post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

would buy this thread as a coffee table book btw

mort drucker, sam viviano, jack davis are the kings of this shit

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This is super OTM but it immediately made me think of Dick DeBartolo, who you'd think would've been similarly in demand but I can't find information about him ever having done a movie poster. If anyone discovers otherwise, though, it's surefire fodder for this thread.

http://www.rockpopmem.com/images/products/square/64350.jpg

wikipedia attempts to explain:

I've Gotta Horse was Billy Fury's second hit feature film and as well as a number of human stars including Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin and Jon Pertwee and pop bands The Gamblers and The Bachelors it featured his own race horse Anselmo as well as several of his own dogs in a musical comedy...Based on the star's famous love of animals, this musical comedy portrays Billy setting out to add a sheepdog to his vast entourage of animals and coming back with an irresistible horse named Armitage instead. To his manager's horror, Billy smuggles the horse backstage during rehearsals for his big show and the horse proceeds to create havoc. Little do either of them know that Armitage is actually a thoroughbred racehorse. Then Billy's horse contracts pneumonia and Billy must choose between love of his horse and the big show.

the films titular song is pretty catchy: https://youtu.be/urYHt3J0WkQ

huh, yeah, that's pretty good. guy's really glad to have a horse. movie writes itself really.

conspicuous lack of horses on the poster.

Secondarily, this thread is a great reminder of just how many terrible, forgettable and forgotten films Hollywood has put out during every era.

Seriously. I was browsing the Wikipedia page for 1960-something in film and I was like, wtf even are most of these highest grossing movies from 1960-something? Try explaining to your grandchildren what a Fast 5 was.

Wasn't Dick DeBartolo more of a writer than an artist?

yes, Old Lunch is thinking of Angelo Torres maybe?

Torres is no Drucker or Davis

American Graffiti got posted very early in this thread, but this Spanish-language version is a different, equally claustrophobic design:

http://i2.listal.com/image/137254/936full-american-graffiti-poster.jpg

^^With a major spoiler in the lower righthand corner (and also hey hey I went and saw this film projected in 35mm for the first time tonight!)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/hog-wild-movie-poster-1980-1020240910.jpg

http://www.outoftheaters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/movie-poster_The-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three.jpg

wow, nice

http://i.imgur.com/EdfJljv.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com//mother-jugs-and-speed-movie-poster-1020215182.jpg

time has not been kind to that poster

http://www.80smovieposters.com/4061/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/finders-keepers-movie-poster-1984-1020340348.jpg

Oh, that's first-rate! Right down to proudly announcing its very solidly B- and C-list leads at the top. Looks like real Cannonball Run stuff - I have to assume that the cutaways to the two roller-derby girls are particularly tedious.

http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/bingo_long_traveling_all_stars_and_motor_kings_xlg.jpg

Woah - just watched that last week.

Is it good? Always wanted to see it.

I'm on zing, so can't see properly, but if Grisso's last one isn't Davis, it's an excellent imitation

Definitely Davis

Bingo Long - which it turns out I posted itt two years ago when I picked up the tape that I just now finally watched! - is okay-ish, maybe even good. Williams and Jones are really convincing. There's a basic difficulty of telling the story of this roadshow team, which was forced to resort to minstrel-esque performances in games against white home teams, as a comedy. It doesn't ignore the indignities suffered by the players, and pays lip service to some of them (particularly Jones as the Du Bois and Marx-quoting veteran player) taking issue with the strategy. But so much screen time is given over to the over-the-top scheming Negro League owner and other plotty bits of business that the movie can't really wrestle with the subject matter. But if you're just looking for a period sports movie with a lot of montages, and some really likable lead performances, it's all right. (I'm also a suburban white guy born in 1981, so I might relate to the film very differently than its original target audience did.) Standard 1970s warnings re: sexism apply.

ty, dc

Bingo Long makes a surprising appearance in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: Apparently Spielberg was attached to direct, mainly as a power play to get a film he really wanted to do (Close Encounters, iirc) made.

Oof, I'm glad that didn't happen. I like Spielberg, but 1941 doesn't inspire confidence that he would have handled comedy, or racially charged material, with any deftness early in his career.

A NSFW addition for Googlers: the German poster for Up The Creek - Das Turbogeile Gummiboot - is redrawn for the style of this thread.

this one?

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292/adamrsbeales/gummiboot_1.jpg

oh nice work - i couldn't find a large-size version sans nipples.

RIP Jack Davis :(

lol the nipple version of Das Turbogeile Gummiboot is really worth seeing

and not for the reason you might think!

RIP

http://bakertoons.tumblr.com/post/94824492069/in-a-way-this-is-a-follow-up-to-mads

Three Cornered Pitney

I remember seeing that in MAD as a kid!

That image with the cat in particular was burned in memory.

It looks so annoyed!

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/10041/p10041_p_v8_aa.jpg

Happy Hour (1987)

oops

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/10041/p10041_p_v8_aa.jpg

One of the better of the latter-day airbrush school, I think.

struzan rulez so hard

http://i.imgur.com/7g5fGe1.jpg

truly an all-star cast

Directed By: BERT CONVY

Lloyd Bridges must've built the last 20 years of his career on playing the befuddled officer/straight man in all these movies

Yeah I was thinking about that, this was after Airplane! and before Hot Shots!

Look how happy Belzer is!

http://i.imgur.com/cVXCOd7.jpg

Just saw a Carson rerun on Antenna wherein Tim Conway plugs this film I (rightfully) never heard of...

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5N3RP/the-prize-fighter-from-left-tim-conway-don-knotts-1979-E5N3RP.jpg