would be more like) until I saw Star 80. The style B version has better artwork of Dorothy and I may try to get that but I like the more Sci-Fi bookish art on this version. I only recently saw the movie and well, its not good, but the poster I like. |
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Hangar 18 (1980)
Quad
Art: Tom Chantrell Darren McGavin * Robert Vaughn * Gary Collins 1980 was a good year for bad Sci-Fi looks like, cue the x-files music...Always a good idea to put your best special effects into the poster, certainly can't afford to put them into the movie... |
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The Day Time Ended (1980)
Quad
Jim Davis * Christopher Mitchum * Dorothy Malone * Marcy Lafferty Art promises a lot more than the special effects in this movie can deliver. |
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Star Wars The Empire Strikes
Back (1980)
Quad Art: Drew Struzan
Mark Hamill * Harrison Ford * Carrie Fisher * Billy Dee Williams * Anthony Daniels * David Prowse * Peter Mayhew * Kenny Baker * Alec Guinness Obscure B movie...Oh, OK. I planned to resist Star Wars posters due to their ridiculously high collectability factor. Variations in the details of the art makes it hard to say how rare what you've got actually is. This is an allegedly first release silver background banner for instance. It's a whole sub-genre of poster collecting I am ignorant of and there are fakes out there. I gave in on this one, consolation for missing out on an insanely cheap original 1977 pre-Oscars Star Wars that slipped through my fingers once. I am still in therapy. |
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Quest for Fire (1981)
Quad
Everett McGill * Ron Perlman * Nameer El-Kadi * Rae Dawn Chong Let the grunting begin...sparkling dialog or what? |
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Clash of the Titans (1981)
Quad Art: Roger Huyssen
Harry Hamlin * Burgess Meredith * Ursula Andress * Claire Bloom * Sian Phillips * Flora Robson * Laurence Olivier I will watch anything by Harryhausen, CGI rocks but, like Nick Parks and those who do it the old fashioned way, his stuff has soul. Nice poster art which seems to come up every other week on Ebay described as "rare". More or less the last of these type of movies. |
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Heavy Metal (1981)
Quad Art: Chris Achilleos
Really excellent art from Fantasy artist Chris Achilleos on this poster, the movie is a mixed bag of fantasy short stories, some more coherent than others, based on art and tales from the US version of the French comic magazine Métal Hurlant. The soundtrack was excellent but kept this from video release for many years due to the license wrangling between the various artistes labels. |
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Heavy Metal (1981)
1 Sheet Art: Chris Achilleos
I think this 1996 One Sheet version was for the long awaited video release.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Style B
(1981) Quad Art: Brian Bysouth
Harrison Ford * Karen Allen * Paul Freeman * Ronald Lacey * John Rhys-Davies * Denholm Elliott * Alfred Molina The Daily Mirror tagline suggest this is a re-issue and the fact it wasn't that expensive to buy. I like the art though and this movie owes a lot to the 50's adventures above. Other art for this movie is by Richard Amsel but this is my favorite. |
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Blade Runner
(1982)
Quad
Art: John Alvin Harrison Ford * Rutger Hauer * Sean Young * Edward James Olmos * M. Emmet Walsh * Daryl Hannah * Joanna Cassidy Perfect example of how a movie can be terribly flawed and still brilliant. There are several versions of the artwork, including Video, Special Edition and Directors cut versions, which I must admit I actually think are better than this, more like the US 1-Sheet. This one claims to be from original theatrical release; it has the car advert. I know John Alvin did the 1-Sheet poster art and I believe bits of it are included here too but I could be wrong. |
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The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Quad
Art: Bryan Bysouth Lee Horsley * Kathleen Beller * Simon MacCorkindale * George Maharis * Richard Lynch * Nina Van Pallandt The trick triple blade firing sword was a bit of a novelty. |
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Sahara (1983)
Quad
Art: Drew Struzan Brooke Shields * Lambert Wilson * Horst Buchholz * John Rhys-Davies * Ronald Lacey Mr Drew has done some pretty good art for 80's flix, much better than photo collages.. |
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Prisoners of the Lost
Universe (1983)
Quad
Art: Tom Chantrell Richard Hatch * Kay Lenz * John Saxon * Peter O'Farrell Well, I admit I have never seen it but the art is what we are all here for, it's either blowing up or bulging out. |
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Spacehunter
Adventures in the Forbidden Zone 3D (1983)
Quad
Peter Strauss *Molly Ringwald * Ernie Hudson * Andrea Marcovicci * Michael Ironside Pretty in pink, or Day-Glo apparently. Here because I remember seeing it and thinking I had seen worse. Obviously they expected a franchise series but not successful enough. The art is again not bad for 80's. |
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Hundra (1983)
Quad
Laurene Landon * John Ghaffari * María Casal Oh, I was so happy to get hold of this one...The great thing about obscure, forgotten and derivative bandwagon jumping movies is they often have great art. Love this one, it is actually a half decent movie too. I am guessing the poster was cheap because nobody seems to have seen it. Also, this is one of those movies that directly links to a time in my life I can remember well. |
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Starflight One
(1983)
Quad
Lee Majors * Hal Linden * Lauren Hutton * Ray Milland A disgrace to sci-fi with Airport flavored disaster nonsense but decent poster art. |
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Dreamscape (1984)
1 Sheet Art: Drew Struzan
Dennis Quaid * Max Von Sydow * Christopher Plummer * Kate Capshaw One of those movies I remember going to see that resonated, probably because I spend too much time asleep. Underestimated in my opinion. I haven't seen it on TV for a while. Art is looking for an Indiana Jones audience. |
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Romancing
the Stone (1984)
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Art: Mike Bell Michael Douglas * Kathleen Turner * Danny DeVito * Zack Norman Yet another Indiana Jones wannabe and guilty pleasure. Douglas back when his old man was the old man. |
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Jewel of the Nile (1985)
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Michael Douglas * Kathleen Turner * Danny DeVito * Spiros Focás * Avner Eisenberg Charmless sequel to Romancing the Stone that is only here because I am a sad anorak who can't resist completing a set. Art's not bad but not as good as the original, same as the movie really. |
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Lifeforce (1985)
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Steve Railsback * Peter Firth * Frank Finlay * Mathilda May * Patrick Stewart * Michael Gothard * Nicholas Ball One I remember seeing but memorable only for the extreme perkiness of Ms May who seemed to vanish from US movies after this. Other than it's vaguely about space vampires, the rest is a blur. |
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King
Solomons Mines (1985)
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Richard Chamberlain * Sharon Stone * Herbert Lom * John Rhys-Davies Richard Chamberlain as the adventurer in a hat who looks a bit like another famous behatted adventurer and unknown Sharon Stone who screams a lot. Of course Indian Jones was inspired by serials and earlier adventure movies such as, um, King Solomon's Mines. There's just nothing new is there? Great poster for an OK'ish if you aren't expecting Raiders film. |
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Allan Quatermain
and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
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Richard Chamberlain * Sharon Stone * James Earl Jones * Henry Silva * Cassandra Peterson Second outing for this blatant Indiana Jones rip off...which itself, of course, is a rip off of earlier movie adventures. So I guess the circle is complete and ever going...Stone was still a B girl when this was made, she didn't get noticed until Total Recall really. Rare acting appearance of Elvira's owner-operator briefly pops up too, blink and you'll miss it. |
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Peggy Sue
Got Married (1986)
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Kathleen Turner * Nicolas Cage * Barry Miller * Catherine Hicks * Joan Allen * Jim Carrey Probably miss categorizing this but what the hell, it was marketed as a distaff Back To The Future when it came out. |
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
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Michael York * Oliver Reed * Frank Finlay * C. Thomas Howell * Kim Cattrall * Roy Kinnear * Christopher Lee * Richard Chamberlain Back together again, a long time since their last outing and definitely the worse for wear but amazing to have a consistent cast. |
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Judge Dredd
(1995)
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Teaser Sylvester Stallone * Diane Lane * Armand Assante * Max von Sydow Well, I Got 2000AD fairly religiously for a long time so anticipated this as much as every other anorak. If Stallone had enough ego security to keep his helmet on throughout the whole film I would have had more respect for him and to be fair, he had the Dredd look, helmet on. They got the look of the comic right too for most of the film. Maybe it's the too high anticipation but it just isn't that good, way too much Stallone being Stallone once the helmet is off. |
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Mars Attacks!
(1996)
Quad Art: Philip Castle
Jack Nicholson * Glenn Close * Annette Bening * Pierce Brosnan * Danny DeVito * Martin Short * Sarah Jessica Parker * Michael J. Fox * Rod Steiger * Tom Jones * Pam Grier * Lisa Marie OK, way too modern to be in here really but I love this movie so it's a good place to stop. Impressive cast for a movie based on trading card art. I always thought it was under appreciated for a Tim Burton film. Wobbly spaceships in the best tradition's of B movies, over the top acting and some great miming from Martian Girl borrowing one of Jayne Mansfield's 50's bra's...love it. |
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