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

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzg0MWNlYWQtNzFlOS00NmIyLThkNTMtNDE5OTBkMTA3ZDM0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzQwNDk2ODM@._V1_UY1200_CR80,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg
Viva Max!

"Rated 'G' For 'G'reat Entertainment"

big clear version

We could just audit the thread thoroughly for any Jack Davis posters not already covered, but it's too much fun to have them still turn up, often on completely-forgotten-to-history movies, several times a year.

...then again we can forget them easily enough even when they have been posted

Viva Max!(1969

― Bernie Sanders Give You So Much Bro (Doctor Casino), Saturday, March 5, 2016 6:15 AM (five years ago)

great find. and very design-y for Davis! wonder if it was from some art director's concept.

― glandular lansbury (sic), Saturday, March 5, 2016 3:02 PM (five years ago)

I guess I was reacting to the symmetry?

and on Finders Keepers:

now i'm wondering if it's been posted before. i swear i control-F'ed first, but those roller derby women look familiar.

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, October 10, 2020 8:30 AM (five months ago)

and

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.

― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Friday, May 20, 2016 3:40 PM (four years ago)

ok lol at the telltale detail of the roller derby representation

also behold the sad history of my display-name game

sorry about the viva max! repost. i usually take a few moments to scroll through the hidden past before i post these!

no worries, I meant to note it's linkrotted from back then!

That eat my dust poster used to hang in my local breakfast joint!

The Villain, a Hal Needham live-action version of Wile E. Coyote, was very poorly reviewed in 1979.

https://i.imgur.com/f520LOw.jpg

This may or may not be why it was rebranded as Cactus Jack and given a Jack Davis poster for Australian release.

https://i.imgur.com/ATVwx9u.jpg

(the latter has linkrotted from three years ago. as they say, hueg villain, [url=https://i.imgur.com/A15blSt.jpg]hueg cactus.)

cactus jack Davis poster is an amazing relic of a thankfully lost age, dang davis was good at that stuff

you can't fault his attention to detail: he even got freckles in Ann-Margret's cleavage.

somehow made schwarzenegger entirely recognizable in a cowboy costume without overdoing any element of his signature look

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervan_(film)#/media/File:Supervan-film-poster.jpg

Grisso posted a Hannibal Brooks poster a while ago, but the Winner/Reed/Clement/LaFrenais joint had multiple variations and foreign alts. This is the best one, imo, and tragically this seems to be the largest version on the internet:

https://i.imgur.com/JUaClSO.jpeg

larger version found on ebay

there are loads of that SUPERSOLDIER IN THE SUPER ADVENTURE! variation :) there's a vertical left-justified of the "I'm the hero" one that doesn't work as well, plus this one, which is a good-but-not-as-good take on the joke and cuts off more of the image.

Loved that movie as a kid. I'm guessing it's not good.

Richard Lester's How I Won The War (1967) poster was so claustrophobic that it crammed its two lead soldiers into one tin pan hat

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

hueg

For some reason, the French didn't care about Crawford, the young star of two of Lester's previous four films, and decided to focus on his colleague, who'd merely been an ensemble lead in the other two.

https://i.imgur.com/mzvs3rP.jpg

hueg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/710a8YfSXcL._AC_SY550_.jpg

Dear Brigette, 1965

^^hueg

Stewart in a Cinemascope screwball seems so promising, but him in anything post-1959 is a warning - and the wiki is larded with quotes from the co-screenwriter about how poorly-conceived the project was from option to premiere.

Speaking of Jimmy...

https://www.limitedruns.com/media/cache/83/9c/839c37ee19937a99a1c616362114ad2f.jpg

The Magic of Lassie, 1978

RIP Richard Rush

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREfr0UjB3eBnrlkAyhEeotctEsnKryNapYo1_SAoA8gwEiPuE5HnOBiBwHl-zQvxjFFzutv9CX&usqp=CAc

Psych-Out, 1968

https://mikestakeonthemovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/freebie-poster.jpg

hueg VHS cover

Freebie and The Bean, 1974

The paperback was posted above the fold by me (now linkrotted) and uses the caricature element from the poster

oh man those are both great, plus the VHS

here's a huge Psych-Out and a completely different painting in the same layout for Spanish release

all of the styles in The Magic of Lassie poster, but especially the simpler line drawing people just above the title, were ubiquitous in my childhood, especially in children's readers assembled between, oh, 69-82... they need names and coffee table books.

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

Young Americans (1967), the only film to ever have an Oscar rescinded

(the titular choir were found to be lip-syncing test screenings in one theatre in North Carolina were deemed to count as a release in the previous year)

larger

the horizontal version is better but you are looking at the largest version that appears to exist on the internet:

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

the Danny Cannon / David Arnold / Harvey Keitel remake took substantial liberties with the plot iirc

Doc dropped the first Morecambe & Wise film four years ago, with some classic big-head-little-body action, but they were just getting started.

https://i.imgur.com/ikg16B1.jpeg

That Riviera Touch (1966)

(a little larger)

vertical version, clearer colours

alt version:

https://i.imgur.com/WyqaC7a.jpeg

(alt hueg)

other takes on the alt

more info: http://www.artofdiving.co.uk/2016/04/two-of-kind-that-riviera-touch.html

Their one-a-year film career dried up after

https://i.imgur.com/IDwvoiV.jpeg

The Magnificent Two (1967)

which sadly doesn't seem to exist larger. here's a three-colour version that looks great (but is just as small)

And this poster with an alternate title looks like an Italian adaptation of The Spirit

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lol wow, that's great.

i recognize Fawcett, Savalas, Streisand, Allen, Hope, Coburn, Montalban... not sure about the others. I suppose the blonde with the big hair has to be Dolly Parton though it's not a great drawing. maybe Peter Lorre? Lucille Ball? Fred Astaire? Not sure about the others.

lee marvin in the middle?

I think the Peter Lorre-looking one might be Jackie Gleason?

Sammy Davis Jr?
Gene Kelly top left?

oh yeah, Marvin, not Coburn. had considered Davis and Kelly but wasn't sure.

i'd say:
kelly, montalban, astaire, streisand, savalas
fawcett, Marvin, Davis Jr
Hope, Parton, Allen, Gleason, Ball

excellent work! now we just need to try all the recipes.

Can't speak to Kelly, and couldn't get Montalban on my own, but that looks right to me

(agreed that it's a terrible Dolly, if Dolly it be)

xp

now we just need to try all the recipes.

"John Cassavetes Minted Beef Balls"

what's yr take on
minted beef balls

https://c1.neweggimages.com/ProductImage/A1S7_1_201806241657230054.jpg

Unbeatable Harold, 2006/9

beatable

zoomed in on the signature:

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

Grandma's Boy

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Saturday, October 26, 2013 7:35 AM (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/QW5Ss8f.jpg

(2006, man-sized)

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

detroit rock city?

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:18 AM (seven years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/n9Pmesn.jpg

(space-man-sized)

Another throwback:

https://i.imgur.com/e3k9VOs.jpg

Chillerama (2011)

(big chill)

one of a few alts:

https://i.imgur.com/bnM1FST.jpg

(chilleramascope)

A remake throwback in reference to the JD og

https://i.imgur.com/IVySG28.jpg

Bad News Reboot (2005)

(big bears - doin' thang)

Adapting the style for

https://i.imgur.com/m0biu7C.jpg

The Last Shot (2004)

The plot of The Last Shot is loosely based on the true story of an FBI sting operation code-named Dramex. Dramex was run by FBI agent Garland Schweickhardt, who recruited aspiring screenwriters Dan Lewk and Gary Levy to participate unwittingly in a sting operation aimed at ensnaring mobsters and Teamsters union officials in a bribery scheme. Under the pretext of producing a movie, the FBI planned to catch people taking bribes in exchange for promising not to make trouble when filmmakers used non-union truck drivers and non-union crew members.

Shooting actually occurred in several cities including New Orleans and Las Vegas, while in other major cities, evidence was obtained without using an actual crew made up of FBI personnel. As the investigation progressed from city to city, sealed indictments were obtained and only unsealed when the operation was concluded. Many actual events happened during the shooting that were more hilarious than the movie portrays. At one point, the crew was stranded in the desert between LA and Las Vegas by a broken down Rolls Royce.

Arriving at the location in Las Vegas, they found a genuine crew already there shooting Nasty Boys (Which, ironically, was about undercover police officers). The grip truck ran into an elderly lady's car the first day of shooting in New Orleans and the crew wound up paying off the woman with hundreds peeled from a roll of bills. The operation eventually led to indictments against five individuals, several of whom were convicted. The movie itself was shut down before serious filming started.

Lewk and Levy have yet to make a full-length feature film. They were, however, associate producers on The Last Shot and had cameo roles as 'Hollywood Boulevard Types'.

(big shot)

Also responsible for Hot Dog ...The Movie, The Trouble With Spies, and likewise from the tail-end of the original run of the style

https://i.imgur.com/3RsMJnk.jpg

Hamburger (The Motion Picture) (ooh la la) (1986) (written and directed by the writer of Hot Dog)

(whopper)

wait, directed, not written? had the man not earned his stripes

wait again

https://i.imgur.com/PKb3jLR.jpg

Stripes (1981)

(large ordinance)

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/dgFqQEaBTz4hQJLIU7FddrYkOCx.jpg

Moving Violations (1985)

Another throwback that would have been better off fully committing:

https://i.imgur.com/YzyVBA3.jpg

Vice Principals (2016)

(pitched and unsold by Jody Hill and Danny McBride as a movie, sold instead to HBO and made as an eighteen-part serial. take that, Twin Peaks!)

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/wr5i0gSVPm3GY5mCteO3qreDlvl.jpg

Student Affairs (1987)

fuzzy but it looks a bit like will elder in little annie fannie style?

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0057/3728/3618/products/4b752a84f018c697d27559350d3baa0d_93098d2a-48be-4bca-beff-0c2bd31bca8e_480x.progressive.jpg