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

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

xpost i think also date-night movies for the square, Silent Majority boomers?

More like AIP!

VG

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

Fastner & Larson art btw, definitely look like Kurtzman gags though

Those Peter Sellers movies, ones like "Mrs. Pollifax-Spy" or "The Secret of My Success", may have been the high-brow "low-brow" movies of their day. While the Boomer teens saw the latest Elvis movie, I picture the 40something parents putting on coat and tie, nice earrings and hat, and going out for a bit of fun to see an "adult" movie before heading over to Sam's Diner on the way home for a cup of coffee.

boomer teens were going to elvis movies in the early 70s?

I was thinking these were from 1965-68 or so!

Again, this is just what's happening in my head, maybe not IRL.

tbh i didn't realize until just now looking it up that Elvis was still starring in narrative features up until '69, so i think generally your theory could totally work for a lot of the dorky MOR-looking 60s comedies itt!

I don't think in 1969 anybody was going to see Charro! or Change of Habit.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjYyODBhZjctZTVjOS00YTljLTlkZDYtYzg5ZDAyOGUzYjI0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg

Spanish Fly (1976)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWQxNTRiYzEtMTNiNC00MWUwLTg1NTMtOTI1MmFiNzA1MmQzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjc1NTYyMjg@._V1_.jpg

Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

they just never end!

lol

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1057/4964/products/north-dallas-forty-vintage-movie-poster-original-1-sheet-27x41-621.jpg?v=1535065898

North Dallas Forty, 1979

Clearly the best hope for the movie industry to recover is to ban photographic or photoshopped posters

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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

https://i0.wp.com/blog.filmfile.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/THE-FOUR-MUSKETEERS-11.jpg?zoom=2&resize=800%2C445

The Four Musketeers (1974)