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Assorted 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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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.

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.

Betty Grable * Dan Dailey * Mona Freeman * Connie Marshall * Vanessa Brown * Robert Arthur * Sara Allgood * William Frawley

According to the poster, mother wore a lot of kitty's...yes, I think there is a joke in there Mrs Slocombe would be proud of, but I can't be bothered.

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.

Dan Dailey * Joanne Dru * Richard Hylton * Richard Crenna * Hugh Sanders * James Brown * Leo T Cleary

Baseball biopic in Day-Glo orange.

Jennifer Jones * Robert Stack * Kipp Hamilton * Robert Douglas

Vivien Leigh * Kenneth More * Eric Portman * Emlyn Williams

Weird eyes...

Julie Harris * James Dean * Raymond Massey * Burl Ives * Richard Davalos * Jo Van Fleet

Looks like a contemporary reissue and companion to Rebel Without A Cause to me, don't know from which year though.

James Dean * Natalie Wood * Sal Mineo * Jim Backus * Ann Doran * Corey Allen

Well, clearly not the original release poster and I don't know what date this reissue is. Still, nice image.

Betty Davies * Richard Todd * Joan Collins * Jay Robinson * Herbert Marshall * Dan O'Herlihy

Dodgy US version of Brit history.

Olivia de Havilland * Gilbert Roland * Paul Scofield * Françoise Rosay * Dennis Price * Anthony Dawson * Robert Harris * Christopher Lee

Costume drama, I haven't seen it so it may be mis-categorized but what the hey. It's got a good picture of Olivia De Havilland with an eye patch, argh, but nothing to do with pirates..

Ray Milland * Ernest Borgnine * Dean Jagger * Frank Lovejoy * Nina Foch

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.

Jean Simmons * Guy Madison * Jean Pierre Aumont * Judith Evelyn * Evelyn Varden * Peggy Knudsen * Greg Palmer

Jean Simmons having a bit of a lie down.

Tyrone Power * Kim Novak * Victoria Shaw * James Whitmore * Rex Thompson

It's an old poster but it has an insane number of pin holes along every edge, mainly cropped out here but it must have had a hard life.

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.

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.

Fred Astaire * Cyd Charisse * Janis Paige * Peter Lorre * George Tobias

I don't know who the arist is for this but I love that they put subtle pokies on the profile of Cyd Charisse's bust.

Tyrone Power * Ava Gardner * Mel Ferrer * Errol Flynn * Eddie Albert * Juliette Greco

Frenchmen in berets and scarves? Where are the onions?

James Mason * Joan Fontaine * Dorothy Dandridge * Joan Collins * Michael Rennie * Harry Belafonte * Diana Wynyard * John Williams * Stephen Boyd

Quite a controversial movie when it came out, getting right to the nitty gritty of interracial love in the sand while the US was still getting over the "Separate but Equal" travesty finally falling apart just three years before. Although this Quad is Chantrell's work, it is a fairly close copy of Jock Hinchliffe's US 1 Sheet with some of the figures re-painted in mirrored poses.

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. Although this is a photo montage, the is credited with being Tom Chantrell's work.

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.

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? The Chantrell attribution come from http://www.chantrellposter.com/

Dick Contino * Sandra Giles * Bruno VeSota * Gloria Victor * Jack McClure

I am guessing this is one of those anti-beatnik perils of modern youth dramas based on the poster and the original US title.

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.

Esther Williams * Jeff Chandler * Rossana Podestà * Carlos Thompson * Rik Battaglia * Eduardo De Filippo

I wonder if she swims in this one?

Paul Newman * Joanne Woodward * Anthony Franciosa * Orson Welles * Lee Remick * Angela Lansbury

Bad boy, girl next door, dodgy hat.

Shirley Booth * Anthony Quinn * Shirley MacLaine * Earl Holliman

Uninspiring art but then again it's another free one, it was actually used as packaging for a much nicer poster that was sent to me.

Dirk Bogarde * Yoko Tani * Ronald Lewis * John Fraser

Patrick McGoohan * Michael Craig * Anna Gaylor * Belinda Lee

Don't step in the...urgh, too late, bloody elephants...

Robert Preston * Dorothy McGuire * Eve Arden * Angela Lansbury

Carol Lynley * Jeff Chandler * Eleanor Parker * Mary Astor * Robert Sterling * Luciana Paluzzi * Brett Halsey * Gunnar Hellstrom * Tuesday Weld

From books, to movies to a TV series that was the original suburban sin soap.

Richard Beymer * Diane Baker * Corinne Calvet * Fred Clark * Dan Dailey * Arthur Kennedy * Ricardo Montalban * Paul Newman * Susan Strasberg * Jessica Tandy * Eli Wallach * Edward Binns

Short stories pieced together into coming of age narrative.

Laurence Harvey * Capucine * Jane Fonda * Anne Baxter * Barbara Stanwyck

Kim Novak * Laurence Harvey * Robert Morley * Siobhan McKenna * Roger Livesey * Jack Hedley * Nanette Newman * Ronald Lacey

Bondage eh? Nah, it's the emotional kind, love and obsession amongst those laugh a minute Victorians.

Deborah Kerr * Hayley Mills * John Mills * Edith Evans

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.

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.

Suzanne Pleshette * Bradford Dillman * Ben Gazzara * Peter Graves

I appreciate the extra complexity of art featuring a mirror...

Claudia Cardinale * Jean Sorel * Michael Craig * Renzo Ricci * Fred Williams

Great title...

Hana Brejchová * Vladimír Pucholt * Vladimír Mensík * Ivan Kheil * Jirí Hrubý

Czechoslovakian B&W film that I have never seen called "Lásky jedné plavovlásky", try saying that after your 4th (or even first) pint. Nice art in my opinion though, despite the watery smudge in top left.

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.

April Wilding * Pauline Collins * Renee Houston * Derek Bond * Harry Fowler * Howard Marion-Crawford * Peter Gordeno * Peter Swanwick * Martin Jarvis

A "Windmill Theater Girl" would have been associated by the audience of the day with showgirls, revues and living naked statues (what?) but in case there was any doubt, let's have a picture of Pauline Collins in her undies. This film is not un-related to Primitive London above, and uses some of it outtakes as stock footage for the real Windmill Girls. I was a No, Honestly fan in the 70's but Pauline didn't really get 'em off until Shirley Valentine.

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".

Brigitte Bardot * Laurent Terzieff * Jean Rochefort * James Robertson Justice * Michael Sarne * Georgina Ward * Carole Lebel

Always very hard to resist a Euro glamor icon of the 60's like Bardot.

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.

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.

Barbara Parkins * Patty Duke * Paul Burke * Sharon Tate * Tony Scotti * Martin Milner * Charles Drake* Alex Davion * Lee Grant * Naomi Stevens * Robert H. Harris * Susan Hayward

Big old giant pill in case you weren't sure what the Doll in the title was. The blurb on the bottom right goes out of its way to tell you resemblance to living or dead is coincidental but of course that is exactly what you are supposed to infer, these are real Hollywood types popping pills to get through the trials of celebrity.

Anne Bancroft * Dustin Hoffman * Katharine Ross

Classic movie, poster with the classic image, even if a double bill and likely re-release.

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.

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.

Rod Taylor * Claudia Cardinale * Harry Guardino * Kevin McCarthy * Pete Deuel * William Marshall * Don Knight

The US art for this is much more impressive in it's original full colour, this version is stripped down to a virtually monochrome charcoal copy.

Michèle Mercier * Richard Johnson * John Mills * Harald Leipnitz * Claudio Undari * Robert Hundar * Mirco Ellis * Nadja Tiller

Putting the Blind Eye gag in at the top to lure a few punters in to thinking it's a historical comedy sex romp.

Elizabeth Taylor * Mia Farrow * Robert Mitchum * Peggy Ashcroft

Carroll Baker * Jean Sorel * Evelyn Stewart

Arty melodrama that promises more smut than it delivers, nice poster though.

Anouk Aimée * Dirk Bogarde * Robert Forster * Anna Karina * Philippe Noiret * Michael York

One of those films known for it's behind the scenes dramas more than the on screen one. Difficult stars, change of directors and locations all helped drag it down.

Maggie Smith * Robert Stephens * Pamela Franklin * Gordon Jackson * Celia Johnson

The banner pasted across the top by the local cinema has a presentation date that suggest this was during it's 1970's re-release, after Maggie Smith got an Oscar for it, and it was shown as a Royal Command Performance..

Documentary

Back in the 60's, smutty documentaries were a good way of sneaking foreign soft core into the UK. This one is allegedly about Denmark's sexual attitudes, to be shown at various Private cinemas for the Men in Mac's.

Paul Newman * Joanne Woodward * Robert Wagner * Richard Thomas * David Sheiner * Clu Gulager

Interesting artwork, looks like crayon to me but I guess intended to give a speed blur effect.

Anthony Quinn * Virna Lisi * Hardy Kruger * Stergio Franchi * Anna Magnani

Another good rendering of Anthony Quinn.

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.

George C. Scott * Susannah York * Ian Bannen * Jack Hawkins * Nyree Dawn Porter

I honestly can't remember why I bought this poster for the TV Movie adaptation, it's not exactly my usual style. Maybe those English Lit classes made an impression after all, thanks Mrs. Moony...

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.

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?

Jenny Agutter * Lucien John * David Gumpilil * John Meillon * Robert McDara * Peter Carver

Minimalist and moody, loved this when I first saw it. Obviously worth seeing for a Jenny Agutter, but she was an older woman to me at the time. A very 70's film, so you know it doesn't have to have a happy ending or be PC, that keeps the preconceptions off the table. Not signed so I can't say who the artist is, but since Agutter's pubescent boobs are enhanced in the poster, I am guessing Chantrell.

Friedrich von Thun * Rena Bergen * Kurt Bülau

Cheri Caffaro * Aharon Ipalé * Vic Diaz * Corinne Calvet

Exploitation double bill probably dating from the sometime after the second films release date. Hm, all of that was blindingly obvious wasn't it? According to IMDB one is a dodgy dubbed German documentary with gratuitous sex and the other is a American-Philippino kung fu killer bimbo adventure. Can you work out which is which? My version was quite torn up too, have people no respect for cinema history?

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.

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.

Margaret Rose Keil * Malisa Longo

Another dodgy foreign smut fest for the private cinema market, using the catchpenny reference to Pasolini's Decameron. The original 1971 Decameron poster is high on my wish list as one of the images I spotted pasted to fences that got me into this hobby. Meanwhile, this one has boobs.

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...

Raquel Welch * Kevin McCarthy * Helena Kallianiotes * Norman Alden * Jeanne Cooper * Mary Kay Pass * Jodie Foster

Here not only because I will buy anything with Raquel on it, but also, my daughter is in Roller Derby too. I am very proud of her.

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.

Karin Gotz * Josef Frohlich * Rosl Mayr * Achim Neumann * Marlene Rahn * Josef Moosholzer * Sonja Jeanine* Rinaldo Talamonti

Doris Arden * Karin Götz * Evelyne Traeger

Another double bill of foreign smut titled to titillate the trembling Mac troupe.

Peter Finch * Michael York * Hildegarde Neil * Joss Ackland * Michael Hordern * Tessa Wyatt

Yeah? Me too...

Malcolm McDowell * Ralph Richardson * Rachel Roberts * Arthur Lowe * Helen Mirren * Graham Crowden * Peter Jeffrey * Dandy Nichols * Warren Clarke * Bill Owen * Michael Medwin * Geoffrey Palmer

Allegedly a comedy, I am putting it here in Drama because it's not funny and if I ever get my hands on the first of this Trilogy, If..., then that's where it will be be categorized too. I loved If...but this is an arty incoherent mess, just like the third installment Britannia Hospital  would prove to be. It seems Lindsay Anderson really should have left it with the one good movie. Good to see a Bren gun makes it into the poster though, another If... leftover.

David Essex * Ringo Starr * Rosemary Leach * James Booth * Billy Fury * Keith Moon * Rosalind Ayres * Brenda Bruce * Robert Lindsay * Deborah Watling * Karl Howman * Sue Holderness

Not only do I remember the movie coming out, I also remember the Ronco advertising campaign for the soundtrack, also featured on this poster. Actually not a bad movie with quite a good depiction of the transition from 50's to 60's which would continue into "Stardust". David Essex isn't bad either, though his character becomes a bit of an a-hole. Ringo is quite good and there are some nice 70's TV faces making their initial outings.

Ann Michelle * Julian Barnes * Dudley Foster * Anna Quayle * Anthony Sharp * Rosemarie Dunham * Derek Fowlds

A late addition to the Tom Jones genre.

Ellen Burstyn * Alfred Lutter * Billy Green Bush * Harvey Keitel * Diane Ladd

Occasionally posters just get given to me. Can't complain, it's a lot cheaper than the usual method. A bit beaten up, lots of tape and since the Oscar is there most likely a reprint. Still free though.

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.

David Essex * Adam Faith * Larry Hagman * Ines Des Longchamps * Rosalind Ayres * Marty Wilde * Keith Moon * Dave Edmunds * Paul Nicholas * Karl Howman

Carrying on where That'll Be The Day left off, the rise and fall of David Essex's acting career. Actually, both that and this sequel were not at all bad for capturing the mood of the days they were supposed to represent.

Sirpa Lane * Michel Duchaussoy * Mathieu Carrière * Roger Vadim

Marco Kröger * Katja Bienert * Ingeborg Steinbach * Walter Plumhoff

Since Charlotte is 1974 and Virgin is 1979 this clearly isn't a first release poster. The second dead give a way is the specious translation of the Foreign titles into standard English smut keywords. Charlotte is in reality a pretentious thriller, The Assassinated Young Girl, but here it just emphasizes the main characters name linked to Diary of a Nymphomaniac. The German effort is about teenagers hanging out at a train station, with to be fair some sex and drugs, but none of that is evident from teh poster art. Not that I am complaining, but I do find it funny that back in the days when the only porn films were in Private Members Cinemas, you actually have to sit through some bad but "real" films to see a little sex. VCR's brought porn into homes and the Internet now means you only have to get off the couch to get more tissues.

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.

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.

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...

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...

Don Powell * Jim Lea * Noddy Holder * Dave Hill * Tom Conti * Alan Lake

Well, poster I have been looking for all over. I remember the Ad's on TV for this but have never managed to see it.

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.

Sarah Miles * Kris Kristofferson * Jonathan Kahn * Margo Cunningham * Earl Rhodes

Angela Yu Chen * Suzie May Wong * Mailing Chang * Patty Putpun * Roman Huber * Michel Jacot * Heinz Kopitz * Claude Martin

Something very odd about those nose cone boobs with the concentric rings...this is an Erwin C. Dietrich exploitation smut fest, if you hadn't guessed, marketed through multiple releases under different titles and varying spelling of the stars names.

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.

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.

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?

Sylvia Kristel * Umberto Orsini * Jean-Pierre Bouvier

Harlee McBride * Peter Ratray * William Beckley

Katsunori Hirose * Mitsuyaso Mainu * Midori Otani

I really need to start a dedicated section for smut...clearly these are not really "dramas". In fact, I'm not even 100% sure they are what the title says. Dirty movies were always having their titles changed to hitch their wagon to the phenomenon of the day - like Emmanuelle. Although, Emmanuelle III does legitimately have Sylvia Kristel in it, if that's what this is.

Koo Stark * Martin Potter * Lydia Lisle * Katherine Kath

Well, we have actors with alliterative names and Koo Stark, hm...soft porn? Yep, probably, but it's home grown Brit smut so you know it will be a disappointment.

Michael York * Hidemi Aoki * Peter Jones * Charles Gray

John Travolta * Karen Lynn Gorney * Barry Miller * Joseph Cali * Paul Pape * Donna Pescow

Before it became a teeny bop sensation focused on the BG's reincarnation as wannabe disco stars, it was actually a good movie, X-rated no less. This is the poster for that version, the one I saw with it's gritty story of racism, rape and unrequited dreams. It's interesting that his discarded original dance partner "Annette" is pictured on the poster, the one I would have stuck with personally, but she didn't didn't make the credits text. It was re-released as an A rated version without the grit so more teenagers could be exposed to RSO's music thinking that's what adult discos actually played back then.

Laurence Olivier * Robert Duvall * Katharine Ross * Tommy Lee Jones * Jane Alexander * Lesley-Anne Down

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.

Anthony Franciosa * Carroll Baker * Sherrie Lee Cronn * Paul Nicholas * Gareth Hunt * Georgina Hale

Jumpsuits? I thought that was 80's...I guess not.

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.

Hanna Schygulla * Klaus Lowitsch * Ivan Desny * Gisela Uhlen * Elisabeth Trissenaar * Gottfried John

Couldn't pass up an image like this...

Malcolm McDowell * Teresa Ann Savoy * Guido Mannari * John Gielgud * Peter O'Toole * Giancarlo Badessi * Bruno Brive * Adriana Asti * John Steiner * Mirella Dangelo * Helen Mirren

Not a great scan of this poster, dark background colours always give me a problem. Quite a notorious film in it's day, Gielgud wondering if had accidentally made a porn film. The poster art is classic but tame which might have reassured until he saw it. There are some much more interesting Italian versions around that focus more on the orgy that was a cause of outrage on its release.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Essex * Beau Bridges * Cristina Raines * Clarke Peters * Harry H. Corbett * Diane Keen * Lee Montague * Sheila White * Ed Bishop * T.P. McKenna

Last movie I remember Essex being in after he decided he wanted to be an actor, although he did eventually make it to Eastenders. This is not exactly a true story, but the bike was real enough and was revolutionary for its day, the Barton Suzuki 350 being used as a prototype for the Buell company in America.

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.

Stacy Keach * Pia Zadora * Orson Welles * Edward Albert * James Franciscus * Stuart Whitman * June Lockhart * Ed McMahon

Pia Zadora was all over the papers in the 80's, thanks to her dodgy financier husband, twice her age, shoe horning her into films that he funded and then bribed awards committees to say were great. Were they any good? No, but she did have a photogenic pout.

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.

Mariel Hemingway * Eric Roberts * Cliff Robertson * Carroll Baker * Roger Rees

One of a couple of movies made about poor Dorothy Stratten, exploited and murdered by her deadbeat boyfriend after her success as a Playmate.

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.

Lindsay Kemp * Manuela Vargas * Jack Birkett * Michael Matou

Shakespear? Wossat doing here? Well, the art's the thing, innit?

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.

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?

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.

Jean-Hugues Anglade * Béatrice Dalle

And the rough picture of the Subway size version which is too big to scan...

Robert Arkins * Michael Aherne * Angeline Ball * Maria Doyle Kennedy * Dave Finnegan * Bronagh Gallagher * Félim Gormley * Glen Hansard * Dick Massey * Johnny Murphy * Kenneth McCluskey * Andrew Strong * Colm Meaney * Anne Kent * Andrea Corr

A cast of unknowns, a not terribly what this site is about poster and it's much too recent anyway. What the hell, I love this film.

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.

Gretchen Mol * Chris Bauer * Jared Harris * Sarah Paulson * Cara Seymour

I always feel slightly guilty buying modern posters and usually only give in if they are cheap enough. I think the image is at home here though.