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

in the george and mildred, i'm sure they meant for the officer (?) to look like he's crashing his bike, but it looks more like he's pulling some badass freestyle move.

nb to most of the world: andrew's three excellent contributions are all big-screen spinoffs of 1970s UK TV sitcoms

hahaha, on George & Mildred:

Released [weeks] after the death of star Yootha Joyce, the film was neither a commercial nor a critical success. One critic has described the film as "one of the worst films ever made in Britain . . . so strikingly bad, it seems to have been assembled with a genuine contempt for its audience." A writer for The Guardian stated that the film's failure marked "the death knell" for the 1970s British practice of producing motion picture spinoffs based on sitcoms. The film aired on television on Christmas Day 1980, only a couple of months after its theatrical release.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Are_you_being_served_320x240.jpg

Are You Being Served: The Movie, 1977

what does NRC stand for? Not Recommended Cinema?!

Not Recommended for Children. Replaced with PGR in the early '80s, later shortened to PG.

love how every name on that poster is presumably a household name in britain but to american eyes appears to be the work of a hack comic generating fake british names

they were sort-of household names from appearing in the popular sitcom of the same name, which has probably been rescreened 923x more often in the US than the UK over the last 45 years

Yeah, Are You Being Served ran on Houston PBS regularly for like 20 years. For awhile in the '90s it was on five nights a week!

apologies to sugden & bannister, LLC

Sugden Bannister & English

I was just trying to think of what someone in the states would know them from aside from AYBS, and...

All I got is Nicholas Smith voicing the vicar in the Wallace & Gromit movie, and Frank Thornton is in Richard Lester's It's Trad, Dad for about 30 seconds...which reminds me that Wendy Richard got cut out of Help!

Writer Jeremy Lloyd was on Laugh-In.

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The Vals, 1983

Apparently was remarketed as The Valley Girls after Valley Girl hit.

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Vicious Lips, 1986

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTk3NDAxY2UtZjBiZS00MzhkLTgxYzktNzRmMzNmMGUxY2ZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

Hot T-Shirts, 1980

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C.O.D., 1981 (cast also includes Samantha Fox and Ron Jeremy)

Oops

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODQ5ODk2NDc1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzM3ODQzNA@@._V1_.jpg

An Albert Pyun joint and *two* Chuck Vincents! The thread continues to deliver!!

And all it took was IMDB'ing Gwen Verdon, seeing she had a role in a TV sequel to The Jerk, clicking on it and falling in a 'More Like This' clickhole.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BN2ZmMWQyOWUtMzFjYi00ODAwLThlZWQtZTY4NzYzYWUwNDliXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_SY999_CR0,0,657,999_AL_.jpg

Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)

Leonard Maltin likes that movie one-star better than Taxi Driver.

RIP Robert Forster

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The Kinky Coaches And The Pom-Pom Pussycats (AKA Heartbreak High), 1981

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Chattanooga Choo Choo, 1984

https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/55638.jpg

The Happy Thieves (1961)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWUzOTQ0MzAtODIyNy00OWQyLWE5YmUtZmZmYjBlMWExMDNjL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_UY1200_CR78,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

The Boyfriend (1971)

https://static-batch.greatbigcanvas.com/images/print_rolled_posterpaper/movie-goods/the-phantom-tollbooth-1970,mg0081711.jpg

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/12/A70-6334

Scrooge (1971)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518eFjS%2BqlL.jpg

Black Caesar (1973)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/122/MPW-61037

Electra Glide In Blue (1973)

A+

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/10/A70-5484

The Monkey Hu$tle, 1976

Dunno if my favourite Star Wars posters from Burger King are admissible:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71xrinlwCrL._SL1500_.jpg

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/2UmiFVWnbZWQjGldZnamA0YyLbq.jpg

Beyond Atlantis (1973)

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/koNb0rW69NkviReVYkb6G8uquWD.jpg

The Big Bird Cage (1972)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTc1YWY0ZmYtNGM5Ni00MmEwLThjZWItMjFkMTczM2MwZDY4L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_UY1200_CR81,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

Come Back Charleston Blue, 1972

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/bZcnDABBorrLtIe1NTMci1u09rc.jpg

Norman...Is That You? (1976)

oops.

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/bZcnDABBorrLtIe1NTMci1u09rc.jpg

those both look like McGinnis, y/n?

RIP Michael J. Pollard

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https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/1/avg/cov310/drv000/v004/v00478kugja.jpg

America, 1986

https://www.limitedruns.com/media/cache/3b/00/3b00ccbb279a9153e4238574b4168539.jpg

The Legend of Frenchie King, 1971

[img>https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/012hbrooks12.jpg[/img]

Hannibal Brooks, 1969

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/012hbrooks12.jpg

Hadn't seen this one before, done in the style of the outsider artist in the film.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUxNjIyMTEwN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjE1NzAzMQ@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg

Junebug, 2005

Do the credits at the bottom of America list Robert Downey as "the director of Putney Swope"? I've never seen that in the little credit box before

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The Merry Frinks (1934).

beautiful

Must have been trying to harness anew the undeniable Kibbee/MacMahon chemistry that enchanted us all in Gold Diggers of 1933.

early example of 1337 speak

GDo1933 is fantastic, tho that's mostly down to the script and obv the production numbers. but hmm!

over in the "retro" category:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzllMmJiYTYtYTg5My00NTZmLTk3ZTEtNzkxNjg1NTc5ZDc2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjA4MDcwOTI@._V1_.jpg

Dig That, Zeebo Newton (2018)

RIP Sue Lyon

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQjvLSKEcpd4W_oBnYjhGM9orlGySsu3ui5XKGplqX8ipvwkYA9

Towing, 1978

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/372824494350_/CRASH-Sue-Lyon-Jose-Ferrer-Original-FF-1976.jpg

Crash!, 1976

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/fb/ef/b5/fbefb5e439865b967d4e858be5fb4d05.jpg

Bon Voyage, 1962

https://cdn.cinematerial.com/p/297x/tq8vfqmc/scumbag-movie-poster-md.jpg?v=1462872884

Scumbag, 2017

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTBlODg3ODgtMzdhMi00MzM0LTk1MTYtMDRhNmQ5NDAwN2QwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,643,1000_AL_.jpg

Cracking Up (1977)

I'm frankly amazed that *this* Cracking Up (aka Smorgasbord, 1983) doesn't also have a busy etc poster:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81cfrDeJZrL._RI_.jpg

"mirthquake" haha