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

That "Loved One" poster is one of the least offensive posters on this thread.

http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/hartley/hartley/b25.jpg

Improper Channels, 1981

We've had that one, because I remember posting the very incongruous to that artwork plot summary from IMDB:

Improper Channels (1981)

A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child abuse. Child welfare agencies commit grossly unfair over-reactions to remove the child forcibly from the Father (Arkin), who must brave the arcane system to reclaim his daughter.

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

er no wait. should be:

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

https://ionetheurbandaily.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/schooldance_1sheet_r6.jpg

School Dance, 2014

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/uMOiXuIdHaqbbtim6XaO1FbDoPo.jpg

The Wild Geese, 1978

rarely have so few furrowed their brows so much for so little

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/4YesByBRjRqwyVWL8eF9KFNevgC.jpg

Jaguar Lives!, 1979

pretty good cast in that one!

Yeah, interesting

especially for AIP! 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

According to imdb, it was all shot in Spain, so perhaps the producers (presumably not AIP, as this reeks of a pickup) gave out a lot of free vacations?

Jaguar was an attempt to turn Joe Lewis into the next Chuck Norris. Lewis had a stronger background as a karate tournament fighter and kickboxer, but it turned out he wasn't as good an actor as Chuck.

Double feature!

https://i.imgur.com/O7TTBop.jpg

remarkably poorly drawn gun hands in that Speedtrap poster.

Tyne Daly really made her mark as the other half of a police partnership, didn't she.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmVjMTRmYmQtODMwMS00ZTE0LWFhNDctN2I2OTcyOTE3ZDVkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_.jpg

Fire Sale (1977)

The depiction of Byron Stewart at center bears essentially no resemblance to him, and appears to be just a racist caricature. I suspect someone told the artist about his subplot - Arkin is a basketball coach who adopts a 6'8" Black orphaned teen to win games - and went "got it, black guy!" Ugh.

suspect someone told the artist

looks like Will Elder

"Hmm, I wonder what o_O subplot the black character is involved in"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Sale_(film)

The low self-esteemed Russell wants to expand the store and marry his girlfriend, while Ezra needs money to adopt an orphaned 6'8" African-American teenage boy named Booker T (Byron Stewart). Ezra needs Booker T. to play on the high-school basketball team he coaches because he has won a total of two games in seven years as a coach and is in danger of losing his job.

Who did the poster? It looks vaguely like the kind of thing Harvey Kurtzman was doing with Will Elder in his later days at Mad

:( killfiled

props to school dance for gettin the classic poster art style pretty close in 2014.

a better effort than most.

hahaha sorry sic missed your post I think it may have been in the xpost when I had to repost my post. I did think my suggestion would probably fire up the sic-signal

Ah Will Elder signed it, along the very well drawn/painted nutshell

I kind of want to watch School Dance now. Katt Williams!

directed by nick cannon

part of the cannon canon

along the very well drawn/painted nutshell

oh, good spot - couldn't see that on phone

presumably he got the call because Jack Davis was doing four other posters that month

Drew Friedman on Elder's work for movies and tv.

Little Annie Fanny All-Stars

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:57 AM (six years ago)

speaking of, here are some Frazettas that are now broken links or never made it onto the thread (according to ctrl+f)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n9dA15KjvbE/TwhmWvyriUI/AAAAAAAABuM/uVQmekqVs4U/s1600/What%2527s+new+1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FCCv_nb22I8/Twhmo0ZIOyI/AAAAAAAABuc/9KC0K-n0MOo/s1600/What%2527s+new+2.jpg

What's New Pussycat

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vgONyFHZoxU/Twhm8Fk4euI/AAAAAAAABus/JBNu2Ka0PlI/s1600/after+the+fox+large.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P2rkt5YDsA8/TwhnC8W-hEI/AAAAAAAABu0/iIfZxiPS0O8/s1600/after+the+fox+2+large.jpg

After The Fox

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g5L8vtcIdxI/VWR2JojAe_I/AAAAAAAAMo0/OJfBtmt6yU0/s1600/mad-monster-party-1.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iPeHSFVRyMo/Twhn07iGJbI/AAAAAAAABvs/mwuaBP24C9I/s1600/mad+monster+party.jpg

Mad Monster Party (1967)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DdnFwdUL2Q8/XzspXBB8XFI/AAAAAAAAOoU/h37j1xkgMjQRSiF59hPK19iZRTIP-0tnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ff-paradiso-1966.jpg

Hotel Paradiso (1966)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d_ndzQjjvjU/XzspXhH5fsI/AAAAAAAAOoY/KXmt7N3Ac6o3jipP6XlGleVl8VOFL0rKACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ff-polifax-1971.jpg

Mrs Pollifax - Spy (1971)

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tjGs31AGV80/XzspYCaVxGI/AAAAAAAAOoc/JfmmvFh7Ttcx03NyTyc0evR5qXdli4bSACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ff-success-1965.jpg

The Secret of My Success or: How Three Beautiful Girls Love for Fun—and Murder for Profit (1965)


slightly more sedate:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EML_o_GrDyQ/XzspYIn5crI/AAAAAAAAOog/Galr5KdIpz8I3MPTKrANutRfnNjq-cftACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ff-yours-1968.jpg

Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

The Busy Body (1967, based on one of Donald Westlake's first overtly comedic crime novels)

The Busy Body is top-notch. Taking so much attention for granted! I wish subway ads gave you as much to look at.

― here i am in the land of large breakfasts (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, June 23, 2015 12:50 AM (five years ago)

try this one instead:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4cW6Uwxn0E/UNtUVN3_93I/AAAAAAAAPBI/Ct2k-97qzYo/s1600/busy_body_xlg.jpg

alternate copy on the half-sheet

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

Mad Monster Party co-written by Harvey Kurtzman to nicely close the circle.

BTW, excellent spot on the Kurtzman involvement in that Fire Sale poster, stevie.

Davis too apparently

"mad monster party" apparently trying to pre-empt MAD magazine's spoof by using their exact typeface/bolding.

― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Thursday, February 11, 2016 11:30 PM (four years ago)

Mad Monster Party? wasn't official MAD but had ties - Harvey Kurtzman co-wrote the script and Jack Davis did character design.

― saki, Friday, February 12, 2016 1:25 AM (four years ago)

Thanks for the Friedman link, visiting - the last few TV Guide pieces look very much like the "WEHK"-signed mid-'80s stuff that stevie was remembering

BTW, excellent spot on the Kurtzman involvement in that Fire Sale poster, stevie.

Thanks Ward!

Though I think it was just Will Elder...

This is what Friedman says about it on that link visiting posted:

This time In collaboration with Kurtzman, Elder's second film poster, from 1977

Ah right, was only looking at the lovely pix on that link, and hadn't spotted any trademark WEHK signature.

I guess Kurtzman did the initial layout design and then WE painted it - predates the WEHK signed stuff by a few years, maybe they only used that for Mad?

Nuts! may have also had some WEHK-signed stuff, the covers had the same sort of look iirc

Rosalind Russell in that spy picture ?? Literally 30 years after her peak!

They way they drew women on movie posters from like 1965 to 1989 is like America's hentai

I'm repeatedly baffled that all of these movies exist. Part of me still thinks they are being spit out by an AI

we're living in a simulation, so...

Always think about the middle-aged Silent Generation couple dressing up and getting a sitter so they can go see the latest Peter Sellers movie.

Part of me still thinks they are being spit out by an AI