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

https://i.imgur.com/MaBeK7R.jpg

Strange Brew (1983)

(large / hueg)

woah, never seen that version. very nice.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTU5OTg0YmYtNWVkMy00MGZhLTg1YzItZDc1ZGI0MWU4MmM5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_FMjpg_UY842_.jpg

The Billion Dollar Hobo (1977)

Bo and Hobo? In this economy?

Grand Theft Auto, 1977

― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Monday, August 17, 2020 1:29 PM (seven months ago)

Corman traded Ron Howard the permission to write and direct this for his acting in

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

Eat My Dust! (1976)

used in various tinted versions for daybills and trade mags

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

https://i.imgur.com/Oj8JdOV.jpg

bring back lobby cards and ban trailers imo

aka

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

Gib Gas

et

https://i.imgur.com/Ht6oVS5.jpg

Mords Ma Poussière / Vreet Mijn Stof

(en gros)

and just because it's cool, here's GTA's appearance on that distributor's trade mag:

https://i.imgur.com/2b96Gvs.jpg

(sorry, juggling too many BBcodes: "Gib Gas... und laßt euch nicht erwischen" is Grand Theft Auto, obv)

6400 in corpus christi you say, sign me up

in three days from two theatres with rooves!

"A Very Funny Car"

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Car

presumably the top-billed ex-Bond players all do a single day's work in one room each, like modern DTV Bruce Willis and Steven Seagal

― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, September 14, 2020 7:19 AM (six months ago)

BTW here's a fantastic deep dive into how these films are the brainchild of the IRL Turtle from Entourage, Mark Wahlberg's former assistant who apparently stays barely ahead of various quantities of Russian drug money he's laundering, by giving out bit parts when his body parts come under threat.

I never knew that's where the MST3K frequent line "...pops the clutch and tells the world to eat his dust!" was from...

Elaine May's A New Leaf had two excellent posters.

The German poster is also pretty good.

The German VHS label knew that a movie is not funny unless it has a busy / caricature image on the front.

("No-one murders as badly as I!")

such a wonderful and weird film. was listening to the Blank Check ep on it this week and daydreaming about the original 3-hour cut being someday found and released, and who i would try to cajole into going with me.

and all great posters. the one that's claustrophobic with words was, iirc, also basically the script for one of the trailers....which consequently had basically no room to say or show anything of the movie they were actually promoting.

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.