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

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Angel in My Pocket (1969)

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1416/8662/products/happy_birthday_gemini_original_film_art.jpg

Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)

I like how Angel in My Pocket is only a few years earlier than a lot of the movies itt yet it looks like its from a whole other era.

Plot synopsis for Happy Birthday, Gemini:

Based on the off-Broadway smash of the 1970's; a poor Harvard student's romance with a girl hits a rough spot when he realizes, on his 21st birthday, that he's in love with her brother.

I actually read something about that movie a few years ago that made it sound really interesting, but I couldn't locate the movie itself anywhere. The very fact of a gay adolescent film existing in this era gives me hope that it's better than it's Animal House-y poster implies.

There's something utterly hypnotic about these posters. Drawn caricature invokes a whole lost social world, no?

And like, people doing a caricature of something implies it is a thing of note and substance, so it's extra strange to see it applied to cheap, tits 'n' ass comedy films

Special Appearance Steve Brodie as Jack Enoff

I think that's the third time Gemini has popped up here, but I'm always pleased by the poster. I feel like 80s All Over did cover this one already and I can't remember anything they said about it. Which might not mean anything but... hm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bus#/media/File:Big_bus_film.jpg

I actually read something about that movie a few years ago that made it sound really interesting, but I couldn't locate the movie itself anywhere.

I think someone's uploaded the whole thing to YouTube, a common factor among all the movies in this thread.

Not that busy, but in crossover with The Leftovers thread:

http://www.nightowlbooks.com/frasier1-sheet.jpg

http://media.hollywood.com/images/580x879/3743129.jpg

I don't think this was posted yet... sorry if it was...
http://i.imgur.com/27LsTuf.jpg

eh never mind Doc beat me

Saw this one outside the MFAH theatre this weekend.

https://cdn.traileraddict.com/content/unknown/harold-lillian-hollywood-love-story.jpg

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

i hate the look on that fucking lions face

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81WAEX%2BnWBL._SY679_.jpg

Senior Trip (1981)

Over in dense adventure thriller land:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yw0soiS5Z14/T1aMOtoiarI/AAAAAAAABLg/MqEMfh-T_EU/s1600/colossus2.jpg

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

http://www.englishscholar.com/amst1/westworldposter2.jpg

Westworld (1973)

80s All Over delivers the goods again:

http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/940e0f89-a6e0-40a6-b3f5-ff38561b2bd9.jpg

Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)

"Directed by John Schlesinger"

I was about to write that this must be the sore thumb of his career, but I just noticed that he also made The Next Best Thing and The Believers. Weird.

They also report that it was a serious, serious money-loser for the studio, striking when the poster suggests the entire enterprise began with the low-budget logic of this kind of would-be screwball farce. They hypothesize that loading up on seasoned character actors adds up, budget-wise, but I wonder if there's more to it.

some imdb trivia entries:

When released, its $24 million budget made it the most expensive comedy ever produced. It was a major failure at the box office.

Wikipedia states: "Just before the film was released, EMI sold the ancillary rights under this scheme to German investors in need of a tax loss, in an effort to try to recoup their $11,000,000 loss. When the movie's distributors learned this fact, they were no longer financially motivated to distribute the movie widely and consequently released the film for only one week".

According to Pulse the Magazine, "the film had been fraught with problems, from a disjointed script to its title - and marketing that implied it was just '...another car crash comedy romp'. This was compounded by the producers' decision to sell the video rights before Universal Pictures agreed to release the film. Angered by this, Universal minimized their marketing support and limited the number of theaters in which the film was shown. Withdrawn from theaters just a week after its release, the movie disappeared".

and

Originally planned with a $2-3 million budget, the film's costs ultimately ballooned to $25 million.

oh man, that is an even better, and yet more utterly banal, string of blunders than i'd hoped for

everything about that is incredible.

I don't think this was posted but I did a ctrl-f for "shirtless lewis j. stadlin" and nothing showed up so I guess not.

http://i.imgur.com/AZx7IpG.jpg

and SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES!

Is there an imgur gallery of all these yet

http://img.moviepostershop.com/bye-bye-braverman-movie-poster-1968-1020252528.jpg

Bye Bye Braverman, 1968

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr332/rdimucci/Movie%20Posters%20-%20Video%20Covers/KingdomIntheClouds2-small.jpg

Kingdom In The Clouds

https://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/caveman-movie-poster.jpg

Caveman (1981)

http://www.nordicposters.com/p2/back_to_school_86.jpg

Back To School (1986)

did this one already show up? Robin Williams' screen debut

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-ojUc4zdRtAY%2FU-yFlpJN95I%2FAAAAAAAABMg%2FLHPecCjKC5E%2Fs1600%2FCan%252BI%252Bdo%252Bit%252Btill%252BI%252Bneed%252Bglasses%252Bcover.jpg&f=1

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5XspmtM4Ykc/WX9dNHdsbHI/AAAAAAAAM04/cMIDd9lWEvsTlcBtYwZ3uVI00zyzGUqcwCLcBGAs/s640/Alice%2BGoodbody.jpg

Alice Goodbody (1974), once again with a tip of the hat to Every 70s Movie.

http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieF)__WhoopsApocalypse(2).jpg

Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

a title for our age

Seinfeld/Young Ones M*A*S*H* up.

https://www.cinematerial.com/media/posters/md/vy/vyrdc8bf.jpg?v=1456439994

a.k.a. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe

http://img.moviepostershop.com/kentucky-fried-movie-movie-poster-1977-1010740515.jpg

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59a9ca4dd82660397c5ace67/master/w_813,c_limit/170911_r30495.jpg

When's that movie coming out?

Want to frame this one.

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/1825/p1825_p_v8_aa.jpg

Not the usual comedic genre, nor any caricature, but there are lots of little people:

http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1357253757.jpg

(The Long Duel - 1967)

Two-page print ad for Cheers, run ahead of the premiere:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uU59O_F7ONc/WcjAz6CejMI/AAAAAAAAawQ/khWjpAIpZewMjiOlI78ddjdMktZswo2fwCLcBGAs/s1600/cheers820930.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/3e/73/453e73d31aa26f60f3ee8df820929615.jpg

ABC advert from the 80s (I think the art is by Mad magazine's Sam Viviano?)

Yeah that looks like Viviano's stuff.

https://panandslam.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/licence-to-kill-poster.jpg

Just saw this one for Blue Collar (1978) today. Had heard about Universal's botched campaign to hookwink viewers into thinking this was a Richard Pryor comedy...that's some comedy they got there...

http://img.moviepostershop.com/blue-collar-movie-poster-1978-1020542692.jpg

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5NB8D/the-fortune-from-left-warren-beatty-stockard-channing-jack-nicholson-E5NB8D.jpg

The Fortune (1975)

And yes, I did see indicator's January '18 release list!