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Drama Movie PostersAssorted tear jerker's, melodramas and romances can be found here, or just the plain old unclassifiable. The common thread being I liked the art, especially if bosoms were heaving. I am nothing if not consistent in my shallowness. There's even a little foreign exploitation and soft focus smut thrown in. A lot of these I have never seen, especially the 50's ones. So why did I buy them? Well, sometimes the art and sometimes they came as lots with other posters. I find it hard to let any of them go even if they aren't my core interest of Horror and British comedies.
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Gone With
The Wind 1980 Re-Release (1939)
Quad
Art: Howard Terpning Clark Gable * Vivien Leigh * Leslie Howard * Olivia de Havilland Definitely not an original but a much more affordable 1980's version from the films re-release. Still, terrific visual of the classic romance. |
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Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) Quad
June Haver * George Montgomery * Vivian Blaine * Celeste Holm * Vera-Ellen * Frank Latimore 40's US Musical, all shiny faces and lacquered hair. This is amazingly unfolded and from an era of paper shortage. The very thin paper is in excellent condition and I'm doing my best to keep it that way. |
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Roseanna McCoy
(1949)
Quad
Farley Granger * Joan Evans * Charles Bickford * Raymond Massey * Richard Basehart R & J with Hillbillies apparently, but here just for the 40's heaving bosom art. |
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The Pride of Saint Louis (1952) Quad
Dan Dailey * Joanne Dru * Richard Hylton * Richard Crenna * Hugh Sanders * James Brown * Leo T Cleary Baseball biopic in Day-Glo orange. |
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Good Morning, Miss Dove! (1955) Quad
Jennifer Jones * Robert Stack * Kipp Hamilton * Robert Douglas |
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The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
Quad
Vivien Leigh * Kenneth More * Eric Portman * Emlyn Williams Weird eyes... |
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The Virgin Queen (1955)
Quad Art: Jock Hinchliffe
Betty Davies * Richard Todd * Joan Collins * Jay Robinson * Herbert Marshall * Dan O'Herlihy Dodgy US version of Brit history. |
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3 Brave Men (1956) Quad
Art: Tom Chantrell Ray Milland * Ernest Borgnine * Dean Jagger * Frank Lovejoy * Nina Foch |
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Teenage Rebel (1956) Quad
Ginger Rogers * Michael Rennie * Betty Lou Keim * Warren Berlinger * Diane Jergens B&W parent and teenager angst from the 50's. Period photo of the weepie teen in her pencil skirt. |
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The Many Loves of Hilda Crane (1956) Quad
Art: Jock Hinchliffe
Jean Simmons * Guy Madison * Jean Pierre Aumont * Judith Evelyn * Evelyn Varden * Peggy Knudsen * Greg Palmer Jean Simmons having a bit of a lie down. |
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The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) Quad
Jock Hinchliffe
Jane Russell * Richard Egan * Joan Leslie * Agnes Moorehead * Michael Pate Russell still wearing the Howard Hughes bra by the look of it and making Hawaii a happier place for US servicemen before Pearl Harbor spoils the party. |
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No Down Payment (1957) Quad
Art: Tom Chantrell Joanne Woodward * Sheree North * Tony Randall * Jeffrey Hunter * Cameron Mitchell * Patricia Owens * Barbara Rush * Pat Hingle Life in 50's California suburbs without Starbucks, nothing to get out of bed for. |
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The Sun Also Rises (1957) Quad
Tyrone Power * Ava Gardner * Mel Ferrer * Errol Flynn * Eddie Albert * Juliette Greco Frenchmen in berets and scarves? Where are the onions? |
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The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Quad
Joanne Woodward * David Wayne * Lee J Cobb * Nunnally Johnson 3 girls in one, like dating triplets except only one of them puts out. I'm guessing the Red one. |
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The Wayward Bus (1957) Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Joan Collins * Jayne Mansfield * Dan Dailey * Rick Jason * Betty Lou Keim * Delores Michaels * Larry Keating Mansfield clearly sporting the photo-finish in a Zeppelin race look of the 50's nosecone bra. |
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Sing Boy Sing (1958) Quad
Tommy Sands * Lili Gentle * Edmond O'Brien * John McIntire Hm, who does this poster art make him look vaguely like? I wonder if that's a coincidence? |
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The Gift of Love (1958) Quad
Lauren Bacall * Robert Stack * Evelyn Rude * Lorne Greene According to the poster art, this seems to be about snogging the severed head of Lauren Bacall...or maybe he's going bowling with it. |
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958) Quad
Art: Tom Chantrell Paul Newman * Joanne Woodward * Anthony Franciosa * Orson Welles * Lee Remick * Angela Lansbury Bad boy, girl next door. |
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The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
Quad
Dirk Bogarde * Yoko Tani * Ronald Lewis * John Fraser |
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Nor The Moon By Night (1958)
Quad Art: Renato Fratini
Patrick McGoohan * Michael Craig * Anna Gaylor * Belinda Lee Don't step in the...urgh, too late, bloody elephants... |
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The Dark At The Top Of The
Stairs (1960)
Quad
Robert Preston * Dorothy McGuire * Eve Arden * Angela Lansbury |
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Walk On
The Wild Side (1962)
Quad
Art: Saul Bass Laurence Harvey * Capucine * Jane Fonda * Anne Baxter * Barbara Stanwyck |
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The Chalk Garden (1964)
Quad Art: Renato Fratini
Deborah Kerr * Hayley Mills * John Mills * Edith Evans |
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Doctor Zhivago (1965) Quad
Art: Howard Terpning Omar Sharif * Julie Christie * Geraldine Chaplin * Tom Courtney * Alec Guinness * Siobhan McKenna * Ralph Richardson * Rod Steiger * Rita Tushingham My 1st release (I think) Doctor Zhivago is pretty beaten up, missing bits around the edges which I admit I photoshopped back in for this pic. |
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Doctor Zhivago Reissue (1965) Quad
Art: Howard Terpning Omar Sharif * Julie Christie * Geraldine Chaplin * Tom Courtney * Alec Guinness * Siobhan McKenna * Ralph Richardson * Rod Steiger * Rita Tushingham Much better condition re-release version. My wife's favorite movie, a guilty pleasure for me too (but don't tell her). There is also a stripped down red art version of this that comes up now and then. |
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A Rage to Live
(1965)
Quad
Suzanne Pleshette * Bradford Dillman * Ben Gazzara * Peter Graves I appreciate the extra complexity of art featuring a mirror... |
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Sandra Of A Thousand Delights
(1965)
Quad France Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa
Claudia Cardinale * Jean Sorel * Michael Craig * Renzo Ricci * Fred Williams Great title... |
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Primitive
London (1965)
Quad
David Gell * Barry Cryer * Mick McManus * Ray Martine Documentary setting out to shock by exposing the alleged steamy underside of London. Great image, whether the hock-shorror is really there or not...who knows. |
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Helga (1967)
Quad German Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens
Ruth Gassmann * Eberhard Mondry Soft porn in the early days snuck in from foreign parts as being "educational". I suspect with an "A" rating this would likely disappoint but there would be more of the same coming soon enough, especially those naturist "documentaries". |
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Woman Times
Seven (1967)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Shirley MacLaine * Alan Arkin * Rossano Brazzi * Michael Caine * Anita Ekberg * Vittorio Gassman * Peter Sellers Seven stories about love and sex starring Shirley MacLaine with quite an interesting bunch of 60's stars. |
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Two for the Road (1967) Quad
Audrey Hepburn * Albert Finney * Eleanor Bron * William Daniels * Claude Dauphin * Nadia Gray Those glasses are back in style amongst the WAGs now...beware the bug woman. |
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The Graduate
(1967)
Play Dirty (1968) Quad
Anne Bancroft * Dustin Hoffman * Katharine Ross Classic movie, poster with the classic image, even if a double bill and likely re-release. |
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Oliver! (1968)
Quad
Art: Howard Terpning Ron Moody * Shani Wallis * Oliver Reed * Harry Secombe * Mark Lester * Jack Wild Yep, got dragged to this one by my parents, never have been a big fan of musicals. Poster looks to be Oscar rerelease, maybe 1972 vintage, not sure. |
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Star! (1968) Quad
Julie Andrews * Richard Crenna * Michael Craig * Daniel Massey * Bruce Forsyth * Beryl Reid I had no idea Brucie had been in a movie. 60's garish art hits you right in the eyeballs. |
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Secret
Ceremony (1968)
Quad
Elizabeth Taylor * Mia Farrow * Robert Mitchum * Peggy Ashcroft |
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The
Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Italian Il Dolce corpo di Deborah Quad Art: Signed Jim Tate (I Think)
Carroll Baker * Jean Sorel * Evelyn Stewart Arty melodrama that promises more smut than it delivers, nice poster though. |
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Quad Art: Bob Peak
Anthony Quinn * Virna Lisi * Hardy Kruger * Stergio Franchi * Anna Magnani Another good rendering of Anthony Quinn. |
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The Music
Lovers (1970)
Quad
Richard Chamberlain * Glenda Jackson * Max Adrian * Christopher Gable * Kenneth Colley Ken Russell, so you know it has to be a bit dodgy...and it is. Real cinema history example here, theatre times scrawled, academy awards sticker glued on and drawing pin holes, the works. |
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Julius Caesar
(1970)
Quad
Charlton Heston * Jason Robards * John Gielgud * Richard Johnson * Robert Vaughn * Richard Chamberlain * Diana Rigg * Christopher Lee * Jill Bennett I see Gielgud got eponymously elbowed out of top billing by Heston, I bet that hurts. |
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
/ Myra Beckinridge (1970)
Quad
Dolly Read * Cynthia Myers * Marcia McBroom * John Lazar Mae West * John Huston * Raquel Welch * Rex Reed * Farrah Fawcett Another Russ Meyer, well, he's bound to show up in here isn't he? Raquel too is a nice bonus. Mae West? You're kidding? |
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Dearest Love (1971)
Quad French Le Souffle au Coeur
Lea Massari * Benoît Ferreux * Daniel Gélin * Michael Lonsdale * Ave Ninchi It's French...that's about all I know about it but I am pretty sure dodgy sex is involved. Like I said, it's French. |
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Master of Love (1972) Quad Art: Sam Peffer
Italy Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti
Tina Aumont * Janet Agren * Rossano Brazzi * Barbara Bouchet I know nothing about this other than it looks like Italian soft focus nudity and the art is by Sam Peffer - which is more than enough reason for it to be here. |
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Cabaret (1972)
Quad Oscar Release
Liza Minnelli * Michael York One of my guilty pleasures...There seems to be several variations in the iconic art for this movie, this was the slightly more affordable Oscars re-release version. You can tell by the bloody annoying Oscar sticker leaching chemicals all over the original release poster... |
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Sex Life In A Convent
(1972)
The Female Bunch (1969)
Doris Arden * Sascha Hehn * Josef Moosholzer * Ulrich Beiger Russ Tamblyn * Jenifer Bishop * Lon Chaney Jr I'm guessing the experience won't live up to the words for the German nun shocker. I only got it for the other more interesting half of the artwork, which I am sure, likewise, the film won't live up to. |
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England Made Me (1973)
Quad Peter Finch * Michael York * Hildegarde Neil * Joss Ackland * Michael Hordern * Tessa Wyatt Yeah? Me too... |
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Emmanuelle (1974)
Quad Layout: Mike Wheeler Alain Cuny * Sylvia Kristel * Marika Green * Daniel Sarky * Jeanne Colletin * Christine Boisson Caused a bit of a stir in my teenage years but I never saw it, nor any of the many sequels, or even the dodgy Carry On parody. This one is more modest than some of the other famous wicker chair images. |
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French Blue
(1975)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell France Les Bijoux de Famille
Françoise Brion * Corinne O'Brien * Michel Fortin * Jean-Gabriel Nordmann Well, obviously I got this one for the Chantrell image...I know nothing about the film...but I can guess. |
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Soft places (1975)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell A dubious one, a soft core adult movie I believe, there's not even a cast list, never seen it...liked the Chantrell art though. |
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Love
in a Womens Prison (1973) Sins Within
The Family (1975) Quad
Anita Strinberg * Eva Czemerys * Olga Bisera * Jenny Tamburi Michele Placido * Simonetta Stefanelli * Jenny Tamburi Italian exploitation film but I am not 100% sure the IMDB references are right. Definitely the kind of art this site is all about though... |
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The Happy
Hooker (1975)
Quad
Lynn Redgrave * Jean-Pierre Aumont * Lovelady Powell * Tom Poston * Nicholas Pryor Here for the sheer seventiesness of it...her book caused quite a stir but this adaption of Xaviera Hollander's memoirs is pretty tame by all accounts. I dimly remember the talk shows getting all excited about her trick dress which had a pull cord to flash her knickers. Pretty tame underwear too by today's standards... |
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Awakening of Emily (1976)
Quad
Koo Stark * Sarah Brackett * Victor Spinetti * Jane Hayden A soft porn film that would likely have only been known to the DMB except for it's obscure star getting it on with Prince Andrew. So that's why it is here of course. |
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Salon Kitty
(1976)
Quad
Helmut Berger * Ingrid Thulin * Teresa Ann Savoy * John Steiner Interesting if dodgy image, there is also a more explicit version with a chorus line in the background. |
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The Sailor Who
Fell From Grace With The Sea (1976)
Quad
Sarah Miles * Kris Kristofferson * Jonathan Kahn * Margo Cunningham * Earl Rhodes |
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Private Vices and Public
Virtues (1976)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell Italy Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù
Lajos Balázsovits * Pamela Villoresi * Franco Branciaroli * Teresa Ann Savoy * Laura Betti Historical but with lashings of orgies. A Chantrell that shows up frequently on Ebay generally described as rare. Yeah, right. I have just been waiting for prices to get down to something reasonable. This one has a date on it for it's showing at the Prince Charles Cinema for May 26th which makes it 1977 by my calculations. I'm guessing Chantrell had a lot of fun painting all those boobs. |
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Goodbye Norma Jean (1976)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Misty Rowe * Terrence Locke * Patch Mackenzie * Preston Hanson * Marty Zagon * Andre Philippe Everyone should have at least one Marilyn poster, this isn't her but I will keep looking. |
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Desires Within Young Girls (1977)
Quad
Georgina Spelvin * Clair Dia * Annette Haven * John Leslie Brit porn with dodgy artwork...which is why it's here. I guess this is how posters were tarted up to include an awards sticker in the good old days before photoshop. They clearly used an old original poster they had lying around and cut around the main subjects, you can still see jagged scissor marks, fold lines and a ragged tear. Then they photographed it with the awards banner to make a brand new poster for the printers. That means that all those defects are now faithfully reproduced as part of the new artwork...high tech or what? |
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The Betsy (1978)
Quad Laurence Olivier * Robert Duvall * Katharine Ross * Tommy Lee Jones * Jane Alexander * Lesley-Anne Down |
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The Stud (1978)
Quad
Joan Collins * Oliver Tobias * Sue Lloyd Joanies comeback film, amazing what a flash from the over 40's can do for your career. Very 70's soundtrack, even The Sweet trying to piggyback their comeback on it. A blip on the radar of the the declining 70's British film industry so worth a nod even if the poster art is a bit basic. |
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The World is Full of Married Men (1979)
Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Anthony Franciosa * Carroll Baker * Sherrie Lee Cronn * Paul Nicholas * Gareth Hunt * Georgina Hale Jumpsuits? I thought that was 80's...I guess not. |
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The Bitch (1979)
Quad Joan Collins * Michael Coby * Kenneth Haigh * Ian Hendry * Pamela Salem * Sue Lloyd I'm surprised I have never seen this film, John Collins pre-Dynasty, that's got to be worth a look, plus of course the dodgy soundtrack. Follow up to the The Stud, indicated by the inclusion of a clip from the art. |
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
(1979) German Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Quad Art: Jean-Marie Troillard
Hanna Schygulla * Klaus Lowitsch * Ivan Desny * Gisela Uhlen * Elisabeth Trissenaar * Gottfried John Couldn't pass up an image like this... |
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Love,
Lust and Ecstasy (1980)
Quad Greece Erotiki ekstasi
Ajita Wilson * Mireille Damien * Danilo Micheli More Euro-smut that is just here for the image to brighten up your day. Hey, it was cheap... |
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Breaking Glass (1980)
Style A Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Hazel O'Conner * Phil Daniels * Jon Finch I love this movie, punk fairytale with Hazel O'Conner when she seemed so talented for her age. Poster is Chantrell too and captures the essence. |
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Breaking Glass (1980)
Style B Quad Art: Tom Chantrell
Hazel O'Conner * Phil Daniels * Jon Finch
Second version of this movie poster I have, no idea which one was used most originally to promote the film but this is the art you will also see on the UK Soundtrack album. |
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The Great Rock and Roll
Swindle (1980)
Quad
Art: M Hirsch Malcolm McLaren * Steve Jones * Paul Cook * Sid Vicious * John Lydon * Ronald Biggs * Liz Fraser * Mary Millington Urgh, mess of a film with McLaren trying to pretend the rise and fall was all to his cunning plan. Yeah, right, tosser. Saw it because I was a fan and felt I had to, even though I knew it was all bollox going in. Still, an important milestone, so the poster is one I have been very happy to find. Sad to admit I have had the LP since the day it went on release, that was a mess too. The color registration on this is terrible, not sure if it's deliberate or just cheap. You almost need 3D glasses to look at it. |
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Hussy (1980)
Quad Art: Sam Peffer
Helen Mirren * Paul Angelis * Murray Salem * Jenny Runacre * Patti Boulaye * Marika Rivera I know nothing about the movie but like the art for all the usual reasons and the word Hussy; enough s's so you can really hiss it the way your mother would. |
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Lola (1981)
Quad
Barbara Sukowa * Armin Mueller-Stahl * Mario Adorf * Matthias Fuchs * Helga Feddersen * Karin Baal * Ivan Desny * Hark Bohm * Rosel Zech I just dunno what it is about the posters for the Fassbinder films that I like so much but...this one has it too. |
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Nutcracker
(1982)
Quad
Joan Collins * Carol White * Paul Nicholas * Finola Hughes * William Franklyn * Leslie Ash * Cherry Gillespie * Ed Bishop Joan reunited with Paul Nicholas to cement the Bitch typecasting that would serve her well for her third (fourth?) bite of the cherry. |
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Out of Africa - Academy Sticker Release (1985)
Quad
Meryl Streep * Robert Redford * Klaus Maria Brandauer * Michael Kitchen * Malick Bowens Up into the 80's now so the posters get a bit glossier and more photographic than proper canvas art. About where I try to stop more or less. Poster not enhanced by Academy Awards sticker plastered on it. |
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A
Midsummer Nights Dream (1985)
Quad
Lindsay Kemp * Manuela Vargas * Jack Birkett * Michael Matou Shakespear? Wossat doing here? Well, the art's the thing, innit? |
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Sid and Nancy (1986)
Quad
Gary Oldman * Chloe Webb I love punk but never was a big fan of Sid. Still, seeing this whole story unfold during my teenage years made this a movie I had to see. Photographic art though it does capture the look well. |
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Absolute Beginners (1986) Quad Art: Art David Scutt, Design Tracy Drew
Patsy Kensit * Eddie O'Connell * David Bowie * James Fox * Ray Davies * Mandy Rice-Davies * Eve Ferret Talk about over hyped, this was set up by the PTB as the film to save an industry. Sad it turned out to be such a flop. Certainly some interesting ingredients. Just not that good. I do like the poster art though so not a total write off. Hey, it had Eighth Wonder in it, how could it fail? |
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Betty Blue (1986)
Quad
Jean-Hugues Anglade * Béatrice Dalle I should have got the French 37.2 Degrees Le Matin original version for COA, not this reissue. Oh well, I will make do with the Beatrice Dalle image on this one. I also have a subway size version I have yet to photograph properly. |
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Betty Blue
(1986)
Subway
Jean-Hugues Anglade * Béatrice Dalle And the rough picture of the Subway size version which is too big to scan... |
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In Bed
With Madonna (1991)
Quad
Madonna Well I don't really have a category for this...but it's certainly full of drama. Not entirely unconnected with what this site is all about even if the poster art is just a big ol' photo. |
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