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For 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!

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Brigitte Helm * Alfred Abel * Gustav Fröhlich

Kicking off with a classic but clearly a modern reissue as far as this poster is concerned. Even so, nice image, albeit photographic.

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.

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.

Rhys Williams * Ron Randell * Valentine Perkins * Doris Lloyd * Lester Matthews

A B Movie all at Sea...

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.

Jeff Chandler * Evelyn Keyes * Philip Friend * Marvin Miller

B Movie, B cups... more old tape than poster actually, a bit distressed.

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.

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...

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.

Robert Ryan * Mala Powers * Anthony Quinn

A little heavy on the sea green but nice old B Movie poster.

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.

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.

Richard Egan * Dawn Addams * Raymond Burr * Patric Knowles

Getting gritty round The Khyber again.

Kirk Douglas * James Mason * Paul Lukas * Peter Lorre * Robert J. Wilke

I must have seen this movie several times over the years, but I still have great memories of the first time which may well have been when this poster was re-released. Like a lot of Big D films you look back on now, the character stereotypes can be a bit grating. Certainly Kirk Douglas plays a real excitable and brainless a-hole in this one. I know I saw it in the 60's because Craig across the road gave me a clockwork Nautilus for my 8th Birthday. Thanks to Douglas I was rooting for Cpt Nemo, the Squid and Peter Lorre.

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.

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.

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.

Michele Morgan * Pierre Brasseur

Desert art is so moody.

Kirk Douglas * Silvana Mangano * Anthony Quinn * Rossana Podestà

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.

Rossana Podestà * Jack Sernas * Sir Cedric Hardwicke * Stanley Baker * Niall MacGinnis * Nora Swinburne * Robert Douglas * Torin Thatcher * Harry Andrews * Janette Scott * Ronald Lewis * Brigitte Bardot

Even for a 50 year old poster this one is very distressed. The old tape on the back caused deep wrinkles, tearing and it would need linen backing to restore it. I didn't attempt any photo-shopping and included a higher res version so you can see what state some of these old posters can be in. Still how many times have I seen this for sale? Never. Having said that, one will show up the moment I post this update...Whatever, I love this poster.

Guy Madison * John Hodiak * Virginia Leith * Dean Jagger * Warren Stevens * King Calder

More about the real life Air Force preparations for possibly leaving the atmosphere than a sci-fi movie. Still, nice 50's image.

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..

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. Pretty basic art, 4 colour hand cut silkscreen according to Sim.

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.

Stewart Granger * Barbara Rush * Anthony Steel

Image is of the tiger terrorizing the locals in India.

John Wayne * Eiko Ando * Sam Jaffe * Sô Yamamura

John Wayne, playing a diplomat and romantic lead this time. No, really.

Rafael Luis Calvo * Gianna Maria Canale * Mara Cruz * Salvatore Furnari * Ettore Manni * Georges Marchal * Ricardo Montalban

It's worth including a slightly higher resolution image of this one, just because there is so much slave girl in nightie action going on in it. They are being whipped, menaced, ravished, burnt and dragged. How much of this is actually in the cheapo Italian dubbed wannabe epic, who knows? Great poster though!

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.

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.

Al Hedison * June Laverick * David Farrar * Marius Goring * Philip Friend * Delphi Lawrence

The twist for this story being that the Son was useless, it was Robin's daughter that inherited the knack.

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.

Debra Paget * Paul Hubschmid * Walter Reyer * Claus Holm * Sabine Bethmann * Valéry Inkijinoff * René Deltgen

Nah, that's not a knife...now this is a knife...

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.

Bradford Dillman * Dolores Hart * Stuart Whitman * Pedro Armendariz

The pointy hat is mightier than the sword...

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?

Charlton Heston * Sophia Loren * Geneviève Page

One of Mum's favorites and I have certainly seen this one several times on bank holidays and Saturday afternoons over the years.

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.

Jean Marais * Rosanna Schiaffino * Jean-Louis Barrault

John Crawford * Mimi Gibson * John Bryant

Don Megowan * Silvana Pampanini * Emma Danieli * Livio Lorenzon * Germano Longo * Loris Gizzi

Arr, assorted Italian salts assaulting at sea, matey. Give 'er another lick o'the cat, arr. I miss talk like a pirate day at work.

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.

Maurice Chevalier * Hayley Mills * George Sanders * Wilfrid Hyde-White * Michael Anderson Jr. * Antonio Cifariello * Keith Hamshere * Wilfrid Brambell

Big D having a pillage of Jules Verne again and not unrelated to 20,000 Leagues either, at least as Verne wrote it.

Reg Lewis * Margaret Lee * Luciano Marin

Lang Jeffries * Mario Feliciani * Moira Orfei * Evi Maltagliati

Both of these films have been out and about under different titles and were originally Italian movies. It's not clear what the date of the double bill is but who cares, the art may be stretching the truth of the films contents but it's likely more spectacular than the movies.

Dan Vadis * Gloria Milland * José Greci * Sergio Ciani

I am such a sucker for these cheap foreign wannabe epics.

Anthony Quayle * Sylvia Syms * Derek Fowlds * Johnny Sekka * Jenny Agutter

First appearance of Jenny Agutter, according to IMDB.

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.

Stuart Whitman * Juliet Prowse * Ken Scott * Raymond Massey * Geraldine Fitzgerald * Rafer Johnson

Not completely unrelated to Zulu, on my want list for British posters.

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.

Stewart Granger * Pier Angeli * Stanley Baker * Rossana Podestà * 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.

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..

Elizabeth Taylor * Richard Burton * Rex Harrison * Pamela Brown * George Cole * Cesare Danova * Kenneth Haigh * Andrew Keir * Martin Landau * Roddy McDowall * Francesca Annis * Gregoire Aslan

I know this is on all those lists of most expensive disaster, worst films, etc but it's one of my favorites. My be misfiled here since it's clearly a historical romantic drama of epic proportions, but I enjoyed it first as a kid and as an adventure so here it is. The giant be-Kohled head of Taylor and a great perspective into the forum, this is one of the Toga Tales here where the movie lives up to the art.

Charlton Heston * Rex Harrison * Diane Cilento

Michelangelo biography with more adventure than you would expect for a painter and decorator.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Dyneley * Sylvia Anderson * Shane Rimmer * Jeremy Wilkin * Matt Zimmerman * David Graham * Ray Barrett * Christine Finn

The British Quad version has much better artwork with Thunderbird 2 in the foreground but hey, the difference is, I could afford this one. Actually, as a kid TB irritated me a bit, the cliffhanger time outs always kept resetting to build the tension, even I could spot there was something wrong with that. Still, great action poster for the puppets who saved the world. I would of course have preferred the UK Quad but, well, with the left arm to dollar exchange rate being what it is...

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.

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!

George Segal * Ursula Andress * Orson Welles * Ian Hendry

Throw those shoulders back...

Richard Harris * John Huston * Prunella Ransome * Percy Herbert * Dennis Waterman

Poster a little beaten up but then so is Richard Harris.

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.

Oliver Reed * Geraldine Chaplin * Don Gordon * Diane Cilento

Haven't seen it but I am a sucker for anything Ollie...

Jon Finch * Jenny Runacre * Hugh Griffith * Patrick Magee * Sterling Hayden * Harry Andrews * Graham Crowden

If you are looking for quirky, in a very 70's kind of way, then this is your movie. Very strange. It definitely has some good bits, the needle guns have stuck in my head for some reason, but goes off in several very strange directions. I bet you'd never guess that from the art, right? After seeing this movie I thought I really should read the books, but it's still on my to do list even after all these years.

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.

Yul Brynner * Richard Benjamin * James Brolin * Alan Oppenheimer * Dick Van Patten * Linda Scott

Dated now for sure but actually quite original and quirky at the time. The robots in this movie would cater for your every fantasy, providing they had the parts. I've been looking for this as a companion to Futureworld for quite a while, so happy to find it. Seems to be a very popular poster when it shows up.

Sean Connery * Charlotte Rampling * Sara Kestelman * John Alderton * Sally Anne Newton

British sci-fi, which doesn't happen very often on the big screen. You can tell country of origin by the fact the men of the future are still lugging WW II Lea-Enfield's instead of ray guns. In spite of the glaring 70's datedness, worth it for John Alderton not playing a foggy teacher for a change, Connery in a SnM leather thong (if you like that kind of thing). Rampling in a see-through nightie of the future (why is future fashion always nighties?) and the whole plot being a ridiculous pun. Still, I love it.

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.

David Hartman * Donald Sinden * Jacques Marin * Mako * David Gwillim * Agneta Eckemyr * Gunnar Ohlund

Big D having a go at a Jules Verne like adventure with a largely Icelandic cast.

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...

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.

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.

Peter Fonda * Blythe Danner * Arthur Hill * Yul Brynner

Sequel to Westworld, both much the same. Yul Bryner only has a cameo in this one, possibly constructed of cuttings from the first.

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.

Patrick Wayne * Taryn Power * Margaret Whiting * Jane Seymour * Patrick Troughton

Dramatic art chock full of scenes from the movie.

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.

Mark Hamill * Harrison Ford * Carrie Fisher * Peter Cushing * Alec Guinness * David Prowse * James Earl Jones

Ah, so glad to get this...original pre-oscars release, great condition, just three vertical folds, no pinholes. A real beauty. My eldest daughter has already claimed this when I die. Not to mention the movie itself, the time in my life it reminds me of...Sigh, I need a moment...

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.

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?

David Carradine * Claudia Jennings * Richard Lynch * William Smithers * Will Walker * David McLean

Claudia Jennings * Tara Strohmeier * Jocelyn Jones * Nancy Bleier

Apparently a Claudia Jennings in shorts fest with killer bikes thrown in. The post apocalyptic angle gets it into the Adventure section but it's really the usual exploitation. Nothing wrong with that, makes for great posters.

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...

José Ferrer * Burgess Meredith * Mel Ferrer * Horst Buchholz * Lynda Day George

Film derived from what was really a TV series pilot but I keep seeing this poster show up so gave in when it swam by cheap. Underwater battle art has always interested me, ever since Action Transfers. Interesting that this is an Irwin Allen, the enemy sub looks a lot like the Seaview. He is known for recycling everything he does and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea can be spotted throughout.

Gil Gerard * Pamela Hensley * Erin Gray * Henry Silva * Tim O'Connor * Joseph Wiseman * Duke Butler * Felix Silla

It was definitely cheesy, especially after the second series when it was full tilt chasing the ratings trying to be the successor to Star Trek. It even had a Hawk Man Spock wannabe. Before that though it wasn't half bad, for the 70's. OK, so it had an annoyingly cute robot, a central plot point to the pilot episode was Buck dancing like your dad at a wedding but even so it had some good moments. I was always hoping they would make more of the devastated cityscape he explored just once.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Jim Davis * Christopher Mitchum * Dorothy Malone * Marcy Lafferty

Art promises a lot more than the special effects in this movie can deliver.

Mark Hamill * Harrison Ford * Carrie Fisher * Billy Dee Williams * Anthony Daniels * David Prowse * Peter Mayhew * Kenny Baker * Alec Guinness

Obscure B movie sequel...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.

Everett McGill * Ron Perlman * Nameer El-Kadi * Rae Dawn Chong

Let the grunting begin...sparkling dialog or what?

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.

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.

I think this 1996 One Sheet version was for the long awaited video release.

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.

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.

Harrison Ford * Rutger Hauer * Sean Young * Edward James Olmos * M. Emmet Walsh * Daryl Hannah * Joanna Cassidy

More recent quad for the Directors Cut version that is not only a superior film but also uses the original Alvin art better.

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

Lee Majors * Hal Linden * Lauren Hutton * Ray Milland

A disgrace to sci-fi with Airport flavored disaster nonsense but decent poster art.

Mark Hamill * Harrison Ford * Carrie Fisher * Billy Dee Williams * Anthony Daniels * Peter Mayhew * Ian McDiarmid * Frank Oz * James Earl Jones * David Prowse * Alec Guinness * Kenny Baker

As mentioned, Star Wars posters are a whole subset of collecting I am not an expert on. However, this is a London Underground sized 27x40 Style A (No Ewoks) for those that are. I believe the Style A (With Ewoks) is more collectable but really, who wants Ewoks? I just couldn't help myself about getting the whole poster trilogy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 amazingly has a consistent cast.

Mark Hamill * Harrison Ford * Carrie Fisher * Billy Dee Williams * David Prowse * Alec Guinness

Yet another one of my cheap acquisitions holding the place while I wait to win the lottery and buy the more collectible originals. This is a commercial release reprint from German printers Zig Zag based on the marathon re-release of what was then the whole saga all in one sitting. Called for a really big bucket of popcorn and a bladder of steel. This is 27 3/4" x 39 3/4" which is just a shade to small for display even in the London Underground. A real original 30x40 Quad for the triple bill release should have white strip across top with helmet extending into it and wide gold band across bottom that this one lacks.

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 factor but it just isn't that good, way too much Stallone stomping around being Stallone once the helmet is off.

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.