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

The title lettering does kinda make you want to watch the movie and use it as a bingo card.

IT'S FOR EVERYONE!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGUzOTM3MTgtYzFkMi00ODQxLTlkZTYtYmNjZjY1ODk2MDhmXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE5MjUyOTM@._V1_UY1200_CR85,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
The Daydreamer, 1966

Wow. Jack Gilford and Marget Hamilton made me smile, couldn’t quite place The Pieman until I peeked below.

I just happened to be looking up a film from somewhere upthread called One More Time (directed by Jerry Lewis), and came across this doozy in the plot synopsis:

London nightclub buddies Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) and Pepper (Peter Lawford) link Pepper’s dead twin to diamond smugglers.

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, December 31, 2016 7:48 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWJjNDVkZGItYWYyZi00M2I0LWEzOWEtZTdmOTRhN2ExNzExL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

As previously seen in Salt & Pepper (1968).

dead link up top to the 1974 classic Cockfighter also released as Born to Kill

http://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzY2MDYwOGUtNDM0Ny00NDc5LWE0Y2ItNDQzOTMzMTU5MzE0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_.jpg
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/borntokillposter.jpg

I didn't know Jerry Lewis actually did a movie in France

https://pics.filmaffinity.com/To_Catch_a_Cop-152350133-mmed.jpg

To Catch A Cop/The Defective Detective, 1984

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hkYo7RolL._AC_.jpg

Slapstick Of Another Kind, 1982

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71-AwHEc-sL._RI_.jpg

Where Is Parsi?/Where Is Parsifal?, 1984

Salt & Pepper is great. We really should have had the intern do a complete audit of Davis seven years ago.

RIP Christopher Plummer

https://images.static-bluray.com/products/20/13298_1_large.jpg

The Boss' Wife, 1984

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU3MGZjODYtMmVkNS00OGEzLTg1NjYtNzc0MDA5NzI2N2ViXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_.jpg

Where The Heart Is, 1990

Arielle Dombasle was in a lot more movies than I thought.

Going back briefly to the film/sitcom discussion upthread, I knew there was something big we'd missed, and while reading something else I realized what it was.

There were 2-TWO!-McHale's Navy feature films made during the series' run.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmY5OGE0M2QtY2E2OC00NmJiLWE4YTEtZTFmY2EzYTdjOGI0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTY5Nzc4MDY@._V1_.jpg

McHale's Navy, 1964

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmFlNDczMWItMWMzYy00OGMzLWIwZTYtNTcxZjkyNTZkYmI2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTY5Nzc4MDY@._V1_UY1200_CR65,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

McHale's Navy Joins The Air Force, 1965

The latter of which happened sans McHale (Ernie Borgnine).

great find.

"The Boss' Wife""s decision to opt against the final S is driving me crazy

1986 Money Pit variant poster doing a lot
http://www.joblo.com/assets/images/oldsite/posters/images/full/1986-the-money-pit-poster1.jpg

Long & Hanks photo is infuriating. get out of the way, clowns!

Great work on recovering McHale, suppressed in your memory as well as public distribution.

The film was released to VHS on March 31, 1998

https://i.imgur.com/KXafAgq.jpg

The Very Sexy Movie With The Very Funny Title, 1968

(A Flea In Her Ear)

i wonder if that title was funnier back then

The play is from 1904 so it had already stood the test of time

It doesn't *look* very sexy?

uh, those hats are doffed af

Rex Harrison and Rachel Roberts, no doubt a car crash of a production.

OMG

can't find a better image of

https://i.imgur.com/zKju7Vv.jpg

Rockets Galore, 1958

however!

https://i.imgur.com/KsylXqN.jpg


click for hueg

and

https://i.imgur.com/EDTyIAQ.jpg

https://eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Breaking-News-in-Yuba-County-poster.jpg

Breaking News In Yuba County, 2021

maybe it's the pixels but that looks like a novel combination of techniques/styles --- claustrophobic composition but almost like a 1960s paperback cover aesthetic? like a Tom Swift/Nancy Drew look.

looks more like the 1980s montage style but painted digitally to me

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/donald-trump-joe-biden-election.jpg

[From Time article linked in the US pol thread]

http://spiritualbolshevik.cocolog-nifty.com/ftaposter.jpg

F.T.A. (1971)

i would likely live a better life if, everywhere I went, I opened all my conversations with "WHAM! BAM! HERE COMES PAM!"

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:57 AM (one month ago)

cover connections?

https://i.imgur.com/hveUScS.jpg

Good Neighbor Sam, 1964

(hueg)

This version of Cold Turkey (1971) has linkrotted upthread afaict:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x9mov3JrQSY/UXgd9sSDCYI/AAAAAAAAU9Y/Cnir84rATYg/s1600/111443.1020.A.jpg

good job on the tagline connection!

That must have been one of Randy Newman’s first scores.

Was wondering

From what I remember, it's less a score than "He Gives Us All His Love" popping up repeatedly on the soundtrack.

looks like!

an alternate Uptown Saturday Night poster that may or may not have been posted and vanished earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/EARoF8M.jpg

another version with bottom detail

Speaking of bottom detail, why not appreciate 1959's Please Turn Over

sadly I cna't find a better copy of this even better variation

they don't get much busier than... "BRANNIGAN!" (1975)

https://i.imgur.com/kg64Amq.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WBN6S7Q4L.jpg

The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag, 1992

"What A Pullquote!"

Even the apparently official blurb for the DVD opens Penelope Ann Miller's delightful performance as the shy, part-time librarian Betty Lou Perkins is the saving grace of this comedy from Touchstone Pictures. Allan Moyle though, I'd give it a watch.

gotta say that the actual movie poster does a much better job of selling it than the VHS cover above.

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/svdDKiQnBFj8tsgN7fXlKqHpjUk.jpg

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang (1979)

leader of the hotwire gang is really not that into this, it seems

Producer to poster artist: "Makes sure them nipples is VISIBLE"

linkrotted upthread:

80s All Over continues to deliver the goods:

Take This Job and Shove It (1981)

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 7, 2017 12:30 AM (three years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/iU5e0WS.jpg

meanwhile i'm continuing my long-abandoned project of spreadsheeting all these movies, with taglines and dates. probably redundant to cryptosicko's Letterboxd list but it's something i started ages ago so... hey.

anyway one thing that struck me, cataloguing taglines, is how many of these posters, especially in the post-Animal House era, lean on calling out other, better films by name, e.g. What "Stripes" did to the Army, What "Police Academy" did to law enforcement... These guys do to scouting! for "The Wrong Guys," or that attempt by "Take This Job and Shove It" to suggest Hays's presence means you're in for something somehow descended from or connected to Airplane! can't recall seeing that kind of naked credibility-grabbing in more recent years - did the big studios crack down at some point, maybe secure a legal precedent that invoking their films was intended to mislead the audience about who made the films or something?

another running theme, apparently a wackiness signifier: really precise numbers, as where the town in "Cold Turkey" has 4,006 people trying to quit smoking and collect the cash prize, or where the dollar amount at stake in The Fortune Cookie is $249,000.92.

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 7, 2017 3:35 AM (three years ago)