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

It showed up all proper-like on my phone! Anyway...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODY2NGJhMjktYTFhMC00NTMwLTlkNWMtNGZmNzNlMTFhNWRiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/Hex_%281973%29_poster.jpg

did Weekend At Bernie's rip off Rip Torn

"scare the hex out of you" is a real dad pun

it'll be more claustrophobic once they get busy

https://i.imgur.com/SfX9d2A.jpg

Group Marriage, 1973

(also hueg)

^ more from one crowded year in the oeuvre of writer and director Stephanie Rothman:

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

Terminal Island, 1973

https://i.imgur.com/gK2fSiJ.jpeg

Beyond Atlantis, 1973

(she only has a story credit on this: when John Wayne's son was cast in the lead, he insisted that the underwater tits be written out. no idea if the two facts are related.)

https://i.imgur.com/KvDU2UR.jpeg

The Working Girls, 1974

https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/2/Open/AMG_EU_644/Program/19940/_derived_jpg_q90_500x500_m0/19940_PA_2-3The-Trouble-wit.jpg

The Trouble With Spies, 1987

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Maxie_--_movie_poster.jpg

Maxie, 1985

COVER CONNECTIONS

https://i.imgur.com/AqJ9K5Y.jpeg

Ebony, Ivory & Jade, 1976

(posted by crypto last year)

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

Black Shampoo, 1976

While we're bringing the hits back, two of these were posted by soref in 2018, but to get them teamed up with a (sadly watermarked) third:

https://i.imgur.com/bdum8v6.jpeg

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

https://i.imgur.com/Bfj0Ksj.jpeg

Not Now Darling, from the stage play "Not Now Darling"

Ray Cooney as "Crotch"

What on earth is being skipped in those pullquote ellipses?

lol

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWNhZGY5NWUtMzc0Yi00YTQzLWI5YzEtZTMzMWZmOTNmZTQwXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTA0MjU0Ng@@._V1_.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/The_Ritz_1976.jpg/220px-The_Ritz_1976.jpg

The Ritz, 1976

even more claustrophobic:

https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/JamieF-EW/ritz-cinema-quad-movie-poster-(1).jpg

better view of the Hirschfeld on the VHS poster:

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/newsite/movies/1970s/1976/reg/ritz_vid.jpg

Speaking of baffling punctuation in pullquotes:

https://i.imgur.com/zhc9hF0.jpeg

The Doberman Gang, 1972.

hahahahaha

entertainment for exciting families only

Is your family STAID and BORING? Would they be SHOCKED to see a MAN TORN APART by TRAINED DOGS beneath a PEACH-LIKE ASS in TIGHT PEACH HIPSTERS? Then STAY AWAY from THE DOBERMAN GANG, lame-o!

Rated PG.

Folks were hardier back then.

They toned things down for the sequel, presumably to make it more accessible.

https://i.imgur.com/kCxA1ik.jpeg

(The Daring Dobermans, 1973)

tbqh i was not really expecting the dobermans to be running for office

maybe they do that in the first one

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

In 1976, one of two posters leaned away from both (human) caricature and carnage, in order to focus more heavily on amazing doberman action.

https://i.imgur.com/d0B86qh.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/vU4TDmN.jpeg

Evidently this didn't work, as they re-released it two years later under a new title that disregarded dogs completely.

These doberman movies are fucking me up. It was doberman mania in the 70s I guess.

there was a tv movie sequel as well!

oddly this franchise never quite seemed to win over americans' hearts like Benji.

four flicks ain't bad tbh

plus from C.H.O.M.P.S upthread

'(Joe) Barbera recalled that (Z.) Arkoff's son Louis suggested that rather than a Doberman, the dog would have to be a non-threatening dog in the Benji mold. Barbera attributes this change in focus in the story to the film's lackluster performance at the box office. In his autobiography, Barbera wrote that the film "did okay... but it never made the splash it should have." Because of this, the future film deals between Hanna-Barbera and AIP were canceled.'

Also from wikipedia, it was originally released as a PG film in American summer, then edited for dog profanity and reissued as a G at Christmas.

No way am I not taking that new-DN bait.

Better still...

Ok, I'm in.

https://i.imgur.com/JoXN3QL.jpg

The dogs look much friendlier there than on the posters

Fred Astaire: can't sing, can't act, can dance a little hold on to three dobermans.

does anybody remember laughter?

https://i.imgur.com/5JQ4JMp.jpg

Please Sir!, 1971

(full movie)

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

Father, Dear Father, 1973

https://i.imgur.com/uhF4tAa.jpg

Love Thy Neighbour, 1973

before we leave Dobermania behind, i just want to note my disapproval of the spelling on the blurb for The Daring Dobermans, declaring "the hip-est heist in history."

sorry Doc, get on the bus or get left behind!!

https://i.imgur.com/3Wi8p6H.jpg

On The Buses, 1971

https://i.imgur.com/iwT3xvU.jpg

Mutiny On The Buses, 1972

https://i.imgur.com/5nCsS9n.jpg

Holiday On The Buses, 1973. Great variation on the theme here tbh.

The artist clearly used the same photo ref for Blakey on both caricatures. Also, bring back age ratings as genial as that on Mutiny imo.

NB that the first On The Buses film was cracked out in between a 13-episode Series 4 and a 15-episode Series 5, in 13 months. The two creator/writer/producers finally got a bit peaked and had another pair write the last two episodes. The next series started seven weeks later and ran seven eps, all written by those guests and another two-man team; the second film was out two months after that, less than a year after the first. 35 eps and two hit feature films in twenty months total. (Probably twenty laughs total across the lot of 'em.)

while we're riding, here's a clearer version of The Big Bus than previously posted itt

https://i2.wp.com/moviesandmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rottweiler-dogs-of-hell-1982-greek-vhs-cover.jpg?resize=308%2C505&ssl=1

Wow, between the doberman and bus cinematic universes this has been a banner day for you, sic, and for this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z82WA-Xk408

Now that's what I call a DOG Day Afternoon!

Rising Damp: The Movie (1980)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/%22Rising_Damp%22_%28film%29.jpg

Porridge (1979)
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/716J11VLyqL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

wow can't believe both those can't miss titles had never been used before - obvious box-office magnets both

I am all for a thread on the shitty, pointless movie versions of classic British sitcoms tbh. Were there any that were any good? Not sure I can face Rising Damp without Richard Beckinsale, and I'm sure all suffer for the lack of a laugh track.

Would rep for the Porridge movie, was on just before Christmas and despite it’s extended length didn’t waste any of it.

Can’t say I’ve seen Rising Damp, but yes, no Beckinsale must affec5 it.